By MICHAEL FREUND— On Wednesday morning of last week, just hours before the start of Succot, hundreds of young men in drab green uniforms mulled about at the foot of the Nahal Brigade memorial in Pardes Hanna. A mixture of exhaustion and enthusiasm was evident on their boyish faces as they prepared for the start…
1: An Israeli soldier was abducted and killed by a Palestinian co-worker. The big news of today is word that Sgt. Tomer Hazan, an off duty IDF soldier, was invited into the village of a Palestinian co-worker (fellow employee from a restaurant in Bat Yam). Once in the village the young Israeli was abducted and…
By JUDI RUDOREN, NY TIMES— Small groups of Jews are increasingly ascending the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, a sacred site controlled for centuries by Muslims, who see the visits as a provocation that could undermine the fragile peace talks started this summer. For decades the Israelis drawn to the site were mainly a…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST– Did US President Barack Obama score a great victory for the United States by concluding a deal with Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons or has he caused irreparable harm to the US’s reputation and international position? By what standard can we judge his actions when the results will only be known…
By RON JAGER— As a longtime resident of Shaare Tiqva for the past 24 years, Shabbat Chol Hamoed began as a non-eventful day in which the reading of Aicha is for me always a special event. Towards late afternoon on Shabbat, when the ominous gray clouds above began to release winters first rainfall, the entrance…