Iran won’t have the capacity to produce highly enriched uranium until 2013 and has yet to decide to produce a bomb, according to U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears in answers produced in April by the director for U.S. national intelligence, Dennis Blair, in response to congressional inquiries; the document was declassified this week through the…
FRENCH “FREE MARKET” CHAMPION ECONOMIST GUY SORMAN AND U.S. JOURNALIST ROGER COHEN DEBATE AT FRENCH RECEPTION Had there been a soundtrack to the July 1 dialogue between Guy Sorman, author of “Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis” (Encounter Books), and New York Times and International Herald-Tribune…
Israel’s formal response to the onslaught of criticism it has absorbed over its winter military campaign in Gaza finally arrived late last month. And though the report is exhaustive, its reply to the hail of human rights and war crimes charges has essentially boiled down to one crucial point: Intent. The 160-page Israeli analysis dismisses…
It began, as so much does these days, with Google. Gita Segal Rotenberg, 71, and living in Toronto, wondered what had become of her old friends from Camp Ramah in the Poconos, the girls she’d spent summers with in the early 1950s. So she entered a name into the search engine. Several months later, her…
A report stating that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had denounced two top aides to President Obama as “self-hating Jews” brought back less-than-fond memories to veteran Jewish officials from previous administrations — even as Netanyahu belatedly denied the latest alleged instance of this long tradition of targeting Jewish administration officials. For Martin Indyk, former ambassador…
Expectations are running high for Jerry Silverman, incoming president and CEO of United Jewish Communities, and for the troubled organization’s incoming board chair, Kathy Manning. Conceived as the umbrella group, national advocate and central address of American Jewry’s sprawling system of local charity funding bodies known as federations, UJC has cost those strapped community-based groups…
Attempts to fix the nation’s organ donation system have attracted new interest following the recent arrest of a Brooklyn rabbi accused of illegally buying kidneys from live donors and selling them at a huge profit to desperate patients awaiting transplant surgery. While human organs trafficking of the sort allegedly conducted by Rabbi Levy Izhak Rosenbaum…
The 1,000 people who came from all over to the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy are bubbes and mommies, fathers and sons, and professionals and retirees, and besides being Jewish, they all have one thing in common. They are detectives. Some, like Ann Francesconi, of Tavares, Fla., have been on the trail of their extended…
In this picture, Dina Wein Reis looks every bit the modern frum woman — modest but modern, and very cute with her hair tucked up into that newsboy cap. But she is far from a woman of valor, the traditional view of the ideal Jewish woman as one who is capable, industrious and righteous. Wein…
Think about your favorite camp memory. Maybe it was that time you learned how to weave plastic strings into a lanyard keychain! But I doubt it. More likely, it was that spontaneous skinny dip by moonlight. Or when you raided the cabin of your secret crush. Or, if you were luckier than I, that first…
I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band — Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock” The destination that Joni Mitchell sings about in this Woodstock anthem was owned by a nice Jewish farmer, Max Yasgur, who in August 1969 famously allowed half a million people to camp out on…
