"We have no intention of reconquering the Palestinian areas," Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told a news conference this week, repeating a common refrain of the Sharon government.
Holocaust survivors have been waiting decades to reclaim Holocaust-era insurance policies. Unfortunately, the findings of an ongoing congressional investigation I initiated indicate that their wait is far from over.
The Purim beauty pageant of 1956 is long forgotten in the shtetl that was Queens Village, N.Y. But for me it is the stuff of personal destiny.
In this week\’s portion, Israel is commanded to build an aron (ark) in which the tablets of the Ten Commandments will be placed.
She\’s called the socialist Joan of Arc. That\’s because writer and orator, Rosa Luxemburg, leader of the Communist Party of Germany in the 1910s, fought the national government until she was executed by the German military in 1919.
It is fitting that Los Angeles\’ current chief of police has a plural for a surname.
John Ostland spent 11 years, off and on in prison because of his drug addiction. He would steal anything of value to get money for his habit.
Brian Greene thinks of himself as a product of the University of Judaism (UJ).
Almost 60 years after they risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, a Dutch couple and a one-time Polish partisan will be honored as Righteous Among the Nations on Sunday, Feb. 17 at the annual luncheon of the 1939 Club.
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