Palestinian suicide bombers killed a total of 28 bus passengers and young people in a four-day orgy of blood and vengeance that stretched from Haifa and Hadera in the North to Jerusalem in the South.
The queries have come in steadily since the great increase in suicide bombings by Muslim Palestinians during the past year, but since Sept. 11, they have come virtually non-stop.
The contrite courtroom assertion was in sharp contrast to his initial statement to FBI agents that spraying 70 bullets at children and workers at the North Valley Jewish Community Center was \”a wake-up call to America to kill Jews.\”
A bagel and lox and cup of coffee later, the captain announced officially that we were beginning our approach into New York\’s JFK and that America had a new President, George W. Bush. Gasps and moans were audible throughout the cabin.
Over the next few months, Jewish life is going to get a lot more interesting than most of us would like. It\’s summer, and we\’re in for a hot one.
Three in five adults report that their level of Jewish involvement has changed substantially over the course of their adult lives. Remarkably, their involvement is nearly as likely to have increased as to have declined.What\’s constant is change. American Jews continually adapt and reinvent their identities throughout their adult lives.
Last January, when the world first learned of Lewinsky, the presidential sex scandal triggered a sudden mood swing in U.S.-Israel relations.
Netanyahu came to America an embattled primeminister on May 13. He left four days later a conquering hero, buoyedby a reception in the Jewish community that aides said exceeded theirwildest expectations.
As Rabbi Allen Freehling of University Synagogue in West Los Angeles and a bus load of bishops and rabbis left the Rome airport for their hotel near the Vatican, one of the bishops read aloud a document that would soon spark a firestorm of controversy around the world: the Vatican\’s March 16 statement on the Holocaust, released just hours before. The group had just flown in from Israel, where they had spent a week worshiping together, learning about each other\’s histories, and beginning to understand, as only true friends can, what the other believes.
Gangs of masked, Yiddish-speaking thugs in Brooklyn have been abducting Orthodox Jewish men and beating them savagely to force them into granting their wives a religious divorce,or get, according to several men who say they were victims of such assaults.The beatings allegedly were ordered by an Orthodox rabbinical court.\n
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