What is it that woke folk smoke?

If truth be known woke folk don’t need to smoke anything in order to vilify Israel and by extension, Jews. Their knee jerk reactions to each and every action Israel takes to safeguard the lives...

Palestinian Arab children in cages?

As a journalist who has covered Palestinians who live in the UNRWA refugee camps since 1987, I have filed a cordial request of the Palestine Chroniicle to provide any kind of documentation to this...

We must stop the powerful use of words as inciteful education – opinion

Three weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau for the first time with March of the Living on Holocaust Remembrance Day. As I walked with Jews from the Diaspora and Israel,...

Hostile Press: The New York Times vs The State of Israel

It's almost embarrassingly easy to find headlines that reflect anti-Israeli bias in The New York Times. "At Least 2 Dead as Driver Rams Bus Stop in East Jerusalem", reads a laconic headline describing a deadly terror...

Serving in the IDF Reserves: The Meaning of True Friendship

There are special moments in a man's life that not only help define him but also leave him with memories of accomplishment and fulfillment. In my life of 46 years those moments have included:...

Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...

2014 could be even worse

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4481788,00.html In the year just gone, there was a noticeable decline in the Palestinian Authority's ability to maintain stability in the territory of Judea and Samaria, the annual report from Israel's Shin Bet internal security...

Eulogy by Dr. Yagil Henkin, Military Historian and Lecturer at the IDF Command and...

I want to tell you a little bit about Eitam. Eitam was a jokester. I know it's surprising to say this at a funeral, and all the more so, about a rabbi and scholar who was...

Media Advisory: No cease fire was reached in Gaza this week

As journalists cover the complexities of the Middle East reportage, news agencies often interpret a lull in hostilities as an "armistice" or a "cease-fire", which brings to mind to the agreement that led to...

My special connection to Mama Rachel

It all started from the time I was a little girl riding the bus back and forth from my hometown Efrat to Jerusalem and back. The days were pre Oslo Accords and the only...