THIS SHOULD MAKE US ALL FEEL GOOD  Menorah lighting in Saddam Hussein's former palaceLt. Laurie Zimmet, serving for the US Navy Intelligence in Baghdad, Iraq,  organized a Chanukah Festival and Menorah Kindling inside the Al Faw  Palace, the former palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The US ArmedServices granted her the permission to organize it and distributed  flyers to thousands of Jewish Servicemen and women serving our  country, inviting them to celebrate Chanukah in this most unique  location. Zimmet is a member of Chabad of the Conejo. “Laurie brought the  message of Chanukah alive for so many of our people that…

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President, secretary of state clear schedule for early next week due to Sharon's condition; Rice cancels planned Australia, Indonesia trip, tells Olmert America praying for ill prime minister Ronny Sofer Preparing for possible Israel trip: The U.S. State Department has announced that President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have cleared their schedule for early next week in case they need to travel to Israel should Prime Minister Ariel Sharon die. Earlier it was reported that Rice canceled a trip to Indonesia and Australia because of concerns over the condition of critically ill prime minister, said officials…

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The massive stroke that cut down Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late on Wednesday night (Jan. 4) not only throws Israeli politics into turmoil. It also marks the likely starting point of the coming nuclear showdown that will pit the Jewish state and the free world against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vice President Dick Cheney noted the inevitable nearly one year ago. He told talk radio host Don Imus just minutes before the inauguration on January 20, 2005 that “the Israelis might well decide to act first” should they conclude that Iran had acquired “significant nuclear capability.” Since then,…

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By Aaron Klein © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com JERUSALEM – A new movement is set to be presented next week by residents of Judea and Samaria calling for Jews there to secede from Israel and create their own autonomous Jewish entity in part to head off the possibility of further unilateral Israeli withdrawals from the area, WND has learned. The Judea Initiative, led by northern Samaria resident Yekutel Ben Yaacov, is seeking to gather signatures from Judea and Samaria's nearly 200,000 Jews for a manifesto declaring the creation of a sovereign Jewish authority that would govern itself independently according to Jewish law…

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© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Iranian President Mahmoud's Ahmadinejad's mystical pre-occupation with the coming of a Shiite Islamic messiah figure – the Mahdi – is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been making headlines lately by questioning whether the Holocaust actually happened, by suggesting Israel should be moved to Europe and by demanding the Jewish state be wiped off the face of the earth, his apocalyptic religious zealotry has received less attention. Read More

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Fujitsu announced recently that it will use its biometric palm vein authentication technology in a public library in Naka city (Ibaraki prefecture, Japan). Fujitsu's contactless palm vein authentication will eliminate the use of library cards. Naka city was established on Jan. 21, 2005 with the founding principle of creating harmony among nature, the culture of the region, its people and cutting-edge science. Features of Fujitsu's contactless palm vein authentication technology which were recognized and highly regarded by Naka city include: High level of authentication accuracy due to the complexity of vein patterns of the palm Difficulty in duplicating palm vein…

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  Reliable sources indicate to Israel Insider that PM Ariel Sharon died at 11 am. Israeli media channels still report his condition is “very grave.” Director of Hadassah Hospital Shlomo Mor-Yosef officially denies “rumors” of death and says Sharon's condition is “serious but stable.” Channel 10 reports those closest to Sharon as saying he has suffered “brain damage.” A likely explanation to reconcile the two reports is that Sharon has suffered brain death — the lack of cerebral activity — but that his heart continues beating, while he remains anesthetized and respirated. Mor-Yosef, briefing journalists at the hospital's gate, said…

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      By Rafael D. Frankel | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor JERUSALEM – Israel is facing a political realignment that could reverberate through the entire Middle East for years to come. The health crisis that has removed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from the political scene has created a political vacuum that Israelis compare to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. It comes less than three months before national elections, which Mr. Sharon's new centrist party was expected to dominate. The duties of Israel's prime minister were quickly assumed by Ehud Olmert, the deputy…

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by Daniel Pipes Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has suffered a massive brain hemorrhage; at the very least, his long political career appears to be over. What does that mean for Israeli politics and for Arab-Israeli relations?Basically, it signals a return to business as usual.Since the State of Israel came into existence in 1948, two points of view on relations with the Arabs have dominated its political life, represented by (as they are presently called) Labour on the left and Likud on the right.Labour argued for greater flexibility and accommodation with the Arabs, Likud called for a tougher stance. Every…

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