What would have happened if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hadn’t been murdered? Would history have been altered? Not according to former IDF Intelligence chief and Labor Party frontbencher Amos Yadlin, who said the following last week. “He would have lost the elections in any event to Binyamin Netanyahu in ’96. The public atmosphere in the […]

A major uproar exploded across the political scene recently when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Conversely, there has been a remarkable, deafening silence on the official position proclaimed by Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas: “If there is an independent Palestinian state […]

Jerusalem Must Stay a United City Donald Trump’s wavering in response to a question about whether he would consider Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest city, the undivided capital of Israel brings to light Arab pressure to designate the eastern sector of the historic of the historic city as the capital of a future Palestinian state. As the […]

A major uproar exploded across the political scene recently when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Conversely, there has been a remarkable, deafening silence on the official position proclaimed by Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas: “If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its […]

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s proposed transparency law, which requires phony non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Israel to identify themselves as foreign-funded when they lobby in Israel’s Knesset, is needed, reasonable, and long overdue.   Although the term “non-governmental organization” is supposed to refer to groups that are not affiliated with, supported by, or acting on behalf […]

T he national president of the Zionist Organization of America is visiting local synagogues this weekend. Morton Klein is scheduled to spend a Shabbat weekend at Temple Menorah, 620 75th St. in Miami Beach, where on Jan. 8 he will speak in a talk titled, “The Lies Against Israel,” during a Shabbat dinner after the […]

Syrian immigrants pose a grave danger to all Americans – and especially to American Jews and gays.  Top Obama administration officials testified that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted. As FBI Director James Comey stated, “We can query our databases until the cows come home, but nothing will show up because we have no record […]

Anti-Semitism is practically as old as Jewish history. Over thousands of years, our ancestors suffered blood libels, inquisitions, expulsions, and pogroms, all leading up to the Holocaust, the ultimate tragedy in our history of persecution. And still today, the Jewish people continue to suffer from terror attacks in Israel around the world, vicious threats of […]

Syrian immigrants pose a grave danger to all Americans — and especially to American Jews and gays.   Top Obama administration officials testified that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted. As FBI Director James Comey stated, “We can query our databases until the cows come home, but nothing will show up because we have no record […]

Participants on Israel trips organized through Taglit-Birthright will no longer be able to visit the Western Wall on Shabbat due to security concerns connected to the wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks, The Jerusalem Post has learned.   Organizations running trips under the Birthright umbrella have been told they can no longer allow their participants to walk […]