In an apparent victory for radical Muslims and the left wing of the American foreign policy establishment, President Bush has failed to take any action to renominate Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace. Bush appointed Pipes, a conservative Middle East analyst and syndicated columnist who has…
PHILADELPHIA — During his days in the National Football League, Reggie White was listed at 6 foot 5 inches and 300 pounds. But if you asked anyone who ever played against him, they would tell you that he played even bigger, that he might have been the greatest gridiron warrior to line up on the…
Larry King, master of ceremonies at the December 7 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center dinner, alternately amused and dismayed the 500 guests at The Pierre with such zingers as “Remember, Catholics, we gave you your Lord!” and, “People look at me.… They look at her.… They look at me.… If she dies — she…
In what seems like a creepy Islamist twist on a Hollywood horror movie, Israel and America are being accused of stealing body parts from defenseless Arab Muslims. The charges, made in a newspaper article and in an unrelated television series airing in Iran, appear to underscore the vanishing distinction in the eyes of Islamic extremists…
Hanukkah is ever old and ever new — as the following poem by Alef Katz testifies when he reminds us of events 2,000 years ago and their meaning for Jews today. It is in the light of this everlasting tradition that Der Vinkl now runs the third in a series of poems that appeared in…
In order to really understand what Viktor Yushchenko’s election as president means for my fellow Ukrainian Jews, it is necessary to first understand a thing or two about how authority works here. For the better part of the last 500 years, Ukrainians lived under colonial rule. Like most feudal states, Ukraine was ruled not by…
The controversial attempt by one of America’s oldest Jewish organizations to hire a high-profile Israeli diplomat as its CEO appears to have collapsed. A panel of administrative judges in Israel has ruled that the country’s former consul general in New York, Alon Pinkas, might take a post as chief executive of the American Jewish Congress…
TEL AVIV — Delivering his first-ever election speech last week, the leading candidate to replace Yasser Arafat as chairman of the Palestinian Authority sounded very much like his predecessor. Speaking before a crowd in Ramallah, the authority’s former prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, promised Palestinians that he will “fulfill their dream of an independent state.” Though…
In one of the most stunning developments in the history of biblical archaeology, Israeli authorities this week indicted four antiquities dealers for allegedly operating a forgery ring that involves some of the most significant biblical artifacts ever discovered. The forged treasures include an ivory pomegranate believed to be the only relic from Solomon’s Temple, a…
Thousands of Ethiopians, languishing in two compounds, have won critical political support for their bid to immigrate to Israel. Half the members of Knesset are calling on the Israeli government to abolish, or at least significantly raise, its monthly quota on the number of Falash Mura that are allowed to come to Israel. The call…
WASHINGTON — Last June, leading neoconservative Richard Perle received an unexpected phone call at his home. It was Larry Franklin calling. Franklin is the veteran Iran specialist in the Pentagon’s Near East South Asia office, and the key Iraq war planner who had been pressured by the FBI into launching a series of counterintelligence stings….
