Conversion Controversy
April 13, 2000
Reform and Conservative leaders in Israel had hoped Israel\’s Supreme Court would resolve a years-long struggle for recognition in Israel.
Naomi Segal
A Call to Action
April 13, 2000
Natan Sharansky, Israel\’s interior minister, said he empathizes with the suffering of the 18,000 Ethiopians who have gathered at dusty transit camps, and he promised to streamline the process of applying for immigration to Israel.
ERA –Israeli Style
April 6, 2000
The Knesset has passed a landmark law granting equal rights to women in every sphere of Israeli life — after the bill\’s sponsor gave up her committee seat to a male colleague.
Along with granting women equality in the workplace, the military and in other spheres of society, the new law also lays out the rights of women over their bodies and protects women from violence and sexual exploitation.
Border Bravado
April 6, 2000
Israel is downplaying threats that it will suffer cross-border attacks once it withdraws its troops from southern Lebanon.
Ever since the Cabinet approved the withdrawal a month ago, there has been speculation that Hezbollah gunmen would attack communities in northern Israel.
This week there was a new threat, issued by Lebanon\’s defense minister, that Syria would send its army into southern Lebanon if Israel withdraws from the area.
History in the Making
March 23, 2000
By the time the transplant team approached Doris Ullendorf and Ken Gorfinkle, they had already talked about donating the organs of their first-born son.
Israel to Release Eichmann’s Memoirs
March 2, 2000
Israel has decided to release the memoirs Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann wrote prior to his execution in Israel in 1962.
The Temperature’s Rising
July 1, 1999
The attacks marked the heaviest cross-border violence since a cease-fire in 1996 ended with Operation Grapes of Wrath, Israel\’s 16-day campaign in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
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