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November 8, 2011
Other Israel Film Festival: ‘Torn’ and ’77 Steps’
The premise of \”Torn,\” a documentary premiering in the U.S. this week at The Other Israel Film Festival in New York, sounds a bit like the classic rabbi and priest walk into a bar joke. Except that unlike the joke, the Jew and the Christian in the film are one and the same — Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkninel.
Is Jerusalem in Israel? Supreme Court takes up passport case
The U.S. Supreme Court convened Monday to ponder the implications of a single word that is conspicuously missing from the passport of a 9-year-old boy who was born in Jerusalem.
At Denver GA, talking about connectivity and the lack of star power
If there was one message that the Jewish Federations of North America was trying to promote at this year’s General Assembly conference here, it was connectivity.
Experts: IAEA report makes case for tightened Iran sanctions
The international nuclear watchdog has spoken on Iran, and although its report does not have the smoking gun some had anticipated, it makes a cumulative case damning enough for the Obama administration to ask for increased sanctions.
Postcards From Hell: Nazi-era documents shed light on fate of families
After arriving by cattle car at Auschwitz, many Jews were handed postcards, with the uniform message thoughtfully prepared by the Nazis.
Peace Now activist’s home vandalized again
Threatening graffiti was spray painted on the home of a Peace Now activist, one day after the group\’s offices were evacuated due to a bomb threat.
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