Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Aly Raisman will be inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
Paul Auster is best known and often praised for his postmodernist novels and short stories, including \”The New York Trilogy\” and \”Sunset Park,\” but his lifetime of literary achievement actually began with a 1982 memoir, \”The Invention of Solitude,\” his first published work under his own name.
A growing number of once proud, working-class Israeli families are being transformed into the \”working poor,\” as they\’ve failed to keep up with increased taxes as well as rising food and gas prices. Without the assistance of outreach social service organizations such as Meir Panim, the Mirilashvili family might have endured more than one Rosh Hashanah on the streets of Israel. Instead, they are not only regaining their independence but are giving back to the community too.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, in his annual intelligence assessment to Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and the IDF general staff, warned on Monday that Israel will face an increasingly volatile region in the coming year, one that is \”more tense and Islamist in nature than before.\”
The verdict by an Israeli court in the case of Rachel Corrie, an American activist killed in Gaza by an Israeli military bulldozer in 2003, may have captured international attention and touched on a range of ethical issues at the center of Israel’s military operations.
Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter reportedly is “battling for his life.”
Turkey\’s minister for European affairs, Egemen Bagis, has called circumcision bans in Germany \”a danger for liberty.\”
Nine Jewish teens were indicted in the attack on three Palestinians in Jerusalem that left one of the victims seriously injured.
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