in english

With a Star of David symbol emblazoned on his back, an Israeli soldier with bloodied hands bayonets a Christ-like figure in his mother's lap in a classic "pieta" setting; Auschwitz concentration camp is recast as the besieged Gaza Strip; repulsive, hook-nosed...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit lashed out at the Iranian government on Sunday, accusing the Islamist regime of trying to dominate the Middle East. Aboul Gheit's statement signaled an escalation in a simmering diplomatic dispute between the...

This is an article written today for the Chicago Tribune. Article written by Benyamin Netanyahu, the ninth prime minister of Israel and the Likud Party's candidate for prime minister. The dream of peace, anchored in the vision of our prophets, has given...

One of Colin Powell's best moves as Secretary of State was to pull out of the United Nations' 2001 conference in Durban against racism once it became an anti-Semitic rant. One of the best moves the new U.S. Administration and Europe could make is to stay...

Defence sources told the Jerusalem Post they were considering going it alone in a strike on Iran. Conventional military thinking states that Israel would need America's backing if only to allow Israeli warplanes to reach Iran by overflying Iraq, where...

A Brooklyn rabbi's wife was five months pregnant when she was slain in the Mumbai Massacre, her father revealed yesterday in Israel, where thousands of Orthodox mourners packed the funerals for the Jews killed in the attacks. The bodies of Rivka Holtzberg,...

"... When they say that they want to destruct our country. They can't do it. They don't want to do it." Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said that Tehran had dismissed the possibility of an Israeli strike against the country, local satellite...

For Muslims who just can't fit the five-times-a-day Salah prayer routine into their busy schedules, an Israeli mobile phone provider has a new solution: Mobile Koran. Pelephone has begun offering a Koran text service that enables users to tap into verses...

The Chabad center was one of 10 targets attacked by terrorists across Mumbai starting on Wednesday night (November 26) , including also the railroad station, a tourist restaurant, two hotels and hospitals. By Saturday morning the total death toll stood...

For nearly a decade, Philippe Karsenty, a French stockbroker-turned-media critic, has waged a public campaign to get a state-run television channel to admit that footage it aired in 2000 of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being killed by Israeli soldiers...