Israel stands at a crossroads once again, threatened from within by the lack of solidarity and crisis of trust between the Israeli government and the middle class. Israel is also threatened from without by the ‘’Palestinian September’’ as the Palestinians take their case for an independent State to the United Nations.
“Have you ever been to the Jama Masjid?” The little girl looks up at me with bright, intelligent eyes, the yellow of jaundice and malnutrition already receding from around her irises, a brightly colored scarf hiding the long, curved scar rising up from just behind her ear. She is one of our newer girls. She had arrived two weeks earlier while I was out of town, and we had just met.
A former employee of a Boston-area high-tech company pleaded guilty to handing over trade secrets to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.
A foreign worker has accused the Israeli prime minister\’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, of mistreating and assaulting her.
A Jewish organization in Britain has called on Madame Tussauds to make its wax replica of Hitler look more defeated.
When unthinkable disaster struck a decade ago and close to 3,000 people were murdered at the World Trade Center, the scale of destruction created a unique challenge for victims’ families: identification of the dead.
Rep. Michele Bachmann became the latest presidential hopeful to meet with Orthodox Jewish leaders to discuss Jewish and Israel positions.
Hamas has barred a group of Palestinian teenagers awarded scholarships to study in the United States from leaving Gaza.
One of the most daunting challenges facing Jewish communities in North America is the high cost of living an Orthodox lifestyle.
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