Looking 10 years down the road, I don\’t know whose control will yield the brighter future for the centers themselves and their current and future clients. Both organizations have promise and problems.
Human rights activist Medea Benjamin held up photo after photo from her recent trip to Afghanistan, each telling a unique horror story.
This week, Atlas spoke at B\’nai David-Judea Congregation in Los Angeles to a small but passionately concerned group of local Jews about the state of affairs in Israel and about the phenomenal impact of Arutz 7 (Channel 7) in particular.
When the intifada began in September 2000, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, Israel, received a call at 3:30 a.m. The lady on the other end, with a deep European accent, asked, "Rabbi Riskin, do you know who this is?"
What, any rational person might wonder, is there left to talk about?
The U.S. State Department will now include American victims of Palestinian terror on its Rewards for Justice Program, which offers \”substantial monetary rewards\”for information leading to the arrest or conviction of people responsible for acts of terrorism.
In the Arabic world, education systems are riven with notions antithetical to the values of tolerance and understanding that are so intently promoted in the West. In recent years, the signal failures of those systems to reverse years of misguided teachings appear to be dooming the region to years of further conflict.
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the resulting weak economy and high unemployment have been affecting Los Angeles Jewish businesses in a variety of ways.
A downward economic cycle, exacerbated by the dot-com/technologies bust and the recent Sept. 11 attacks, has taken its toll on segments of the Jewish nonprofit world.
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