Norman Salsitz, Holocaust survivor and co-author, with his wife, of “Against All Odds: A Tale of Two Survivors,” died of pneumonia October 11 in Springfield, N.J. He was 86. Born Naftali Saleschutz in Kolbuszowa, Poland, Salsitz defied death many times — first as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis in the Polish forest and then…
An explosive new report claims that the federal investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, has been expanded to include suspicion of meddling in affairs of the House Intelligence Committee. The report comes immediately on the heels of two new surveys that shine a critical light on Israel and on…
When the news broke last week that former President Jimmy Carter is set to release a book highly critical of Israel, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi quickly issued a statement denouncing the views of her fellow Democrat. “With all due respect,” Pelosi declared in a written statement, “he does not speak for the Democratic Party…
On a recent Sunday afternoon on New York City’s Upper East Side, several hundred Big Apple residents gathered to hear from the Israeli government why they should consider immigrating to the Jewish homeland. But the targets of the pitch for life in Israel were not the usual crop of American Jews with Zionist leanings. They…
The Israeli minister in charge of immigration is predicting that the recent proposal to drastically cut the number of Ethiopian Jews allowed into Israel will be reversed when it comes before parliament. “I told the prime minister that before we pass this, we will put it before the parliament to be reconsidered,” Israel’s Minister of…
The newest nightspot in Budapest opened its doors Sunday night on Kiraly Street in the heart of what used to be this city’s Jewish ghetto. The three-level bar hosted a Hebrew rapper in the theater space downstairs, paintings by a young Hungarian Jew dotted the second-floor gallery, and on the front door was a mezuza…
After heading Israel’s Navy and internal security services and spending his early retirement campaigning for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ami Ayalon believes that his unique combination of security credentials and peace advocacy can propel him to the helm of the Labor Party — and from there, with luck, to the prime minister’s…
Israel’s ongoing military operations in Gaza passed the four-month mark this week, a milestone that went almost unnoticed by the general public despite the growing intensity of the fighting and the signs of an imminent escalation. Recent days have seen some of the most intense action since the incursion began June 25, including a raid…
Along with sweet accents and sweeter food, this city is known for its graceful sweep of Spanish moss dangling from thick, gnarled trees old enough to have heard every story there is to tell. This, however, may be a new one: An Israeli businesswoman living in nearby Bluffton, S.C., dreams of rebuilding the Third Temple…
As Senator Rick Santorum held court at an October 19 campaign event, he evoked the menace of Islamic fundamentalists — and laid down a guilt trip — to rally dozens of Jewish supporters. Trailing in a race that could hand back control of the Senate to the Democrats, Santorum warned the 50 supporters in attendance…
A Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi from Brooklyn sent out a mass e-mail Monday asking recipients to show support for embattled Senator Rick Santorum. “At this moment, we need to show our support for Rick Santorum,” Rabbi Shea Hecht wrote in the missive. The rabbi asked recipients to urge the senator’s rival, Democrat Bob Casey Jr., to return…
