Palestinian activist Mohammed Khatib, who has been leading weekly protests against the path of Israel’s security barrier through his home village, Bil’in, was arrested last night in a pre-dawn raid. The arrest — the latest in a series of late night army raids in Bil’in in which protest activists were arrested — was reported by…
Nowadays, I am continually amazed by how much stuff I take with me when leaving the house. In the past, I used to take my purse and go. Now, especially if I go somewhere with the kids (even for a few hours), I have to pack a bag with a change of clothes for each…
Two-and-a-half years after a Supreme Court order, Israel’s army is preparing to adjust the route of the long security barrier it has constructed on the West Bank at a key flashpoint where a fence cuts off Palestinian villagers from their own land. For five years, the villagers of Bil’in have staged weekly protests against the…
Even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate — and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in the fight for immigration reform, but the weakening of the Democrats’ grip on…
An Israeli embassy effort to address the concerns of non-Orthodox Jewish leaders regarding the treatment of some worshippers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall has instead inflamed many of them. The embassy’s response — to a letter-writing campaign by Conservative Jews and others protesting the treatment of female worshippers who don’t abide by the strictures of the…
The crimes that brought down the Agriprocessors kosher meat company and could put its owner, Sholom Rubashkin, in jail for life, still reverberate. An echo was heard in the Rabbinical Council of America’s January 21 announcement establishing a set of ethical guidelines for how agencies supervising kosher food production should behave beyond ensuring that the…
Kosher food makes a Jewish home. That has been the thinking for the past 29 years at Martins Run, a Jewish retirement community outside Philadelphia where every meal served in the white-tablecloth dining rooms has been certified kosher. But the thinking about what makes a Jewish home is changing. During the past year, Martins Run,…
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY HONORS ISRAELI-BORN PHILANTHROPIST TOVA LEIDESDORF AND REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MICHAEL STEELE Setting the tone for the January 18 Silver Anniversary Gala of the Congress of Racial Equality, Rabbi Shea Hecht, chairman of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education, stated, “[This evening] is a partial fulfillment of Dr. Martin…
Inside the kosher bakery, a corner storefront no larger than a college dorm room, a jumble of customers jostles for service. It’s Friday afternoon, so the shop’s front window is stacked with loaves of fresh challah. Two display cases hold an array of tantalizing sweets: molten-centered macaroons, cocoa biscotti, and wedges of sweet cheese and…
The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah By Joel Chasnoff Free Press, 288 pages, $25.00. It’s a shame Hanukkah has come and gone — the perfect gift is only just making its way into bookstores. Joel Chasnoff’s memoir, “The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah,”…
Just a week after the Forward published a feature about a book by two West Bank settler rabbis discussing scenarios for Jews to kill non-Jewish babies and innocents with the supposed blessing of Jewish law, one of the rabbi-authors has been arrested in connection with the recent torching of a nearby mosque. Police took in…
געוויסע עקספּערטן האַלטן, אַז מע דאַרף באַטראַכטן ל״ג־בעומר ווי אַ פֿרילינגדיקן מײַ־פֿעסטיוואַל
