A mosque in a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank was vandalized and three cars set on fire. The words "Price tag" and "Gal Arye Yosef" was spray-painted on the wall of the mosque in the village of Dir Istiya, near Ariel, in the early Wednesday...
During this season of Hanukkah, it is particularly sad to see extremely disturbing acts of violence in the modern Jewish State of Israel by Jews against fellow Jews. While the holiday celebrates the victory of Maccabeans against their enemies, the historic...
Some 550 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails in the second stage of the prisoner swap for captured soldier Gilad Shalit.The prisoners, including six women, were handed over by Israel on Sunday night. They left from the Ayalon Prison near Tel...
By Mati Wagner, JTA, YITZHAR, West Bank
• Published December 21, 2011
Charred tires and boulders pushed to the sides of the road leading to Yitzhar, a West Bank Jewish community near Nablus, were among the signs that residents had made an effort to prevent Israeli soldiers and police from entering the settlement. Patches...
Just when it seems that the Palestinian people cannot not be more ill-served by its so-called "official leadership," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal have again proved their ineptitude. The question is, are...
By Jessica Steinberg, JTA, JERUSALEM
• Published November 2, 2011
The entrance to the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos isn't immediately apparent. Accessible only from the winding roads of the Arab community of Beit Safafa next door, or via a sharp right off the five-lane Hebron Road, the eastern Jerusalem hilltop that...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 7, 2011
After recently returning from Israel, Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., met with local Jewish leaders last week and stressed that while he has long supported a two-state solution in which Israel would peacefully exist with Palestine, he opposes efforts by the...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published August 17, 2011
On Sept. 20, when the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present a Palestinian request for statehood recognition to the U.N. Security...
By Edgar M. Bronfman and Adam R. Bronfman
• Published August 10, 2011
NEW YORK - For the Arab Spring, Israel represents the hope that in the Middle East, a nation can be both a national homeland and a free society. Israel is a modern, thriving democracy amid a region dominated by despotic regimes that brutally oppress their...
JERUSALEM - The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It's a grass-roots demand for the major redistribution of the nation's wealth.In social terms, protesters are calling for a more caring government...
JERUSALEM — It was a sign that ties between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations remain strong despite the apparent tensions two weeks ago when the two leaders met at the White House. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shot...
BY REPPS HUDSON, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 8, 2011
If anyone still has questions about how Israel has lost the public relations campaign against the Palestinians, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin explain in non-judgmental prose what has happened since 2000 to isolate the Jewish state. In the introduction...
