Bush Ex Machina
The low point of my week is reading the copy for our pages devoted to victims of Palestinian terror and violence.
The low point of my week is reading the copy for our pages devoted to victims of Palestinian terror and violence.
\”Promises\” is a beautiful documentary and, in light of the daily body count of Israeli and Palestinian victims, a heartbreaking film. Considered a favorite for best documentary at this year\’s Academy Awards, \”Promises\” was filmed in and around Jerusalem between 1997 and 2000, while the Oslo treaty hopes for peace were still flickering.\n\n
Syria\’s president backed a Saudi plan for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.
Just when you thought things in Israel couldn\’t possibly get worse, a new novel comes along to prove that you don\’t know the half of it.
Her eyes, I think, will stay with me forever. Imploring, beseeching, full of so much sadness.
Raphaella Segal acts like an enthusiastic booster from any small town eager to lure new residents.
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.
As introduction to Judaism course director and director of Reform Jewish Outreach for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), Pacific Southwest Council, our observations do not square with the views expressed in a recent Jewish Journal article (\”Opposing Intermarriage,\” March 9).
It was wonderful to see an article written about my son, but I was pained when it failed to mention he had a father (\”Zachary\’s Legacy,\” Feb. 9). Zachary was not raised by his mother alone.