Every year, the retelling of the story of Passover sparks the same intergenerational debate around our family\’s seder table. Like singing \”Dayenu\” or eating charoset, we look forward to our traditional discussion of the nature and extent of anti-Semitism. My father, with my grandmother cheering on, argues that anti-Semitism is alive and, alas, well.
Pfizer\’s Viagra, the anti-impotence drug, contains chametz and therefore is not kosher for Passover, rabbis say.
It was my third seder of the week, but this one was unlike any other. It was a "Seder of Women\’s Voices," and I felt privileged to be one of the few men in the room among a 150 or so women.
I have heard people refer to the process of meeting someone as "the dating minefield."
Nearly 150 volunteers, who phoned local residents for pledges earlier this month, raised $260,911 for the Jewish Federation of Orange County, a 50 percent increase over the $171,081 raised during last year\’s Super Sunday.
When Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser swept into Khartoum for an Arab summit less than three months after the Arab debacle in the 1967 Six-Day War, he was greeted like a hero.
Newsweek ran a cover story titled, \”Hail to the Conquered!\” The summit passed the notorious \”three no\’s\” defining future relations with Israel: No negotiations, no recognition and no peace.
In July the following year, Nasser took a young Yasser Arafat, traveling on an Egyptian passport under the name of Muhsin Amin, with him to Moscow on an arms shopping spree.
Two U.N. observers were shot and killed, reportedly by Palestinian gunmen, in the West Bank.
Suppose for a second that Israel strikes a cease-fire deal with Yasser Arafat. Would the Palestinian Authority president be able to deliver? Arafat himself may not know for sure, as the extent of control he retains over the many military factions he has created or allowed to flourish in his territory is unclear.
Jews in more than 100 communities across the nation gathered on Sunday, March 24, to show their support for Israel — a welcome, if hastily organized, expression of solidarity as the Jewish state faces continuing terrorism and an increasingly treacherous diplomatic climate.
I was looking through my closet this morning for a spring outfit to match the warmer weather, and I found his T-shirt. It\’s a red T-shirt with the Fox label — Israel\’s closest version of the Gap.
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