FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1,938 years the linen garments of the lay priests are being produced in preparation for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple and the renewal of the Divine service. The last priestly garments to have been worn were those worn by the priests who were martyred by the Roman legions who brutally invaded and destroyed the Holy Temple on the ninth day of the month of Av, in the year 70 CE.
THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE HAS SPARED NO EFFORT in procuring the necessary materials for the performing of this Torah commandment, and once again has enlisted 21st century technology in order to do so in a manner befitting the Torah injunction that these priestly garments be "both dignified and beautiful". (Exodus 28:40)
SPECIALLY PREPARED FLAXEN THREAD, wound into six-ply strands, according to the Torah prescribed requirement, ("twined linen - shesh mushzar"), has been imported from India. These individual spools of thread are presently being spun into larger 1.7 meter long spindles in order to accomodate the next step: the weaving of bolts of fabric 1.7 meters wide. Before commencing this process, (known in Hebrew as hashtayah), of creating the 1.7 meter spindles, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder ...   more »

Thursday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which eight seminary students were killed by a Palestinian gunman, and the latest fighting between between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, are more than new chapters in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: They are part of a much larger struggle underway between Iran and Israel. As crowds took to the streets of Gaza celebrating the carnage in Jerusalem, Hamas issued a statement declaring that it "blesses" the operation. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah's al-Manar television station called the massacre at the yeshiva a "heroic" operation against an "extremist" school.
Iran and Syria have long been the major arms suppliers for Hamas. A senior Israeli military intelligence official said Monday that all of the 20 long-range rockets that had been fired from Gaza into Israel since Feb. 28 were Iranian-made Grads, which have a range of approximately 12.5 miles. Hamas and another Iranian-backed group called the Popular Resistance Committees have said they have upwards of 300 of the missiles in Gaza.
Iran has spent, conservatively speaking, tens of millions of dollars in helping to turn Gaza into an armed camp since Israel unilaterally withdrew its civilians and soldiers from Gaza in 2005. Dozens if not hundreds of Gazans have ...   more »

In interview with French newspaper, Israeli president says ' in the past sanctions have proved effective' in pushing countries to reounounce nuclear ambitions; defends IDF activities in Gaza
Israel will not consider unilateral action to stop Iran getting a nuclear bomb, President Shimon Peres was quoted as saying on Saturday.  
In an interview with France's Le Figaro newspaper ahead of a trip to Paris next week, Peres said, however, if economic sanctions failed to persuade Iran to stop its contested nuclear program then "non-military options would be used up."
The United Nations has imposed sanctions on Iran to pressure it to suspend uranium enrichment. The United States and other major powers suspect Iran is enriching uranium as part of a covert effort to develop a nuclear bomb. Iran says it is only interested in civilian nuclear energy.  
"I would prefer to stop the development of the bomb without recourse to war. Sanctions have proved their efficacy in the past," Peres said, citing decisions by Libya, South Africa and North Korea to renounce nuclear plans.  
Asked if Israel would act alone to stop Iran getting the bomb, Peres, a former prime minister who currently holds no executive power, ...   more »

How the Islamist death cult is destroying a generation of youth
Almost everyone agrees that there's nothing more beautiful than a young child – the brightness of spirit, the innocence, the natural intelligence are breathtaking.
What, then, possesses an angelic little girl to chant confidently in front of television cameras: "When I wander into Jerusalem, I will become a suicide bomber"? Or a little boy to exclaim: "We will destroy the chair of the despots, so they will taste the flame of death"?
What has happened to these children in their earliest, most vulnerable and tender years to poison their souls and set many on the path ultimately to madness and murder?
What goes on in their homes, schools and mosques that induces them to strap on explosive belts and kill themselves and countless unsuspecting innocents in a pizza parlor?
How, after growing up in a home with a mother and father and brothers and sisters, can a young man suddenly stab his own sister to death – knifing her not just once or twice, but dozens and dozens of times, like a maniacal serial murderer – just because she supposedly held hands or was seen in public with a ...   more »

Israel decides to take advantage of Thursday's bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch aggressive campaign against Hamas
Israel has decided to take advantage of Thursday's bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch an aggressive campaign against Hamas.  
Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the political echelon instructed the Government Press Office to distribute the shocking images from the yeshiva shooting worldwide, including pictures of holy books perforated with bullets, a blood-stained praying shawl and the terrorist's body inside the yeshiva.  
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni decided that the Foreign Ministry would work to convey the Israeli messages to the international community.  
Livni spoke to a large number of foreign ministers and expressed the State of Israel's abhorrence over the deadly attack.
A sources in the Prime Minister's Office said Thursday, "There is a direct link between this terror attack and the ongoing rocket fire and attacks against IDF soldiers in the south. It's the same motivation and the same organizations."The Palestinians will stop at nothing in their attempts to target innocent people. This time they intentionally hurt young students studying Torah at a rabbinical seminary."   Israeli officials harshly condemned ...   more »

'Kill them and then Allah will torture them in your hands and bring joy to believers'
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – The military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization today labeled this week's Jerusalem yeshiva shooting massacre an "heroic act," called for more terror attacks against Israelis and urged Fatah to forge a unity government with the Hamas terror group.
The official statement came hours before Abbas told an international group today peace talks with Israel should continue despite the bloody attack, in which eight yeshiva students were gunned to death while studying in their school's main library.
"Despite all the circumstances we're living through and all the attacks we're experiencing, we insist on peace. There is no other path," Abbas said today in a speech marking International Women's Day.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Abbas' military wing, meanwhile released an official pamphlet obtained by WND declaring their appreciation of "the heroic operation in Jerusalem."
"We bless the martyr [who carried out the shootings] with all the blood of the heroes of the resistance and with the soil of our land," continued the Fatah statement.
"Kill them and then Allah will torture them in your hands and ...   more »