On Nov. 28, as nearly everyone now knows, two missiles were fired at an Israeli commercial airliner taking off from Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kenya.
The missiles narrowly missed the plane, and the aircraft continued safely to Israel.
The handling of the October hostage crisis in a Moscow theater is only one of the examples of a Russian attitude that is incomprehensible to the average Westerner.
I spent most of this past week at the United Jewish Communities (UJC) General Assembly (GA), the annual gathering which, this year, brought nearly 4,000 Jewish communal representatives (and journalists) from North America, Israel and elsewhere overseas.
Since last Sunday, a question has been running around in my head and troubling my sleep: What induced the young Palestinian, who broke into Kibbutz Metzer, to aim his weapon at a mother and her two little children and kill them?
There are few locations in the Middle East that excite fiercer debate than the Jewish community of Hebron.
Dear Rabbi Wolpe,
I admit it.
As an Orthodox rabbi, I\’m genuinely embarrassed at the moment.
Judging by the recent goings-on in the Jewish book publishing world, where certain Orthodox authors have been taken to task for their controversial writings and books have either been banned, forcibly censored or book tours were canceled, it would seem that we don\’t have our act completely together.
The new International Criminal Court sounds like such a good idea, why would either the United States or Israel oppose it?
And now, as we are on the brink of war with Iraq, \”The Protocols\” has arisen, phoenix-like, in the land of ancient civilizations, in a new mass-media guise. It is the inspiration of the script of \”Horse Without a Horseman.\”
