My editor recently suggested that as long as I was writing something called \”Singles,\” it might be helpful if I actually went out on a date every once in a while. Research. Give the column the ring of verisimilitude.
It\’s one thing you can take to the bank: Every time a new Middle East crisis explodes on the world\’s front pages, there\’s another hue and cry in the Jewish world about the need for better hasbara (public relations).
The 16-month-old intifada has taken its toll on American-supported projects in Palestinian areas, with money being shifted from infrastructure, health care and natural resources to more basic needs for a people in economic collapse.
More than any other Israeli politician, Yossi Beilin has a knack for saying things that many other people are thinking but will not say, and he has just done it again.
Israeli officials are angrily dismissing claims that the Wall Street Journal reporter abducted in Pakistan works for the Mossad, Israel\’s foreign intelligence service.
The hardest part about writing about brain radiation is writing the words \”brain radiation.\” I assure you that I\’m OK. It\’s my fingers that are typing these words on my computer. It\’s my thoughts that are deciding which of the Yip Harburg lyrics from the Scarecrow\’s song, \”If I Only Had a Brain,\” I should use later in this piece.
The crowd that turned out in a driving rain last Sunday evening to hear experts discuss the terrorist threat was testament to at least one ongoing fact of life since Sept. 11: we\’re still scared.
"They are like mice," said Yeheskel Abu-Zwilli, a 74-year-old Iraqi-born Israeli, surveying the wreckage of the photography shop he has run in Jerusalem\’s Jaffa Street for 45 years. "Wherever there\’s a hole, they sneak in."
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