August 15, 2002

Hess Kramer Gets Wacky

Rachel Brand August 15, 2002

Petroleum jelly-covered watermelon relays, gunk-filled balloon popping and prom dress-clad swimming pool races — not your typical day at Camp Hess Kramer in Malibu.

Family and close friends buried slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl Sunday morning and vowed that his example would continue to inspire \”millions of friends and strangers touched by his life and death.\”

Parshat KiTetze

Abby Gilad August 15, 2002

This week\’s parsha is concerned with mitzvot — mitzvot in time of war, mitzvot concerning marriage, mitzvot concerning lost property, mitzvot concerning animals.

Mistrust in the Mideast

Leslie Susser August 15, 2002

The wheels are spinning beneath the battered chassis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but the brakes are being applied by that perennial opponent of Mideast progress: mistrust.

The Hunger Question

Gil Sedan August 15, 2002

"We will never go hungry," Ahmad Zughayer boasted as a truck from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) unloaded sacks of flour, sugar, oil, rice and milk powder in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.

A Confident Failure

Larry Derfner August 15, 2002

Talk about cognitive dissonance. The mood in Israel may never have been so hopeless, the indices of quality of life may never have pointed so sharply downward, and yet the calmest, most content person in the country appears to be Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.