Was Syria strike a repeat of 1981?
2007-09-21
By Leslie Susser, JTA News & Features JERUSALEM (JTA) – With Israel still refusing to discuss the apparent recent air strike against Syria, observers have begun to suggest that a major event may have taken place. The apparent bombing run may have been akin to Israel’s bombing of the Iraqi nuclearContinue Reading
A state of unease
2007-09-21
By Vanessa Bulkacz, JTA News & Features LONDON (JTA) — With anti-Semitism in Britain at record levels, life is changing in subtle and not-so-subtle ways for the country’s Jews. Armed guards escort Orthodox Jews in Manchester walking to synagogue. Vendors sell Arabic-language editions of The Protocols of the Elders of ZionContinue Reading
From ideology to enforcement
2007-09-21
By Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features WASHINGTON (JTA) – In the aftermath of her son Ari’s murder by an Arab gunman on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, Devorah Halberstam was introduced to a federal judge for the Southern District of New York with a longstanding interest in terrorism-related issues. InContinue Reading
An increase in reparations
2007-09-07
By Toby Axelrod, JTA News & Features BERLIN (JTA) — For Aviva G., the significance of the late August announcement that more Holocaust survivors like her will be eligible for pension payments from the German government was not about the money. It was about principle and the notion that a certainContinue Reading
Senators hold up bills sanctioning Iran, Sudan
2007-09-07
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Senators hold up bills sanctioning Iran, Sudan
2007-09-07
By Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s one of the few bright bipartisan spots in a town awash in partisan mud: Republicans and Democrats agree that the tyrants in Sudan and Iran must be isolated, and the sooner the better. In addition to enjoying bipartisan support, billsContinue Reading
Turning heads
2007-09-07
By David Spett and Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features ROSEMONT, Ill. (JTA) – The delegates trickling into the massive convention center chatted, renewed acquaintances, greeted each other with traditional Muslim blessings and largely ignored the endless words of welcome from the podium. Until the rabbi spoke. Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s fieryContinue Reading
The dirty word
2007-09-07
By Dinah A. Spritzer, JTA News & Features PRAGUE (JTA) — Ha’aretz columnist Danny Rubinstein had the unrepentant last word after being dropped by a British Zionist organization that objected to his calling Israel an “apartheid” state at a U.N. Palestinian rights conference in Brussels. “I am not apologizing for whatContinue Reading
613 seeds
2007-09-07
By Sue Fishkoff, JTA News & Features SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Gregory Moiseyevich Levin spent 40 years building his pomegranate paradise in the Kopet Dag mountains of rural Turkmenistan. Levin, a Leningrad-trained agronomist who became chairman of the subtropical fruit project at the remote Garrigala Turkmen Experimental Agricultural Station, amassed theContinue Reading
The year in review: Jews in America
2007-09-07
By Ami Eden, JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Too often the High Holiday process of reflecting on the year gone by can produce a frustratingly vanilla verdict: not much has changed. But thanks to Jimmy Carter, gay-friendly rabbis and deep-pocketed donors, the Hebrew year 5767 turned out toContinue Reading
The year in review: A difficult year
2007-09-07
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The year in review: A difficult year
2007-09-07
By Leslie Susser, JTA News & Features JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jewish year 5767 saw a widening of the rift between moderates and radicals in the Middle East, which in turn produced a paradox for Israel: the rift heightened both a chance for peace between Israel and the moderates and aContinue Reading