Spreading Falsifications About the Skali Farm

KIBBUTZNIKS IN SAMARIA The place: Skali's farm, an isolated settlement outpost in the heart of Samaria. The setting: A field strewn with alfalfa, olive groves and rocky hills. The event: A battle between the descendants of the...

Iran And The Holocaust:Cause For Concern

As a student of modern Jewish history and anti-Semitism, I have always tried to refrain from using the term "Holocaust" for rhetorical purposes. But this time, Holocaust Memorial Day is different, so it seems,...

Denying History

DENYING HISTORY, Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, DENYING HISTORY. U of california Press, Berkley, 2005. Forward by Arthur Hertzberg, who passed away last week. To explain why the holocaust never happened, here are some guidelines: Attack...

Remembering Arthur Hertzberg; A Man of Inquiry

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Hertzberg was my teacher 36 years ago when he was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University, when he taught a seminar on "philosophy of Jewish history", and stayed in touch...

Editorial in Palestinian Authority Official Publication, Following Bomb in Tel Aviv

I don't think, no, I am sure that the last Tel Aviv operation did not make any of Israel's leaders lose any sleep over it. They had previous knowledge of the possibility of it...

Disengagement Lessons: Flawed Pullout Predictions Should Make Olmert Rethink His Plan

Eight months after the withdrawal from Gaza, or what was referred to as a "unilateral disengagement," things are not developing according to the early scenario marketed to the public. Almost nothing has materialized in the...

Canada urged to push for changes to UNRWA

Canada has a unique opportunity to take the lead in pushing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to exclude Palestinian terrorists from its payroll and to adopt the same...

A Kassam missile Passover in the Negev

Worldwide media only fleetingly reports about the current Arab uprising in Gaza that has unleashed a hail of Kassam rockets against Israel. These projectiles currently have a range of up to 10 kilometers, putting at...

UNWRA refugee camps as artillery bases

The story is simple, touching and chilling: Children caught and killed in the crossfire of a terrible artillery duel. On Monday, April 10th, a little girl in the Arab village of Beit Lehiyah in Northen...

The State Comptroller is about to reveal a special report:: Olmert and His Close...

The complaint was filed in September 2004 by the Workers' Committee in the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism - The suspicion: Olmert and Director-General Dinur made forbidden political appointments and made use of...