The modern era of global terrorism was launched on Sept. 6, 1970, when Palestinian hijackers tried to seize four commercial airliners bound for New York and land them at a remote landing strip in the Jordanian desert. Until Sept. 11, the date was known as \”the blackest day in aviation history.\”
Local and national Jewish organizations have mobilized to help tsunami victims and invite the community to participate, as well.\n\n
\”People wear this jewelry to make a statement,\” Yael Swerdlow said, \”and we hope to make ours.\”
What would happen if a Palestinian terrorist were to detonate a bomb at the entrance to an apartment building in Israel and cause the death of an elderly man in a wheelchair, who would later be found buried under the rubble of the building? The country would be profoundly shocked.
This week a friend confessed to me his problem with fasting on Tisha B\’av. My friend is Orthodox and Israeli — an alumnus of one of the elite hesder yeshivas — and he felt that it would be wrong for him to fast this year on Tisha B\’Av.
Last week at the Santa Monica Farmers\’ Market, I got a taste of what it is like to be an Israeli. Going about the ordinary tasks of life one moment, standing next to a corpse the next.
During Jewish holidays and festivals, many of us recite the familiar blessings for our loved ones.
It\’s bad enough that Israeli doctors are spending their lives in emergency rooms treating Jewish and Arab victims of suicide bombers. What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
We arrived at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where some 2,000 victims have been treated during the current intifada, less than 24 hours after a particularly horrific bus bombing in Jerusalem. Hours earlier, teams of Jewish-Arab doctors had done what they\’ve done for the past two years: jumped into action to save the lives of the critically injured.
The new Toys for Chanukah campaign comes hot on the heels of IESF\’s Rosh Hashana Honey campaign — when you, dear readers, sent honey for a sweet new year to Israeli victims of terror, IDF soldiers and friends and family in Israel.
The stench in New York after Sept. 11 reminded Julia Millman of Europe.
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