Complaining the Jewish Way
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
January 14, 1999
Schwartz, a wealthy Jew, took ill in Boston. The medics rushed him to the best hospital, Mass General, where he received VIP treatment.
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Bibi’s Betrayal
Eric Silver
October 29, 1998
\”Binyamin Netanyahu is no longer the leader of the national camp,\” Aharon Domb, general secretary of the West Bank and Gaza Jewish settlers\’ council, said this week, with all the finality of a judge pronouncing sentence.
Retracing History
Tom Tugend
September 17, 1998
Israel\’s 50th anniversary celebration has brought forth a stream of reminiscences.
The Russian Meltdown
James D
September 3, 1998
For several years, Soviet Jewry activists in this country — the term seems archaic, but nothing better has been invented — have complained that their communal colleagues are ignoring the fate of the world\’s biggest endangered Jewish population.
Cover Story
Beverly Gray
August 13, 1998
To many American Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s, Zionism, the ancient dream of a Jewish homeland that spawned a political movement and the birth of Israel almost 50 years ago, is little more than a footnote in a Sunday-school textbook.
Power, Politics And People
Jewish Journal
August 13, 1998
During his bizarre, self-incriminating appearance on the witness stand at the close of his terrorism trial in Brooklyn federal court last month, 24-year-old Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer freely admitted nearly every accusation thrown at him by prosecutors. But not the knife.
Scars Fall on Alabama
Jewish Journal
July 16, 1998
Close to half the Reform temples in Alabama are named \”Emanuel,\” which is Hebrew for \”God is with us.\” Jews all over the state are hoping it proves true this fall, when voters pick a governor.
The Arts
Skip Heller
June 18, 1998
As Israel nears its 50th birthday, events have shifted attentionaway from the stalled peace talks. What dominates the headlines nowis the warlike rhetoric among Jewish factions — both within Israeland in the Diaspora — as they clash over the issue of religiouspluralism.
Casting His Vote
Ivor Davis
May 14, 1998
Sixty one and still full of surprises, that\’sWarren Beatty. This weekend, Beatty goes head to head at the boxoffice with \”The Horse Whisperer,\” starring that other senior iconRobert Redford. Redford, like his contemporary Beatty, not only starsbut also directs and produces his movie. May the best man win.
Taking the First Step
Jewish Journal
April 8, 1998
More than 40 rabbis, from Orthodox to Reform, look for ways to increase respect among Jews
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