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June 13, 2002

NPR Reaching Out to Jews, Arabs

Saron Samber June 13, 2002

National Public Radio (NPR) has mounted a public relations campaign among Jews and Arabs in an effort to avoid being known as National Protest Radio.

At the same moment that the president of NPR was addressing Jewish newspaper editors in Chicago about coverage of the Middle East, the ombudsman for NPR was talking about the very same thing to an Arab group in Washington.

The speeches on June 7 were part of an outreach effort by the nonprofit radio organization to convince its listeners that its reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is both fair and unbiased.

World Briefs

Jewish Journal June 13, 2002

President Bush spoke out in defense of Israel and reiterated his criticism of Yasser Arafat. "Israel has a right to defend herself," Bush told reporters June 10 as he met in the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Netanyahu’s Tactical Mistake

David Newman June 13, 2002

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a major tactical blunder when he pushed through the vote in the Likud Party central committee to the effect that they would no longer discuss or consider the future establishment of a Palestinian state as a means to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. Not only did he lose public support inside Israel, not only did he lose the international image he has taken so long to build up in the foreign news media, especially in the United States, but more important than all that, he tried to force his party into adopting a policy that is passé. The decision of the Likud Party was, to put it simply, meaningless.

Taking the West Bank Off the Chopping Block

Rabbi Dov Fischer June 13, 2002

The recent landslide vote of the Israeli Likud Party, utterly rejecting an Arab country west of the Jordan River, reflects the evolving mindset of the largest political party in Israel.

Fierce Determination

Teresa Strasser June 13, 2002

I admit, it doesn\’t sound pleasant. You enter a room that\’s been heated to above 100 degrees. The heat isn\’t as suffocating as the odor, a wall of smell that hits you like a thousand stinky shoes.

Careful With That Pizza!

Naomi Segal June 13, 2002

Mushrooms, peppers and extra cheese, please — but hold the explosives. Concerns about booby-trapped pizzas have led the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to impose restrictions on the use of a Web site that allows users to spice up the Israeli army service by sending pies to soldiers.

Inuit All Along

Journal Staff June 13, 2002

Call him Norman of the North — or the Wandering Jew.

That\’s the best way to explain how cinematographer Norman Cohn of Washington Heights, N.Y., moved to the Canadian Arctic and shot the first Inuit-language feature film. He was the only non-Inuit to work on Zacharius Kunuk\’s \”The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat),\” based on an ancient epic about a community torn apart by jealousy. The haunting film won a top 2001 Cannes prize and was deemed a \”masterpiece\” by The New York Times.

Dissent in Los Angeles

Gene Lichtenstein June 13, 2002

A few weeks ago, two Israeli army reservists came to Los Angeles to explain why they (members of an organization called Yesh Gvul), and perhaps 450 of their fellow reservists, refused to serve their time of duty in the Occupied Territories.

Come to the Cabaret

Tom Tugend June 13, 2002

On Sept. 6, 1941, the Nazis crammed 20,000 Lithuanian Jews into the Vilna ghetto. On Sept. 9, 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and its remaining 12,000 Jews were marked for extermination.\n\nRemarkably, during the two years of its existence, the ghetto supported a thriving theater, orchestra and cabaret, where patrons in their best finery laughed, wept and applauded, though they might be deported the next day.

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