Jewlicious Summer Reads 2: Once a Mossadnik, always a…
A best selling Summer Jewish read is PORTRAIT OF A SPY, a suspense novel by Daniel Silva (July 2011, Harper) featuring Gabriel Allon, an artist and a retired Mossad operative and assassin. The…
Yom Hazikaron – Israel Memorial Day 2011
Israel’s official memorial day, officially known as Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day. It honors the memory of 22,867 soldiers killed in the line of duty and 3,971 civilian victims…
Murderers of Fogel Family Caught and Named
The military censor lifted the publication ban and now it can safely be revealed that the killers were Amjad Awad 19, and Hakim Awad 18. The two suspects were from the village of…
50 Injured, one dead in Jerusalem Bus Bombing
A package placed by the 74 bus stop in front of Binyanei Hauma exploded this afternoon in Jerusalem injuring 39 people, 4 of them seriously. I was listening to Infected Mushroom when suddenly…
Five Members of Itamar Family Slaughtered
At 8:59 pm Friday night, terrorists hopped the fence surrounding the village of Itamar setting off an alarm. Not seeing a cut in the fence, the guard assumed the alarm was set by…
Why shouldn’t we waterboard Abdulmutallab?
Originally published in the New York Daily News By James Kirchick Picture this hypothetical situation: A member of Al Qaeda boards a transatlantic flight bearing 269 passengers and crew headed for a major…
Absurdities of War
It was Tuesday, December 30. We had been running in and out of the bomb shelter behind our Sderot Media Center office throughout the day, as Palestinian rockets exploded all around. Usually, when…
Worst Rocket Attack on Sderot since Ceasefire
A Palestinian rocket exploded right outside a Sderot supermarket on Wednesday evening, December 17, in one of the worst Qassam attacks on Sderot since the ceasefire began. Rocket shrapnel lightly wounded three people,…
More martyrs in Mumbai
In addition to the incredible Holtzbergs, HY”D, four more special Jews were murdered in the Mumbai Chabad House. Herein follows a profile – courtesy of the Yeshiva World News website. Norma Schwartzblatt-Rabinowitz HY”D,…
Today, we are all Chabadniks
As soon as Shabbat was over in Jerusalem, I rushed to my computer to see what the updates were from Mumbai. It didn’t take long for me to realize that my prayers over…
Jerusalem Bulldozer Terror Attack Kills 3
Crazy. Two blocks from my house a terrorist took a bulldozer from a construction site and went nuts, crushing cars, knocking over buses and killing three people. Luckily he didn’t get far before…
