By Rabbi Eliezer Waldman I am still severely shocked in the aftermath of the heinous massacre that took place in Mumbai last week. Despicable Muslim terrorists carried out a well-planned, deadly assault on civilian targets, killing hundreds of innocent people. Especially horrifying was the premeditated attack on the Chabad House established by Rabbi Gavriel and […]

By Nadia Matar January 15, 2004 Until a few days ago, we were skeptical about the actions of the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction in the Likud and its chances of exerting influence “from within,” but then Education Minister Limor Livnat came out with her frantic attack against “Feiglin,” and showed all of us that […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 27 November 2008 The Israeli Left ridicules the national camp, predicting that, should the national camp win the elections, the national camp leadership will end up embracing and implementing the Left’s program vis-à-vis Arab Israeli relations. And while they may be pushing this theme in order to discourage national camp supporters […]

by Naomi Ragen Flashbacks. After days of prayer and fear among Jews and good people everywhere, the horrible reality of the Islamic terrorist rampage in Mumbai was revealed in all its obscene and mindless savagery when members of Zaka entered the Perhaps it is impossible for the average human being to understand the depth of […]

by Richard M. Ebeling, September 2003 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (New York: Doubleday, 2003); 677 pages; $35. Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the tsarist regime had used the vast area that […]

Sep. 25, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Listening to the news in Israel these days, it is hard to escape the feeling that the Israeli political discourse has become dangerously irrelevant. Take Iran for example. On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the heads of UN member states, “The dignity, integrity and rights […]

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042008.html WASHINGTON – U.S. President George Bush believes that Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week. After Olmert updated Bush on Israel’s indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, […]

No, this is not correspondence from Shimon Peres to Manmohan Singh. It was actually written by Steven Plaut, an economist at the University of Haifa, as an approximation of what Peres would write to Singh if he were to encapsulate his own thinking on how Israel should deal with the Palestinians and extrapolate this to […]

By Louis Rene Beres In the Jewish tradition, the principle of a Higher Law is not only well established; it is the very foundation of all legal order. Whenever the law of the state stands in marked contrast to this principle, the secular law is rendered altogether null and void. In certain circumstances, such contrast […]

by Tamar Yonah (IsraelNN.com) What are the real borders of Israel and how should we relate to land give-aways? Howard Grief, author of the book, “The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law” was interviewed on Israel National Radio’s Weekend Edition and stated that Israel’s borders should legally be larger than they are […]