Despite threats of reprisals from Ankara and disapproval from the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress are slated to mark up the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res 106) in the House Foreign Affarirs Committee today. The bill is expected to be approved by the committee and has enought votes to pass should it reach the House floor….
Sherman Oaks, Calif. — In a neighborhood peppered with restaurants with names like Café Eilat and a raft of kosher supermarkets to choose from, the sole Jewish community center here may soon be forced to shutter its doors. A protracted battle pitting the members of the Valley Cities JCC in Sherman Oaks, Calif., one of…
The southern Spanish city of Córdoba represented the height of Western civilization from the 11th century to the 13th, when the ruling Arabs and great Jewish scholars coexisted. But the modern urban center has not folded into the past. In the Mezquita (“mosque” in Spanish), Moroccan tourists are as likely to be seen as American…
Is Erez Safar, 28, the hardest-working man in the Jewish music industry? He’s produced music as DJ Handler, released such acts as Y-Love and Juez on his label, Modular Moods, and ran the Sephardic Music Festival. And now he’s also the webmaster of Shemspeed, which he bills as the largest Jewish music site on the…
Following a tumultuous year, in which Hamas seized control of Gaza, we are now seeing a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. With an American-backed international conference scheduled for November, Palestinians and Israelis have stepped up their own bilateral diplomacy. Some say the time is ripe for a dramatic…
THE FORWARD INDUCTED INTO THE 100 YEAR ASSOCIATION A L’chaim! — To life! to the Jewish Daily Forward (established in 1897), which was admitted to membership in The 100 Year Association of New York at its September 19 dinner. Also admitted this year were St. Patrick’s Cathedral (established in 1807) and the 92nd Street Y…
Washington – While the Iranian president was busy stealing the limelight at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, Israel’s foreign minister was quietly carrying out a new strategy of normalizing relations with Muslim countries in a series of backroom meetings. During her weeklong stay in the United States, Tzipi Livni made her case at the…
Nablus, West Bank – He has been charged with no less a mission than ridding the local branch of the Palestinian religious authority of Hamas’s influence. But when a reporter arrives in his office, Hassan Hilali goes stiff. “I am only a simple man,” he apologizes, while dialing a superior to get authorization to talk….
Los Angeles – A recent incident at an Orthodox day school in one of this city’s epicenters of Jewish life is inflaming tensions in a neighborhood long plagued by ethnic controversy. On the holiest night of the Jewish calendar year, two inspectors for the City of Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety arrived unannounced…
A famed Holocaust denier is revising his revisionist thinking — and the move is opening up a rift among his fellow travelers. David Irving, who was released from prison last December in Austria after being convicted of Holocaust denial, recently announced that he is rethinking his position on the fate of European Jews during World…
After hitting Europe earlier this month, “The Israel Lobby” is preparing for a frontal assault on the Muslim world. The controversial book by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who accuse the pro-Israel lobby of hijacking American policy, hit bookstores in Europe in September and soon will be published across the Arab world and…
„קינדער פֿון אַ ייִדישער משפּחה קלײַבן אױס פֿאַרשײדענע דרכים אָבער ווערן פֿאָרט אומגעבראַכט אינעם חורבן.“
