After three years of intense haggling, threats and pressures from all sides, the United Nations Security Council last Wednesday approved the creation of an International Tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister...
The recent conference on Iraq, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, and attended by more than 50 countries representing half of the world's population, seems at first glance to underscore the "great interest so many countries have displayed" over the future of that...
Hayyim Hirschensohn, an Orthodox rabbi living in New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century, espoused a doctrine that Jews, if their intent was clear and honorable, could experiment with their religious observances. "For the truth," he wrote in 1921,...
This week Memorial Day was observed nationally, and during this period once again the Jewish War Veterans of the USA held its annual solemn tribute to the men and women within our local Jewish community who have served their nation in the U.S. armed forces,...
As Shavuot approaches, Congress again seems poised to take up the question of immigration reform. Frustrated by last year's stalemate on the subject, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier this month announced his intention to bypass the normal Judiciary...
An anniversary of tremendous historic significance to the Jewish people occurred last week on the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, 5767 on the Jewish Calendar, which took place on Wednesday, May 16, 2007: the 40th anniversary of Yom Yerushalayim,...
For many younger American Jews, American Jewry looks like this: "Synagogues are for people with children. And they're generally uninspiring." "JCCs are for people with children." "Federations only want my money. Then they want me to be quiet." "I can't...
Falwell earned praise, disdain
• Published May 22, 2007
No doubt, the recent death of the Rev. Jerry Falwell is playing to ambivalent reviews in the world Jewish community. As the founder of the religious Christian conservative political group, the Moral Majority, his influence was astounding, as he encouraged...
The long-anticipated resignation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the election of Nicholas Sarkozy as the new president of France, along with the recent death of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dramatically underscores the ending of one...
Why is the Jewish Council for Public Affairs making a nuclear-armed Iran its principal concern in the year to come? Keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a goal that unites people of diverse races, ethnic backgrounds, nationalities and religions....
S. Erwin Jacobs ChesterfieldM
• Published May 8, 2007
Librescu saved lives It is both ironic and profoundly tragic that Holocaust survivor, Professor Liviu Librescu, would lose his life in the Virginia Tech massacres on April 16, which is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This date in the Jewish calendar...
Troubles seem to mount by the minute for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Less than a year after he succeeded his larger-than-life predecessor Ariel Sharon when the latter was felled by a stroke, Olmert, who had attempted to continue the centrist values...
