Posted on: July 12th, 2006

As I carefully followed the news of the disengagement in Gush Katif last year, I ached for the loss of Israeli security, and for the homes, employment and lives that so many families were forced to give up. I felt connected as a Jew, but at the same time distant as a safe, content American.

Posted on: July 12th, 2006

The reaction to Israeli president Moshe Katsav's reported "snub" of Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, has almost uniformly focused on the propriety of Mr. Katsav's apparent refusal to address Mr. Yoffie as "rabbi" and on its implications for Israel-Diaspora relations. But what' s being missed is a bigger story, which is the failure of the Reform movement to create "facts on the ground" in Israel necessary to gain the attention and respect of Israel's leaders it so dearly craves.

Posted on: July 12th, 2006

Israel has no shortage of avowed detractors. It also has many genuinely avid supporters. Even more people and institutions claim to support Israel. But what does supporting Israel really mean?

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

Several readers responded to last week’s Monitor on the departure of Dan Rather from CBS News by making reference to Rather’s predecessor, the legendary Walter Cronkite, as some sort of paragon of journalistic objectivity. The Monitor begs to differ.

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

BellSouth and other telecommunications companies, including Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless and Nextel Sprint, are also defendants in the lawsuit, accused of turning over "records" (but not the contents) of millions of their customers' phone calls (which BellSouth denies doing).

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

What could I possibly say to this woman, who had lost all her family in the Holocaust, who married another Holocaust survivor, started a new chapter in Israel and gave birth to two sons - only to lose them as well as her husband, who died heartbroken after Issachar was killed?

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

Quick, take a fast current events quiz:

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

Humans Or Beasts?    Is this nation-in-waiting the world calls Palestine populated by humans or two-legged beasts? They abduct children off the street, as was the case with Eliyahu Asheri, who was summarily murdered. Then a senior citizen is abducted and brought over to the Palestinian side of the border.    Israel entered Gaza to free a […]

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

With steady Iranian nuclearization correctly at the forefront of world public attention, no country has more to fear than the State of Israel. Less than half the size of Lake Michigan, Israel fully understands that the Iranian president's incessant bluster about wiping the Jewish State "off the map" is far more than mere posturing. It is, rather, an unambiguous declaration of criminal intent to commit genocide.

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

Located just north of Warsaw on the Narew River, Pultusk is a small rural town described as being located on an island in the middle of a river.

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

July 7 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige. Leroy Paige was born in Mobile, Alabama, and as a teenager worked at the railroad station. Leroy's long arms were able to maneuver and hold several satchels at a time and folks started calling him by what he carried.

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

In late May, after months of debate and rancor, the largest academic union in Britain advised its members to boycott any Israeli academic who would not publicly disavow Israel's so-called apartheid policies. This meant, in effect, that any Israeli academic who did not subscribe to the political views of the National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education (NATHFE) could have been blacklisted and prevented from speaking or participating in conferences at British universities and being published by British academic journals.

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

June 29: This afternoon, Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri - son, brother, grandson, yeshiva student, friend - was buried on the Mount of Olives, the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world.

Posted on: July 4th, 2006

Back then, our parents and grandparents marched in freezing snow for hours in uniforms and plastic slippers - and survived.

Posted on: July 4th, 2006

Ann Coulter is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the current Godless: The Church of Liberalism.

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

Dan Rather is finally out at CBS News, nearly two years after his shoddy and discredited reporting – in the midst of a very tight presidential campaign – on President Bush’s National Guard service, and more than a decade after his CBS Evening News settled into last place among the network newscasts, where it’s remained ever since.

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

Divestment has been the cornerstone of a worldwide campaign to punish the Jewish state for the "sins" of "occupation."

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

Herzl was dead within a year, but his prophetic vision established him as the Father of modern Zionism.

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

Gordon endorses Finkelstein's opinions and theories about the Holocaust and Israel, and his articles praising Finkelstein are featured on countless anti-Semitic websites.

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

Not one word was used to correctly describe terrorist Samhadana; he could be just another civil servant doing his job, according to Time's reckoning.