U.S. Teen Recovering From Blast: Abbas’s Deputy Praises the Attack

Daniel Wultz, a 16 year old Florida teenager who was severely wounded in the April 19th Tel Aviv terror attack in which nine people were murdered, has woken up from a coma and officials...

The Million Person Gap: A Critical Look at Palestinian Demography

Executive Summary: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the...

Dov Weissglass to be Bezeq Chairman

Background on investigations of Dov Weissglass The Jericho Casino: Why the IDF Chief of Staff was Fired Disclosed: Weissglass Maintains His Business and Law Firm Rubbing Elbows with Arafat: Sharon's Top Advisor Represents "Business Interests" of the...

“I Have a Nightmare” – The Concern for the Fate of Darfur

Rabbi David Saperstein was one of the speakers who addressed the thousands amassed on the National Mall at the Rally for Darfur. Saperstein challenged American leaders, "Mr. President, Senators, and Representatives: We have gathered...

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...

Abbas Steers Clear Of Condemning Attack

Following Monday's Palestinian bombing in a Tel Aviv restaurant which resulted in the deaths of nine people, the media was rampant with the news of a "clear condemnation of the bombing from Palestinian Authority...

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...