Hunting for the perfect (JNF) Christmas tree—in Israel

Published on December 17, 2012

Winding up and down the rows of Arizona brush trees, Jason Heeney sees slim pickings for Christmas.

Super mogul Kathy Ireland the new super model for Israel

By Danielle Berrin
Published on August 22, 2012

In ’84, sans IOC, L.A. remembered Israeli athletes slain at Munich Olympics

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on July 19, 2012

JNF should plant trees, not uproot families

Published on March 1, 2012

As a child, I proudly brought my spare change to Hebrew school to drop in the little blue boxes. With this money, my teachers told me, the Jewish National Fund would plant trees in Israel. I never imagined that these nickels and dimes would also help to evict Palestinians from their homes.

Rabbis thank countries that helped with forest fires

Published on October 25, 2011

Conservative movement rabbis thanked envoys from countries that helped Israel douse forest fires, including some that now have difficult relations with the Jewish state.

Israel gifts pope with olive tree

Published on October 24, 2011

An olive tree more than 200 years old grown near Nazareth was sent as a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Pope Benedict XVI.

Bedouin villagers clash with foresters in Negev

Published on February 10, 2011

Residents of a Bedouin village razed more than a dozen times clashed with workers from the Jewish National Fund who came to plant trees in the area. Six people were injured in Thursday's clashes in the unrecognized village of Al-Arakib in the Negev and three were arrested for throwing rocks, Ynet reported.

Deadly Israeli wildfire draws U.S., Los Angeles support

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on December 2, 2010

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) and its partner, the Friends of Israel Firefighters (FIF), are leading efforts to raise funds to supply Israel’s beleaguered and aging firefighting force with the equipment it needs to battle the out-of-control brushfire consuming Israel’s Carmel Mountains near Haifa.

Briefs: Olmert tells OU Jerusalem not negotiable; Temple Mount digging may cause problems

Published on October 18, 2007

News briefs.

Briefs: U.S. House approves Iran divestment; Olmert real estate deals probed; Barghouti seen leading

Published on September 27, 2007

US News Briefs on Middle East

Israeli Arabs prove to be part of the problem, not part of the solution

By Amotz Asa-El
Published on August 16, 2007

The crux of the debate is what Israel's Arabs make of the very idea of a Jewish state in the ancestral land of the Jews. And our conclusion since the fall of 2000 has been -- as the famously dovish TV journalist Amnon Abramowitz put it at the time -- that while we pro-Oslo Israelis were devising two states for two peoples, our Arab counterparts, on both sides of the Green Line, were contemplating two states for one people: the Palestinians.

‘Jews Only’ JNF land plan counters Israel’s values

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
Published on August 9, 2007

It is unthinkable that Israel will be a country where purchasing land will require a paper from the chief rabbinate certifying one's Jewish status. It is unthinkable that Christian and Muslim Israelis, non-Jewish foreign investors and the 700,000 Russian immigrants whose religious status is unclear will be prohibited from leasing public lands. It is unthinkable that a people who has suffered from similar discriminatory laws throughout its history, including in Iran and Saudi Arabia today, will now impose them on others.

Israel Feeling Strains of Democracy

By Leonard Fein
Published on March 10, 2005

When it suits us, we refer to Israel as "the only democracy in the Middle East." When it suits us, we refer to Israel as "the Jewish state" or "the state of the Jewish people." And now and then, we describe Israel as "a Jewish democratic state."

Community Briefs

Published on October 24, 2002

JNF Honors Eight

By Journal Staff
Published on September 5, 2002

In a tribute to eight of its members, among them Holocaust survivors, a rabbi and two doctors, the Jewish National Fund will hold a 100th anniversary dinner Sept. 19 at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach. The honorees include:

Car Alarm

By Tom Tugend
Published on December 11, 1997

You've read the newspaper ads or heard the pitches on the radio: Donate your old car to our worthy charity, which aids orphans/immigrants/homeless/the halt and the lame, and enjoy a generous tax write-off.