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Use Law to Respond to Hebrew University Attack

Stephen M. Flatow August 8, 2002

We\’ve seen it before — more than 20 dead and hundreds injured as a result of Palestinian Arab terror attacks in Israel within a week of each other. The death of five Americans at Hebrew University on Jerusalem\’s Mount Scopus brought the pain home to America once again. President Bush remarked, \”We are responding to a murder of Americans. We\’re responding all across the globe to murders of Americans….The war on terror is fought on many fronts. And I just — I cannot speak strongly enough about how we must collectively get after those who kill….\”

And following a wreath-laying on the Hebrew University campus, Daniel C. Kurtzer, U.S. ambassador to Israel, said, \”We are very committed in the war against terrorism and, in addition to the support that we give to the State of Israel as a partner in this war against terrorism, we will do all that we can to fight against terrorists wherever they are.\”

15 and Counting

Rob Eshman August 8, 2002

Washington\’s official response to the killings of five Americans at Hebrew University can be summed up largely in a word: words.

The Christian Right, Conservatism and the Jews

Joel Kotkin June 6, 2002

For generations, Jews have viewed religious conservatives with a combination of fear and disdain. Yet the recent events in the Middle East — and the steadfast support given Israel by religious conservatives — has gone a long way to correcting many often exaggerated, if not misplaced, assumptions about this large, and politically significant, group.

This Land Is Our Land

Rabbi Mimi Weisel June 6, 2002

You cannot remove other people\’s anxieties, but sometimes you can help them to understand their feelings of unease and find ways to cope with them.

Most Americans Mistrust Saudi Peace Plan

JTA Staff April 11, 2002

Only 26 percent of Americans believe the Saudi peace initiative is sincere, according to a new poll of more than 1,000 Americans. Thirty-one percent believe the Saudis launched the initiative to improve their image in the United States. Sixty-two percent of respondents believe the Saudis are not ready to accept Israel\’s right to exist.

The plan calls for the Arab world to make peace with Israel in return for a withdrawal from all lands Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. The survey, commissioned by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, has a margin of error of 3 percent.

The Chosen One

Michael Kamber March 14, 2002

I believed Daniel Pearl was dead all along.

Weeks before the U.S. government confirmed his death, I thought it unlikely he would return alive. I returned in December from reporting for the Village Voice from Pakistan, exhausted from being stoned, punched and chased by Islamic fundamentalists. I was burned out — and burned literally — from being pushed into one too many burning George Bush effigies, weary from having to repeatedly explain that Americans do not hate Muslims, and that \”no, it\’s not true that we enjoy seeing dead Afghan children on television.\”

Flourish, Not Fail

Rob Eshman November 29, 2001

The financial crisis facing Jewish Community Center (JCC) programs and locations this week will come as an awful shock to tens of thousands of area Jews, and it should (see story, page 14).\n\nJCC officials and Federation lay leaders and staff stress there is no cause for panic. They believe they can work out a way to save the majority of JCC programs and locations. (The Federation is the largest donor to the JCC system.) But there is no question that without immediate community response, the JCC system faces severe cutbacks.\n

Fundraising Fears

Michael Aushenker October 4, 2001

It is quickly becoming the largest philanthropic campaign ever mounted.

Love, Jewish-American Style

Michael Aushenker January 29, 1998

Despite the abundance of Jewish filmmakers in the entertainment industry, Jewish Americans fall somewhere ahead of Asian-Americans and well below Anglo- and African-Americans as a group represented on celluloid. And no one is more aware of that than film historian and author Harry Medved, whose \”Cinema Beshert: Meeting Your Mate at the Movies\” film series at the University of Judaism focuses on love,Jewish-American style.

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