Don’t Tread On This Burning Bush
If there is a hell, then you can bet that Sheikh Ahmed Yassin is roasting there now.
Lizhensk 2004: Invasion of a Polish Shtetl
It seemed as if Jews had to steal visits to their holy places while the rest of Poland slept.
Media Mythology and the Yassin Hit
Due to unavoidable circum-stances at deadline time, the Monitor turns the stage over this week to highlights of HonestReporting.com's analysis of the early media reaction to the killing by Israel of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin:
Will The Real John Kerry Please Stand Up?
Maybe Kerry is just hoping to keep the Republicans so off-balance and on the defensive that his own history will never emerge as a real campaign issue, not even his numerous votes against defense spending but for higher domestic spending with increased taxes?
A Liberal’s Wake-Up Call: A Response To Alan Dershowitz
Wake up, Mr. Dershowitz. Your liberalism offends my sensibilities because it assumes that everyone on the other side of the political road is infected with gullibility, whereas it is a sickness inherent on the Left.
A Personal Brush With Israel-Hatred
It wasn't only their words; it was the hatred in their eyes.
How And Why America’s Christians Must Care For Israel (Second Of Two Parts)
The Palestinians continue to speak of "occupied territories." They are joined by their civilized European allies whose traditional anti-Semitism is now reinvigorated by Arab/Islamic Jew hatred.
Zionism’s Greatest Achievement
In some ways it is a depressing period in Jewish history. The American Jewish Diaspora community, or at least the non-Orthodox bulk therein, is in the process of committing cultural/national/religious suicide.
Letters to the Editor
Responding To Alarm BellsMichael Freund's alarming op-ed of March 12 ("Anti-Semitism Not The Main Threat To Europe's Jews") is disturbing because what he describes...
Bluntly Speaking: A Conversation With A Veteran Of Israeli Diplomacy
Shamir was so hesitant to express himself publicly on important issues because he didn't want to slip in some kind of remark that might boomerang later.
Lessons From A Bus Bombing
Sunday morning, February 22, I arrived at work just in time to hear about the bus explosion in Jerusalem. Nervously, I waited for the...
Lunch With Straight-Shooting Richard Perle
I recently attended a luncheon lecture (courtesy of Benadore Associates) at the law offices of Milberg Weiss Bershad Haynes & Lerach LLP. I don't...
Lifted Out Of The Doldrums By Israel’s Younger Generation
I find the news increasingly distressing. A recent headline in the Jerusalem Post's "In Jerusalem" weekend supplement caught both my eye and my mood:...
Zo Hamedina Shelanu – This Is Our Country
"Zo hamedina shelanu," Osnat said to me as I bear hugged her, her sisters, her brother, her mother and her father. "This is our...
The Kulturkampf Of Avraham Poraz
In 1872 Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck launched a campaign to suppress the power of the Catholic Church in Germany. This struggle, subsequently dubbed...
Media For Kerry
Another week another clip file bulging with fresh examples of the media's accelerating campaign in support of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. In fact it's difficult to recall a presidential race where the media's liberal spin was both so blatant and so early in coming.
Media For Kerry
Another week, another clip file bulging with fresh examples of the media's accelerating campaign in support of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. In fact, it's difficult to recall a presidential race where the media's liberal spin was both so blatant and so early in coming.
How And Why America’s Christians Must Care For Israel (First Of Two Parts)
The Land and People of Israel are now in great peril. Day after day, hour after hour - almost minute by minute - Jewish men, women and children are fiendishly murdered by Arab terrorists.
Letters to the Editor
Hypocritical TimesJason Maoz's Media Monitor column, in exposing the unmitigated hypocrisy of the liberal press - most prominently The New York Times - is...
Flatbush Families Make It A Shabbos To Remember For Out-Of-Towners
Each year on Rosh Hashanah the Leventhals would take on a new mitzvah. They started with lighting candles on Friday night.
The Fine Israeli Art Of Krav Magoo
"Due to recent setbacks," he began, "we must take a radically new approach. For our model, I've chosen a small country that, like us, has had to fight against large and hostile rivals: Israel."
Strength And Reliability: Why I Support George W. Bush
There is a war being waged between Judeo-Christian civilization and Islamic fundamentalist tyranny.
Media-Manufactured Outrage
The Democrats and their lapdogs in the news media really do expect George W. Bush to campaign for reelection with one hand - possibly both hands - tied behind his back. Witness the largely media-manufactured outrage over the Bush ads that dared make reference to 9/11 - only, after all, a watershed in American history and the signature event of the Bush presidency.
A Million Dollar Dedication
The Yishuv community of Hashmonaim and Yeshivat Bnei Akiva "Ner Tamid" recently celebrated a beautiful Chanukat Habayit dedication of a million-dollar Beit Midrash.
Resisting Personhood: The Loneliness Of Cell Phone Addiction
One wonders, what are they talking ABOUT? With WHOM are they talking? WHY are they compelled to be SEEN on the phone? And why are they so undeniably eager that others overhear their conversation?
Back To Basics In Fighting Terror
It has become vogue in many circles to represent Middle East savagery as part of some sort of "war of civilizations."
Letters to the Editor
Father And SonI thoroughly enjoyed Avraham Shmuel Lewin's interview with Yair Shamir in last week's Jewish Press. At age 59, Mr. Shamir is still...
Timely Advice For The Prime Minister
If this ill-conceived plan is ever carried out it would serve as a most dangerous precedent bordering on committing national suicide.
Israel’s Passive Voice
A bomb on a Jerusalem bus kills eight Israelis. The government is passive. In less than three hours, the street has been cleaned, the bus removed.
Holy City, Holy People
The expression on the uplifted faces of those davening reflected what I suppose is sublime ecstasy, a transcendental and transfixed joy.