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New Labor Chief Upends Israeli Politics
TEL AVIV — Surging out of the gate after his upset win in last week’s Labor Party leadership primary, union firebrand Amir Peretz scored a rapid series of tactical victories this week and appeared poised to remake Israeli politics into a competitive sport for the first time in years. Peretz, 53, a political maverick who…
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A Custodian Of Memories
One day, to enhance his act, a peg-legged tightrope walker balanced a small iron cooking stove on his back. During one ill-fated performance, the high wire snapped and the performer fell to the ground, mortally wounded. A priest administered the last rites, then leaned down to catch the man’s dying words. The acrobat gasped, “But…
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Heed the Lesson of Nuremberg: Let No Nation Be Above the Law
“We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow,” Chief Justice Robert Jackson warned at the opening session of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, on November 20, 1945. “To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to…
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Exploring Pre-teen Angst — From the Shopping Mall to the Bimah
When you’re 12 going on 13, everything feels just so serious. Stacy Friedman, the protagonist of Fiona Rosenbloom’s young adult novel “You Are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” (Hyperion), has an accessory bag full of problems standing in the way of having an absolutely perfect life. Her parents’ marriage is on the fritz,…
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Argentine Authorities Said To Seek Arrest of Iranians in 1994 Bombing
Argentine officials are said to be preparing new arrest warrants against senior Iranian leaders after prosecutors announced that they had linked them to the perpetrator of the 1994 suicide bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aries to Hezbollah. Argentine prosecutors announced last week that they had identified the alleged suicide driver of the…
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Remembering Yitzhak Rabin
“Of all the leaders I dealt with, I most admired Rabin,” keynote speaker Dennis Ross recalled at the October 30 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center dinner. Held at the Pierre, the event occurred just days before the 10th anniversary of the leader’s assassination. “He was the embodiment of Israel,” mused Ross, who played a…
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Fed Nominee Bernanke Was Molded By Upbringing in Small-town South
When Ben Shalom Bernanke, President Bush’s nominee to be the new Federal Reserve chairman, was a teenager in the small town of Dillon, S.C., in the 1960s, he helped lead services and roll the Torah scrolls in the town’s synagogue. Judaism remains a part of Bernanke’s life, but the Princeton University economist does not wear…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 18, 2005
On the 30th anniversary of the Yiddish poet Leyb Oblitsky’s death, the columns of the Forverts dedicated to Pearls of Yiddish Poetry featured the story of a deadly date, May 10. It was the day dubbed the auto-da-fé — which in Portuguese means “Act of Faith.” The specific act of faith to which the phrase…
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New Orleans Jews Face a Quandary: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
NEW ORLEANS — Harry Lazarus, the owner of a construction company founded by his father-in-law nearly a half century ago, has lived in New Orleans his entire life. He has no plans to leave anytime soon. His older brother, Edward, an obstetrician, delivered babies during Hurricane Katrina without the aid of electricity or epidurals, then…
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Peres’s Curse: Another Election Is Lost
Let’s put it this way: Even if he were running for head of the tenants committee of an isolated lighthouse in which he was the only tenant, Shimon Peres would lose by 0.6%. And after a long sleepless night of uncertainty, at the end of which he would show up with his face crestfallen —…
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Coordinated Intelligence Efforts Led to Terror Suspect
Information pieced together by the Forward from documents and interviews provide a rare glimpse into the hunt for a dead terrorist suspect, featuring cooperation and tensions between intelligence services and investigators as well as a possible cover-up operation by Hezbollah. In late 1999, Argentina launched secret operation “Gaviota,” with the aim of recruiting informants within…
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