Rabbi Rachmiel Steinberg and his family were finishing their Shavuot meal last Friday afternoon when a loud drone drew their attention to the window. His son, Levi Yitzchak, screamed, \”Tati, that airplane is going into the building.\” They heard a thunderous crash and then saw plumes of heavy black smoke billowing skyward.
A documentary about an old-age home. Sound like a snoozefest?
Try this experiment: Put your hands in your pockets and try to explain to someone — verbally — how to tie shoes. It\’s an exercise in frustration, because there are certain things you can learn by description, and there are others that can only be learned in the doing — learned not by words and concepts, but by involving fingers, hands and heart.
Two steps forward, three steps back.\n\nThat is the definition of any Middle East peace process, and the most important question now is whether President Bush, who very publicly committed himself to a \”road map to peace\” last month, will tough it out.
The latest book to charge into the battle of the media, \”What Liberal Media?: The Truth About \’Bias\’ and the News,\” by Nation columnist Eric Alterman, attempts to give ammunition to the liberal side.
\”We will not allow anyone to drag us into a civil war,\” declared Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on June 8.
His disloyal opposition — Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Yasser Arafat\’s Al Aqsa suicide brigades — sent a different message to Abbas and other Arab leaders who had just met with President Bush in Aqaba.
I recently joined some 30 volunteers from a dozen countries as part of Sar-El Volunteers For Israel to work with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). As a Christian Zionist on his third visit to Israel this year, I was mostly united in purpose with the others who came at the outset of the war against Iraq.
Medical oncologist Dr. Daniel Lieber reached a breaking point two years ago. Israel\’s poor economic state had him so concerned that he began moonlighting as a volunteer for State of Israel Bonds Development Corporation for Israel (DCI), primarily trying to induce doctors to invest their pension money.
Aviva Slesin\’s affecting but unsentimental documentary focuses on the psychological aftermath of hiding, such as the sense of abandonment child survivors carried into adulthood and the difficulty rebonding with parents.
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