For the First Time

It was precisely 25 years ago that Natan Sharansky, icon of the struggle to liberate Soviet Jewry, walked to freedom across Berlin’s Glienicke…

Stockholm this week joined the long and terrifying list of Western cities targeted in recent years by Islamic fundamentalism. For the first time…

Following September 11, the US, together with NATO forces and the Afghan Northern Alliance, launched Operation Enduring Freedom, a military campaign…

On August 24 in the year 410 CE – sixteen centuries ago – the ancient world was shaken at its very foundation. A noted saying of that day held that…

A president’s first midterm election is inevitably a referendum on his two years in office. The bad news for Democrats is that President Barack…

In the spring of 1943 a powerful illustration was displayed on the cover of the Baltimore Jewish Times. Entitled “Americans will always fight for…

Yishai and the kids Sir, – I hope I am not the only reader who was offended and revolted by Eli Yishai’s remarks (“Yishai: The field trip is over for…

BAGHDAD — For the first time since the 2003 overthrow of their patron, Saddam Hussein, Iraq's Sunni Arabs are on the winning side. But the triumph…

Though Israel has established a reputation as high-tech powerhouse, its position in one of the hottest growth industries in technology – video games…

Adolfo Roitman’s glimpse into the Silent Years began with a casual conversation with a visiting scholar five years ago. Roitman, curator of the…

Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill Thursday that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in near-universal medical…

This month the beautiful lights, music and family celebrations of Hanukka and Christmas have brightened the winter for Jews and Christians around the…

The traditional Classics at the Red Sea Festival, presented by Mariinsky Theater from Saint Petersburg, takes place January 14-17 in Eilat. Joining…

For the first time since the outbreak of the global economic crisis, the local unemployment rate dropped, falling to 7.6 percent of the civilian…

The leaders of the world's economies gathered in Istanbul this week, and the main subject on their agenda was how to deal with the troubled global…

Every day politicians and pundits talk of another chance at Middle East peace missed, delayed or subverted. The focus is always on Palestinians and…

Israel's Andy Ram and his Belarusian doubles partner Max Mirnyi qualified for the final of the $3 million Rogers Cup in Montreal late Saturday…

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu faces increasing international pressure to make concessions for peace, he has allies in some unlikely corners…

When Rome laid siege to Jerusalem more than 2,000 years ago, the inhabitants of the city were starving. Every contemporary account of the suffering,…

The Arabs hated it. The Europeans were, well, underwhelmed. And the Americans quickly pocketed what they liked, and disregarded the rest. So, was…