What’s in the Center?
Every so often, the cultural gap between Israelis and American Jews yawns open so wide, you could almost fall in and break your leg.
Every so often, the cultural gap between Israelis and American Jews yawns open so wide, you could almost fall in and break your leg.
Let us not, for the moment, worry about President Clinton, since he obviously can take care of himself.
Whatever others may say of it, Jewish history will surely record 1998 as the Year of Bill and Bibi.
Now that the race for prime minister is on, the main challenger, Labor Party leader Ehud Barak, has suddenly become dynamic.
The New York Times devoted 1,500 words last Sunday to a biographical profile of Monica Lewinsky, the 24-year-old woman who allegedly had an 18-month affair with President Clinton and who has been accused of lying about it under oath.
Last January, when the world first learned of Lewinsky, the presidential sex scandal triggered a sudden mood swing in U.S.-Israel relations.
Properly run, supporters say, the court could serve as a deterrent to the kinds of horrifying atrocities seen in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Interfaith understanding will take a big leapforward this spring.
On May 18, a group of 30 Jewish, Moslem andChristian scholars will gather at Auschwitz for a three-dayconference on religion and violence.