The New York Jewish Film Festival closed this week after showcasing 37 films from around the world. Here are a few films to look out for as they travel to other American cities in the coming months.
Palestinian support for Iraq took on a new dimension this week with a suicide bombing in Israel that Islamic Jihad said was aimed at showing solidarity with Baghdad.
Dozens of people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up March 30 next to a crowded restaurant in the coastal city of Netanya. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and identified the bomber as a resident of Tulkarm.
The group\’s secretary, Ramadan Shalakh, said the attack commemorated Land Day, which itself marks the deaths of six Israeli Arabs during protests in 1976 against state confiscation of Arab lands in the Galilee. Shalakh also said the bombing was a show of solidarity with the Iraqi people.
You know that strange window of time Sunday morning before the Super Bowl starts, when you don\’t want to start anything that won\’t be finished by kickoff, but you\’ve still got to find something to do? Sinai Temple, nearly a dozen other local Conservative men\’s clubs and the Federation of Jewish Men\’s Clubs have an idea: try joining 10,000 others who will be wrapping tefillin.
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