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Why Israelis care about peace by Historian and Israeli Ambassador – Michael Oren

October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Israeli Amb. to the U.S. Michael Oren

Given our experience of disappointment and trauma, it’s astonishing that Israelis still support the peace process at all. Yet we do, and by an overwhelming majority

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Finding A Lost Tribe of Israel In India – The long road home

October 11, 2010 | No Comments »

Michael Freund with Bnei Menashe children in India

by Michael Freund The road leading to the village of Churachandpur winds through lush and verdant fields. Aside from an occasional military checkpoint, there is little vehicular activity along the thoroughfare, in this remote region of India’s northeast.

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Rabin’s daughter says he may have stopped peace process

October 10, 2010 | No Comments »

According to “Israel today“, By Ryan Jones The daughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who started Israel’s land-for-peace process with Yasser Arafat’s PLO, says her father likely would have responded to ongoing Palestinian intransigence by reversing the concessions he had made.

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Mass European Rally for Israel

October 05, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Rome

By Hillel Fendel A mass rally-demonstration entitled “For the truth, for Israel” will be held in Rome this Thursday. It is being organized by Fiamma Nirenstein – journalist, MP, and vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Italian Chamber of Deputies – and other leading European personalities. 

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The Prime Ministers Man – Yehuda Avner Advisor to Five Israeli Leaders

October 01, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Adviser to five Israeli leaders, Yehuda Avner shares his perspective on Israel and what it means to be a Jew. by Jenny Hazan Continue Reading »

Michael Oren – The Paradox of Prophecy and the Quandary of Statecraft

September 26, 2010 | No Comments »

Israeli Amb. to the U.S. Michael Oren

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, spoke at three Washington, D.C. synagogues on Yom Kippur. Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Jews heard the same eloquent message, and Oren’s text is reproduced below. It’s well worth reading in full On Yom Kippur we read the Book of Jonah, one of the Bible’s most enigmatic texts. It is also one of the Bible’s shortest texts, weighing in at a page and a half, which is quite an accomplishment for this holiday. And it features one of our scripture’s least distinguished individuals. Jonah—a man whose name, in Hebrew, means dove—not dov, as in Hebrew for bear, but dove as, in English, pigeon.

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