Israeli soldiers delivered a Palestinian woman\’s baby boy inside a military ambulance. The woman, a resident of the Jordan Valley, called for help early Monday morning, according to the Israel Defense Forces. She lives in an area unreachable by ambulance, so the soldiers gave the family a stretcher to bring her to the waiting ambulance.
Susanne Bier, whose Danish film, “In a Better World,” is a favorite for Oscar honors, is an anomaly.
What’s Jewish about Valentine’s Day? The day was first released from the purview of the Catholic Church in 1969, when Pope Paul VI declared that Valentine’s Day was no longer a saint’s day for universal liturgical veneration on the Catholic calendar. This restored Valentine’s Day to its original state, a traditional mating day of birds — and humans — in the English folk calendar.
Driving along the Israel-Egypt border near this southern Israeli town, rusted metal posts strung with barbed wire give way to sand dunes and an exposed, open border as wide open as the question of what will become of the countries\’ relations now that Egypt is in turmoil.
Feb. 11 marks 25 years since Natan Sharansky crossed the Glienicke Bridge from East to West Germany and became a free man. Countless stories have been told about Sharansky’s defiance of the Soviets and his courageous actions during his more than nine years of imprisonment.
The Muslim Brotherhood\’s English website rejected claims that the Egyptian protests are aimed at creating an Islamic state.
Former President George W. Bush canceled a planned appearance at a Keren Hayesod fundraiser in Geneva because of planned protests. Bush was to be the featured speaker at a Feb. 12 dinner for the group, the daily Le Tribune de Geneve reported on Feb. 5.
A Swedish neo-Nazi leader who organized the theft of the \”Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from Auschwitz was transferred to Sweden to serve his three-year prison sentence. Anders Hogstrom was handed over to Swedish officials on Monday at Krakow Airport, according to reports.
Jewish themes abound among National Book Critics Circle award finalists. Among the five fiction finalists are Israeli author David Grossman\’s \”To the End of the Land\” and \”Comedy in a Minor Key,\” by Hans Keilson, a German-born Jew now living in the Netherlands. The awards will be handed out in New York on March 10.
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