Written By Ken Abramowitz 1. Jerusalem has been the capital city of the Jewish people (but no one else) for 3,000 years, including both ancient Israel and current Israel.  There were caliphates based in Medina, Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo--never in Jerusalem. 2. Jews lived in Jerusalem for 1,700 years before the Arab conquests in the Seventh century. ...

For us humans the number sixty-three describing our birthdays usually indicates the beginning of our retirement years. Our bodies no longer function with the vigor and efficiency that they did a few decades earlier. But in terms of historic longevity of nations and states, sixty-three years is not a long time at all.  So even...

By  Miranda JonesKibbutz Malkiyah and Nof Zion, JerusalemOne thing I couldn't stand during my four years at the University of Virginia was the anti-Israel sentiment I faced on a daily basis. Not that I walked around with a stamp on my forehead proclaiming my Zionism. All it took was the fact that I was Jewish, studied...

By Ari Harow As Jews around the world gather on Tuesday to lament the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the millennia of exile that ensued, it is important that we take a moment to contemplate why we continue to mourn even after all of these years. For the Jewish people, Jerusalem is not merely...

by Karam Mnashe, Charles Recknagel Few people in Iraq know what happened in Baghdad exactly 69 years ago. But on June 1-2, 1941, something previously unthinkable in the city occurred. Mobs attacked the capital's prosperous and influential Jewish community, killing more than 100 people and looting homes. By the time the orgy of murder and...

By Eric Hoffer, May 26, 1968 (In 1968 the LA times ran this article, written by Eric Hoffer, a former longshoreman and non-Jewish American social philosopher. Born in 1902, Hoffer died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Although written 38 years ago, the following is as timely and...

By MICHAEL FREUNDYesterday at 11 a.m., air raid sirens sounded across the country. Emergency crews went into position, security forces entered a heightened state of readiness and thousands of people made their way to public shelters. It was a chilling scene,  as schoolchildren were shepherded to safety, and the innocence of our nation's youth was...

Posted by Isi Liebler on May 12, 2010: Jerusalem, referred to over 600 times in the Bible, has represented the cornerstone of our Jewish identity for more than three millennia since it became the capital of King David's Israelite monarchy. It remained at the core of our spiritual longings following the second dispersion when for...

The following was submitted anonymously by someone who attended yesterday's rally: The Jewish Action Alliance organized a rally today, Sunday April 25, outside the Israel Consulate in New York. I was there on schedule at 1:00, and it began fairly promptly, at 1:15. The rally was not over when I had to leave, an hour...

Despite some requests, I have generally felt self-conscious about distributing my written impressions of life here in Israel.   Even after moving experiences last year on Yom HaZikaron and Yom Haatzmaut, I declined to share my feelings because I felt that they might have simply been influenced by the sheer novelty of the experience.  Having now...

We cannot and must not sit back and passively watch events unfold. Each of us has a role to play to ensure that Jerusalem is never divided again    On Saturday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad threw down the gauntlet. Speaking to Christian pilgrims during Easter celebrations in Bethlehem, he vowed that Israel's capital would be...

"Moderate" Palestinian Leadership Honours Mass Terrorism as Joe Biden Leaves Town. And the BBC's Response is? By Robin Sheperd So, let's just accept that Israel's handling of the Ramat Shlomo settlements announcement during US vice-president Joe Biden's recent visit was cack handed and self-defeating. Prime Minister Netanyahu has admitted as much by apologising. It was...

The Israel Test In Ten Questions By George Gilder 1) What does it mean to pass the Israel Test? You must admire and emulate those who surpass you in achievement and excellence rather than envying them and resenting them and trying to tear them down. 2) This is a moralism applying to everyone. Why do you focus...

By David Saranga "I really don't know whether we'll be printing The Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care, either. The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we're leading there." This comment from Arthur Sulzberger, owner, chairman, and publisher of The New York Times, is a profound reflection on...

Dr. Bradley Ruffle, Beer Sheva, Israel --  During Israel's war with Hamas, I frequently scanned online forums and discussion groups. Alarmed I was to discover the intensity of the anti-Israel sentiment. There are those who question the wisdom of Israel's operation and those who reflexivelyregurgitate the tired anti-Israel slogans, dusted off each time Israel...

By Professor Bradley Ruffle -- Beer Sheva, Israel In the war between Israel and Hamas, the battle for the hearts and minds of the world ought to be a slam-dunk victory for Israel. A free, multicultural, liberal society is pitted against a radical Islamic terrorist group bent on the extermination of all those who oppose...