Is It Safe?
Mike Levy
September 13, 2001
In light of Tuesday\’s terrorist attacks, synagogues and other Jewish organizations scrambled to evaluate security precautions.
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The Debate
Rob Eshman
August 16, 2001
Another gut-wrenching week. With the murder of American Shoshana Greenbaum by a Palestinian suicide bomber, the violence in Israel turned even more tragic, if that is possible, and even more personal.
Israel Is Not Alone
Yuval Rotem
July 26, 2001
This past Sunday thousands of individuals, representing the full spectrum of the Jewish community\’s diversity of thought and opinion, gathered on Wilshire Boulevard to express solidarity with the people of Israel.
The Games Must Go On
Mike Levy
June 21, 2001
After weeks of debate, organizers of Israel\’s 16th Maccabiah Games announced last Friday that the Olympics-style sporting competition will open as planned July 16 in Jerusalem, despite widespread individual cancellations due to fears of violence.
Shalhevet Experiences Israel
Judy Lash Balint
June 7, 2001
Even as organizations are canceling their summer Israel programs, for some teens already in Israel the experience is proving invaluable.
A Normal Israel, in Agoura
Sheldon Teitelbaum
April 26, 2001
About two months ago, Dr. Mark Capritto, the tough-minded vice principal of Agoura High School, came face-to-face with one of Zionism\’s most unusual developments: a nice Jewish gang.
Peace and Processing
Stuart Schoffman
April 26, 2001
On a recent Tuesday even-ing, 24 hours before the arrival of Yom HaShoah, I attended a symposium in Jerusalem on a subject both intriguing and urgent: "To Acknowledge the Suffering of the \’Other\’: Religious Obligation, Psychological Challenge."
Bush Administration Feels Its Way
James D. Besser
April 26, 2001
If you had to pick a word to summarize the mood among American Jewish leaders as they watch the Bush administration deal with surging Israeli-Palestinian violence, it is this: uncertainty.
Straws in the Wind
Eric Silver
April 26, 2001
Israelis have learned the hard way not to invest too many hopes in Yasser Arafat. Yet this week, despite the suicide bombing in Kfar Saba, the booby-trapped car in Or Yehuda, the renewed sniping at the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo, straws are wafting in the diplomatic wind.
The Toll of Violence
Daniel Gordis
March 22, 2001
Friday night, the kids had gone to bed, and we found ourselves in the living room with some long-overdue quiet time. I was reading Tom Segev\’s book, \”One Palestine, Complete,\” a revisionist account of the British Mandate, at a point in the book in which he spells out the seemingly unending cycle of violence between Jews and Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.
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