Vered Kashani, 29, was on the phone arranging hotel rooms for 22 Israeli terror victims scheduled to visit Los Angeles on Aug. 15, when she glanced at her computer and saw there had been an attack in the Emmanuel settlement in Israel.
\”Stalin is our fighting strength, Stalin is our youth…. Singing, struggling and victorious, our people go with Stalin.\” — from a popular Soviet song.
A report by Amnesty International calls Palestinian terror attacks on Israeli civilians \”crimes against humanity.\”
Middle East diplomacy shifted to New York this week amid widespread skepticism that there is any formula that can convince Israel and the Palestinians to make even slight progress toward peace.
Hirsh Goodman\’s attack on Norwegian herring ("No More Herring," June 21) disturbs my sense of fair play.
The low point of my week is reading the copy for our pages devoted to victims of Palestinian terror and violence.
A surge in violence this week cost more than two dozen Israelis their lives — and put Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\’s political life increasingly at peril.
Amid the profusion of billboards along Southern California freeways, motorists are being startled by a new one. It features seven smiling faces of various ethnicities, with one, a woman wearing a black headscarf, holding a small American flag.\n\n
The crowd that turned out in a driving rain last Sunday evening to hear experts discuss the terrorist threat was testament to at least one ongoing fact of life since Sept. 11: we\’re still scared.
Acuity, passion, the ability to hold several conflicting ideas at the same time, a wide-ranging and detailed understanding of the world we live in, and an ability to articulate a broad intellectual and moral vision — watching Bill Clinton last Monday night at the Universal Ampitheatre made me realize how much I miss these attributes in a president.\n\nThis is not a criticism of George W. Bush. I imagine he would be the first to acknowledge, with some pride, that he\’s no Bill Clinton. Among the crowd that pressed to touch flesh with Clinton in a post-speech reception, several people admitted that Clinton would probably have done no better, and maybe worse, than Bush in executing the war against Al Qaeda. Different men, different strengths and weaknesses.\n\nBut last Monday night, it was Clinton\’s gifts that were on display.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.