Mahmoud Abbas offered the Western Wall and Jerusalem\’s Jewish Quarter to remain under Israel\’s control as part of a peace settlement, an Arabic newspaper reported.
If I hadn’t seen the word plastered on a billboard on La Brea Avenue, I would never have remotely considered using it in print myself. But there it is, in a five-foot font, just a few miles from the West Hollywood club where Lenny Bruce was arrested for saying it in 1963. Soon, no doubt, promoting a movie that will open on July 30, it will be seen on buses and benches and 30-second television ads airing in family-friendly prime time, and on the robotic lips of Mr. Moviephone: “Please confirm your order! You have purchased TWO tickets for the 7:20 showing of DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS.”
Rabbi Paul Dubin was the Board of Rabbis\’ first executive director, an interfaith advocate and community leader.
Turkey\’s foreign minister has threatened to cut ties with Israel unless it apologizes for its deadly interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, a Turkish newspaper reported.
The Palestinian terror group leader who said he planned the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics has died.
Israel released its blacklist of goods that will not be permitted to enter the Gaza Strip.
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