Israel issues and information

This page of our web site is dedicated to issues and information pertaining to Israel.

First a disclaimer:

The information, ideas, content shown here do not necessarily represent the views of Temple Ami Shalom, its representatives, or its congregants.  The information provided here is for your use.  It is up to each person to decide what they believe or wish to do with regards to issues pertaining to the State of Israel.  On any of these resources you may find some things you agree or disagree with strongly.  Our goal is to represent information, and then you decide.

If you have additional ideas for the content of this set of web pages, please log them via the Guestbook function of this website found at the top of each page in this website, or send an e-mail to the webmaster.  All comments posted to the guestbook are readable by anyone viewing the site.

Here are some links with brief explanation on each link (each link comes up in a new browser window, so when done, dismiss the page):

Social and Political Activism

Register to vote for the 2006 World Zionist Organization Congress of the Jewish People. Have a voice in decisions that affect you, your family, and your heritage. MERCAZ USA, the Zionist membership organization of the Conservative Movement, needs your vote. You can pick up a registration form in the lobby or register on-line at www.mercazusa.org.


Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (www.camera.org)
This site seeks to point out biases in reporting on issues pertaining to Israel.  It asks readers to subscribe (it is free) to it in order to obtain periodic e-mail's (somewhere around 4-10 per week) alerting subscribers to issues with specific media coverage of Israel.  The organization then asks for subscribers to take specific written action to assist in correcting the bias or inaccuracy.  The site has been successful in getting retractions and corrections made. 

Israel Emergency Alliance at www.standwithus.com
You are encouraged to go to this site and register.  

The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights would like to be heard

at the United Conference on Racism, and the group is making the news.
This group represents minority religious and ethnic communities from
countries all over the globe, suffering at the hands of the radical
Islamist-Jihad culture.  This is not a Jewish group, but their concerns
MIRROR the concerns re. Israel and the Jewish people.  Your action must be
to tell your contacts about this group, and refer them to the web site at:
http://www.dhimmi.com

The Global News Service of the Jewish People.  For in-depth coverage of the latest developments affecting Jews all over the world. (www.jta.org).  This site provides for you to subscribe for a daily e-mail briefing.  

Click here to participate in an effort to revoke the Nobel Peace prize given to Yassir Arafat (www.revoketheprize.org)

Simon Wiesenthal Center (www.wiesenthal.com) 
Click here to participate in one of their social action petitions pertaining to Israel

Commentary and Articles

Jewish World Review (jewishworldreview.com), provides commentary (many well known political writers), about a myriad of political and Jewish issues.  This site tends toward the conservative side politically but does have interesting articles about Judaism and Jews.

Michael Kelly's article titled "Israel's Remarkable Restraint" found in various sources.  Here I include links to it on jewishworldreview.com.  His current article (the one mentioned above and dated 8/30/01) can be found by clicking:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/kelly.html .  
When his next article comes out (it is a weekly column), you can still find the article by going to the bottom of the page and going into his "archive" of articles, or by clicking: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/kelly083001.asp

A Green Light for Israel
By Robert Kagan and William Kristol - Editorial
September 3, 2001/Vol 6, Number 47
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_47_01/kagan_kristol_ed_6_47_01.asp

Daniel Pipes - danielpipes.com

The Source - www.thesourceisrael.com/current/

USAJewish - usajewish.com

Jewish Education Center of Cleaveland - www.jecc.org

Jewish Federation of San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys - www.jewishsgpv.org

United Jewish Communities - www.ujc.org

Audio and Video links

10 minutes of live daily news from Israel (mabat.iba.org.il/engnews.ram)
This requires that you have Real Audio installed on your computer.  Click here if you need to install Real Audio and you will be taken to their web site where you will be able to find the proper code to install the product.  The basic version of Real Audio is free.

News & Newspaper links from Israel

Israeli News Now
A web site on which you can find links to articles pertaining to Israel and the Mid-East from many News Sources

Jerusalem Post

Kol-Israel -  Live Radio, Israeli News and Sports from Israel

/Regional/MiddleEast/Israel/ - www.KOL-ISRAEL.com - Web Directory

Israel Defense Forces Homepage: Welcome to the IDF - News - Israel Defense Forces

Haaretz Online Newspaper from Israel in Hebrew

Haaretz Daily Online Newspaper from Israel in English

Israel National News
Available in English by default.  Hebrew, French, and Russian languages may be selected.

Gamla - www.gamla.org.il/english/index.htm

Opposing view links

These links are for Arab and Palestinian news and propaganda sources.  They are included here so that we can keep an eye on how Israel and the United States are reported in some of the news sources that part of the world reads.  Much of this is not for the faint of heart (don't read this while you are driving).  We do not endorse these sites, but we found them frightening their views, views you should read about and know about.



Syria Times - www.teshreen.com/syriatimes

Arabic Media Internet Network - www.amin.org 

Arabic News - www.arabicnews.com

Jordan Times - www.jordantimes.com

Intifada - www.intifada.com

Palestinian Media Watch - www.pmwatch.org/pmw/pmwgroups/ 

Miscellaneous

My Hebrew Dictionary

 

On the lighter side, click here to see some scenes from web cams in Israel (www.isracamera.co.il)

Harry Leichter's Yiddish Stuff Page

USCJ's page about Israel and the Jewish World (http://www.uscj.org/israel_and_the_jewish_world.html)

Power Point Slide Shows and other....

 

http://www.geocities.com/mid_east_truth/

Which has some of these links:

Israel/Palestinian History (Middle East Truth) very large -2mb - best to do a right click and save target as..., and then view locally

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/radio/ram/eng-video/jihad.ram

About the Durban conference

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