Looking over his shoulder
2007-08-24
By Leslie Susser, JTA News & Features JERUSALEM (JTA) — After his overwhelming victory in the Likud’s leadership primary last week, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu might have felt well on the way to succeeding Ehud Olmert as prime minister. For months he had been leading in polls for the premiership, and wasContinue Reading
Landlocked
2007-07-06
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Editor’s note: In May, JTNews editor Joel Magalnick visited the Negev Desert in central Israel as a guest of Ben Gurion University of the Negev’s Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development. This article is the third in a series of stories about theContinue Reading
A Learning Process
2007-06-22
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Editor’s note: In May I visited the Negev Desert in central Israel as a guest of Ben Gurion University of the Negev’s Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development. This article is the second in a series of stories about the Negev’s Bedouin populationContinue Reading
Nomadic No More
2007-06-08
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Editor’s note: In mid-May, JTNews Editor Joel Magalnick spent five days in the Negev Desert in central Israel as a guest of Ben Gurion University of the Negev’s Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development. This article is the first in a series ofContinue Reading
A Troubled Exodus
2007-04-13
By Dina Kraft, JTNews Correspondent A group of refugees from Darfur on a visit to Yad Vashem lingered next to a model of the crematorium at Auschwitz, taking in the ghastly sight of bodies carried on cots and pushed into ovens. They walked through the museum in silence, listening to theContinue Reading