Middle East Mayor: Rep. Anthony Weiner, running in a large Democratic field for the party’s nod to challenge New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, has been focusing on issues of interest to Jewish voters as the key to assembling an outer-borough ethnic coalition. “The Democratic Party is the anti-terrorism party,” the Queens lawmaker said…
Putin To Visit Israel Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a historic visit to Israel in late April. The trip will be the first to Israel by a Russian leader, officials said Wednesday. As well as meeting with officials in Jerusalem, Putin plans to visit the Palestinian Authority. The move is being seen as a…
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Kofi Annan’s wide-ranging United Nations reform proposals won a cautious welcome this week from Israel and its supporters, who praised his calls to define terrorism more stringently and to overhaul the U.N. Human Rights Commission. But they warned that the proposals’ implementation still faces hurdles and that the anti-Israel slant…
BERLIN — No one would have guessed three decades ago that the radical tough who led left-wing gang attacks on police in Frankfurt would eventually become Germany’s foreign minister and a peacemaker respected around the world. Joschka Fischer has been able to reinvent himself, though. Along the way he has become one of Europe’s leading…
What is the difference between a possibility that is “tangible” and a possibility that is “reasonable”? If Israel’s attorney general, Emmanuel Mazuz has his way, it might be the difference between going and not going to jail for incitement to murder Prime Minister Sharon. In the wake of the increasingly strident agitation against Sharon that…
There’s more to Jamaica than soft sand and reggae, more to Mexico than ancient pyramids and enchiladas, more to Argentina than great steaks and the tango. Jewish history in the Americas dates back more than 500 years, and because of this, sites of interest for modern-day Jewish travelers dot the region from Sinagoga Kahal Zur…
With each new wave of sordid and shocking allegations against Michael Jackson, the superstar’s child molestation trial seems increasingly like the final chapter in the most improbable and unprecedented celebrity tale of modern times. But the King of Pop actually has a literary antecedent — one who can be found in the Bible, of all…
So I had an evening out, for the first time since Maxine’s birth. I attended “So Laugh a Little,” an evening of Jewish women’s comedy benefiting the Jewish Women’s Archive (jwa.org), an organization that supports research, fosters chick-power activism, and creates curricula about American Jewish women in history and today. My husband, feminist that he…
FORWARD FORUM Since the early 1990s, NATO and the European Union have expanded across the eastern half of the continent, nearly doubling their size and membership to help consolidate democracy and security across the new Europe. Today, they have stretched their borders to the northern edge of the wider Middle East and are assuming new…
Matthew Goodman, the Forward’s longtime Food Maven, this month released his first book: ‘Jewish Food: The World at Table’ (HarperCollins). The following is an excerpt from its introduction. There’s an old joke that’s told about a Martian who accidentally crashes his spaceship on the streets of New York. In search of a new set of…
The largest union of Orthodox rabbis has expelled one of its members from the organization following an investigation into several women’s allegations of sexual harassment. In a March 18 statement, the Rabbinical Council of America said that Rabbi Mordecai Tendler “has refused to cooperate with the [organization] in its investigation, and has refused to appear…
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
