Torah Makes Dangerous Trek
Jeanine Mercer
December 16, 1999
A group of female Jewish scholars recently danced joyously with a 200-year-old Iraqi tradition — a Torah once held prisoner by Saddam Hussein.
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Opportunity Missed
James D
November 19, 1998
As U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq this week and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf stood down from high alert, the world breathed a sigh of relief after yet another race to the brink with Saddam Hussein.
The Big Fear
Larry Derfner
February 5, 1998
There was such a crush of people at the gas-mask distribution center in Tel Aviv\’s Central Bus Station this week that a portable fence had to be set up at the doorway — just to keep people from pushing their way in.
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