With the United States stepping up military and diplomatic preparations for a possible strike against Iraq, much of Israel was focused this week on when a war might break out and whether it would affect Israel.
Picture a middle-aged Jewish Persian couple who have lived in the United States for years and are concerned about what goes on with their children in this strange and foreign country. They are upset that their daughter disobeys them by studying photography, not medicine, at college, and they cannot understand the comings and goings of their English-speaking younger daughter, because they don\’t speak English very well.
One Friday night 33 years ago, when Yisroel Richtberg was 12 years old, an older boy sneaked into his dorm room at his Chasidic yeshiva in Israel, pulled off Richtberg\’s pajama pants and raped him. The same thing happened the next Shabbat.
In his 35-year career, Rabbi Juda Mintz established a Jewish youth group in Montreal, founded a traditional congregation and a campus Hillel in Atlanta and led more than 50 missions to Israel — all without the aid of a computer.
niel Libeskind is coming back to New York to help heal the wounds created on Sept. 11. He won\’t be working with words or medicine but with stone, cement, glass and steel.
Students of political irony are having a banner year. A Republican president who campaigned against \”nation building\” is on the brink of a war intended to rebuild not just a nation — Iraq — but an entire region. And conservatives, long the archenemies of deficit spending, are suddenly embracing budgets awash in red ink.
The Democratic Party may be about to experience a battle for its Jewish soul. Less than a year before the first primary, the field for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination has turned into a crowd, but two names have special significance for Jewish voters and the politicians who woo them: Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and the Rev. Al Sharpton — the cautious, conservative lawmaker and the rhetorical bomb thrower.
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As the Israeli army mounted a major operation in the Gaza Strip this week, questions were being asked about the ability of Israel\’s new, right-wing government to advance the peace process with the Palestinians.
At first, investment entrepreneur Judy Resnick did not realize that her daughter, Stacey Shiffman, was carrying a genetically transmitted disease.
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