We are trekking through Toledo, Spain, happily reverting for a moment to a band of carefree tourists when we are halted in our tracks by a sight we had not expected.
There is a new High Holiday book on my shelf that I have been assiduously avoiding, if only because of the ominous title: "This Is Real and You You Are Completely Unprepared."
The bus bombing in Jerusalem demonstrates, as nothing else could, that there is no alternative to implementing President Bush\’s \”road map\” in all its parts.
It has been a great year in Jewish studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU). The program enjoys surging enrollments.
The terrorist who blew himself up on a crowded Jerusalem bus Tuesday night did more than murder 20 Israelis and injure more than 100 others.
When the Oslo accords collapsed three years ago with the Palestinian Arabs\’ launching of mass violence against Israel, numerous American Jewish leaders publicly admitted that they had been wrong all along about Oslo — wrong to believe the Palestinian Arabs wanted peace, wrong to ignore Palestinian Arab violations of the accords, such as anti-Jewish and anti-Israel incitement, and wrong to sit by silently as the U.S. pressured Israel to make more one-sided concessions.
Just shy of 3 percent of California\’s population, Jews represent an estimated 5 percent of the state\’s registered voters. In a race that analysts predict will hinge on a minority of votes, a minority\’s voting bloc will be crucial.
