By Daniel Johnson “Jewish history teaches, if anything can, that there is a purpose to human existence and that we are not just born to live and die like beasts.” http: //www.jewishideasdaily. Read More »

By Daniel Goldschmidt. It hardly seems possible that a year has gone since last September 14th when I arrived as a new immigrant from the Midwestern United States. So much has happened this first year it seems as if I arrived only yesterday. I arrived in Israel full of expectations and hope for building [… Read More »

Children planting trees in the Biriya forest near Safed on Monday. Photo credit: Dror Artzi – Jini byDan Lavie and Itsik SabanTu B’Shevat, “birthday for the trees,” falls on Wednesday this year • Trees have already been planted in the Biriya forest near Safed and bulbs of protected flowers have been planted in mountains [… Read More »

by Dennis Prager Bio The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Frontpagemag Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other — for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for secular fanatics, it means [… Read More »

The image published with this post is a picture captured by AFP photographer Hazem Bader, who also attached a caption presumably telling the story of the image. It claims that it show a Palestinian worker falling to the ground in what looks like a construction site located in the disputed territories between Israel and the [… Read More »

I have known David Bedein for many years and have witnessed first hand his fight for honest reporting about Israel and the true intent of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in undermining the Jewish State of Israel. This interview took place before the September attempt by Abbas to gain unilateral recognition from the UN. This [… Read More »

By LAHAV HARKOV. MK launches international parliamentary campaign to restructure Palestinian refugee agency. http: //www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article. Read More »

A compelling perspective on the thought and life of Abraham Joshua Heschel that is beginning to take root in Israeli society. Dror Bondi grew up on a settlement, demonstrated against Yitzhak Rabin and even thought of killing him. But after the assassination, he began searching for another way – and found it in the teachings [… Read More »

(Ex. 13: 17-17: 16) – Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man. In the preceding Parashot in the Book of Exodus we have focused on items that came to be associated with the sanctuary (Mishkan). The staff of Moshe and Aaron were kept in the sanctuary and the gold of Egypt was dedicated for the sanctuary. In Parashah of Beshalah there [… Read More »

This Friday Afternoon thousands gathered for fun, dance, music and beer on Rothchild Blvd. in the heart of sunny Tel Aviv. It was a wonderfully warm day after a very rainy January. Enjoy the pictures and video of the event. http: //www.youtube. Read More »

PARSHAT BESHALACH (by Yehuda HaKohen) “Pharaoh approached; the Children of Israel raised their eyes and behold! – Egypt was journeying after them, and they were very frightened; the Children of Israel cried out to HaShem. They said to Moshe, `Were there no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the Wilderness? What [… Read More »

By David Hazony. The stories in this week’s reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit. A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, “Ancient Israel’s Bipolar Moment.” Or, even more flippantly, “Hands Up!” Let’s start with the end. In the middle of the desert, [… Read More »

by Ariel Ben Avraham. One of the fundamental principles that the Torah teaches, and the book of Exodus in particular, is the fact that all emanates from Creator and is sustained by Him. Understanding this in a deeper level means that we are His invention and not all the way around. This also implies that [… Read More »

The Israeli Democracy Institute today formally presents the findings of the third Guttman-AVI CHAI report, A Portrait of Israeli Jews: Beliefs, Observance, and Values of Israeli Jews. Based on a survey conducted by IDI’s Guttman Center for Surveys for the AVI CHAI Foundation in 2009, the report is a sequel to two earlier studies conducted in [… Read More »

On the cover of a UNRWA-funded textbook, the image of a Palestinian stamp has a blank space on the bottom left where a Hebrew inscription belongs. It was one of numerous examples speaker Arnon Groiss used in a congressional briefing to show the anti-Israel rhetoric young Palestinians are being taught. Photo by Suzanne Pollak. By [… Read More »

A briefing by David P. Goldman David P. Goldman is best known for his “Spengler” column at Asia Times Online, which draws a million readers a month. He headed global bond research for Bank of America as well as other Wall Street research groups. http: //www.meforum. Read More »

Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria Israel news photo: courtesy of USCDC. Tel Aviv University scientists create a liquid solution to help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria and keep patients safe in hospitals. Read More »

Kibbutz Sasa saves the lives of countless American troops with its advanced armor technologies. Ambassador Shapiro saw this first hand on January 30 when he visited the Plasan factory in northern Galilee.   The Ambassador saw the full range of products, from reactive armor, to purpose built vehicles, to body armor. Plasan has delivered more [… Read More »

By David Allouche, NoCamels The Israeli company AORA Solar will soon be opening its second solar power station in southern Spain. The thermodynamic solar plant was constructed in the city of Almeria, on the Mediterranean coast, and will be inaugurated on February 7th 2012.   The plant is situated in a complex of 2,000 square meters. [… Read More »

By Sivan Kriboshe, NoCamels The Israeli biotechnology company BrainStorm announced successful results in its clinical trial for a drug against ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) – a fatal neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read More »