Conspiracy of Censorship
Eric Silver
October 16, 1997
Israeli reporters are no slouches. They have better sources and tend to understand more than their foreign brethren.
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Postcards from Israel
Ruth Stroud
October 16, 1997
In every picture, Melissa Kahn is smiling — whether covered with mud at the Dead Sea, riding a donkey up Mount Canaan or hiking from the Mediterranean to Lake Kineret. Kahn, 16, a junior at Harvard-Westlake School, mused recently about the eight weeks shes pent in Israel last summer on the Bureau of Jewish Education\’s Los Angeles Ulpan program.
Oh, What a Tangled Web…
Eric Silver
October 9, 1997
The botched assassination attempt on a Hamas official in Amman onSept. 25 has turned into a security, as well as a diplomatic,disaster for Israel. Commentators are calling for the resignations ofboth Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and chief of the Mossadexternal security service, Gen. Danny Yatom.
Murder Sparks U.S.-Israel Flap
Jewish Journal
October 9, 1997
Amid the bizarre string of foreign-policy fiascos in which Israelfound itself mired as it greeted the new year, surely none was quiteso bizarre as the case of runaway teenager Samuel Sheinbein ofMaryland.
Back in Thyme
Rob Eshman
October 9, 1997
Israel\’s newest weapon in its battle for economic well-being andworldwide acceptance is a tall, thin New Yorker with a great lambrecipe.\n\nHer name is Rozanne Gold.
Fields: Support for Israel is ‘Conditional’
Tom Tugend
October 9, 1997
Relations between the Diaspora and Israel \”were torn apart by a lethal combination of rising Orthodox fanaticism and a Netanyahu government that\’s pandering to increasingly crude Orthodox political coercion,\” said Wilshire Boulevard Temple\’s Rabbi Harvey J. Fields, among the American Reform movement\’s most prominent leaders.
Power Over
Eric Silver
October 2, 1997
Manasreh\’s tale is part of a pattern of official intimidation, physical and financial, that has silenced almost all criticism of Arafat\’s regime in the mainstream Palestinian television, radio and newspapers.
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