Mel Gibson\’s \”muse\” is on the path to sainthood. Pope John Paul II this week beatified Anna Katharina Emmerick, a 19th-century German nun whose mystic visions inspired Gibson\’s gory depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus in \”The Passion of the Christ.\”
At about 3 p.m., June 1, 1941, everything changed for Iraq\’s Jews. No American Holocaust museum pays homage to their tragedy.
In Israel this week, televangelist Pat Robertson inveighed against giving territory to the Palestinians, claiming that the goal of Islam is to \”destroy Israel and take the land from the Jews and give East Jerusalem to Yasser Arafat.
Sabell Bender remembers when the New Beverly Cinema was the Globe Theater, a center of Yiddish drama in Los Angeles.
When obstetrician-gynecologist Ludmila Bess and her husband, a civil engineer, immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1977, they came with only $600 in their pockets.
American Jews have long been among the staunchest supporters of civil and immigrant rights. Jews stood at the forefront of the civil rights movement and continue to account for a disproportionate share of American Civil Liberties Union members.
She arrived in the Jerusalem court of King Solomon with camels weighted by gifts of gold, incense and precious stones. She was armed with questions to test the king\’s legendary wisdom. She eventually was thought to be his consort.
Jewish leaders are displeased with another mainline Protestant church\’s call for divestment of church funds from companies doing business with Israel, with Southern California clergy trying to quell what could be an interfaith nightmare.\n
The Body Shop, a British-based retailer of personal care products, is apologizing for a 2002 human rights award it gave to a Palestinian group.
On the eve of Simchat Torah, many synagogues auction the three major honors of the day, with proceeds benefiting the synagogue or other Jewish institutions.
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