Thanksgiving was always a day spent eating good food and watching some (hopefully) good football at my house. But in my husband\’s family, Thanksgiving was truly a day of giving thanks, as each year his grandfather, J. Alex Link, spoke about his gratitude to the United States for taking him in on the eve of the Holocaust.
You cannot sit in Iowa or Los Angeles or Washington for that matter, and think you know the streets of Ramallah, Gaza or Jerusalem.
World powers will meet to discuss Iran\’s nuclear program after the Islamic Republic said it would not export its uranium for further enrichment.
A fired waiter, a Russian immigrant to Israel, was charged with killing his ex-employer and five members of his family.
A Lebanese citizen accused of spying for Israel was arrested by the Lebanese security service.
An Arab man was stabbed in Jerusalem apparently by a Jewish youth.
A Holocaust denier released from an Australian jail after publishing material offensive to Jews says he is \”unbroken\” and \”unrepentant.\”
Israeli Itzhak Moreno holds a sack of freshly picked, plump olives, purple and ripe for the press.
Cantor Sharon Bernstein sits down at the electric piano in a room filled with Jewish academics and Yiddish linguists, and launches into an early 20th-century Yiddish song.
Israeli airstrikes hit targets in Gaza in response to a Kassam rocket fired into the Negev.
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