However damning Judge Eliyahu Winograd's report may be regarding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's conduct of the second war in Lebanon, it would be far more damning and destructive for Israel if the political leaders seeking to replace Mr. Olmert lose sight...
We're at it again, defining the lines of who's in and who's out as the debate on Jewish continuity in America rages on. Steven M. Cohen's latest sociological study on intermarriage, titled "The Tale of Two Jewries," argues that intermarriage is the single...
Alexander Sukhodolsky University City
• Published May 1, 2007
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By a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court, in a ruling described by dissenting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as "alarming," upheld for the first time a restriction on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, by approving a ban on what is called "partial...
The New Jewish Theatre has reason to kvell over the recent Kevin Kline Award to Donna Weinsting who played the mother in the three generation play From Door to Door. Donna, who was honored for her "Outstanding Performance by an Actress", was in competition...
Surprised, pleased and flattered as we at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), were to learn that our Israel operation had won the esteemed Israel Prize this year, we took time to thank our well-wishers, then sat down to ask ourselves:...
The recent flap over former radio-TV "shock-jock" Don Imus over racist and sexist words he used to defame the Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team is only the most recent example of the maxim that words can cause real harm and hurt, especially when...
The ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan has already claimed the lives of at least 200,000 innocent men, women and children, and perhaps as many as 400,000, and uprooted 2.5 million people from their homes. Efforts by the international community...
The U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the usual cries of protest from abortion rights advocates and, also as usual, they include an assortment of Jewish groups and The New York Times.That latter...
The modern State of Israel will observe the 59th anniversary of its founding on April 23, corresponding to the Jewish date of the 5th of Iyar, officially known as Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day. On the Gregorian Calendar in common use, May 14...
Children of northern Israel
• Published April 17, 2007
For most of the American Jewish community, last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel has faded into their memories. For kids in northern Israel, however, the trauma still remains. My daughter just received a letter from her 11-year-old cousin, Maya,...
After a long and sometimes challenging process, Sam Fox, St. Louis business leader and major philanthropic supporter of good causes in both the Jewish and general communities, has been named Ambassador to Belgium. Fox is believed to be the first St. Louisan...
