WASHINGTON — As part of a recently launched campaign to neutralize Jewish and evangelical opposition to the Gaza disengagement plan, Israeli diplomats are reaching out to liberal American organizations that have historically aligned themselves with the peace camp in Israel. Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Danny Ayalon, is slated to take part in a March 14…
TEL AVIV — With just three weeks left before his statutory deadline to pass a state budget — or face new elections — Prime Minister Sharon appears to have emerged this week onto a suddenly transformed landscape, turning what had looked like a life-and-death struggle into something more like a garage sale. Theoretically, Sharon is…
A conference at Columbia University designed to highlight alleged intimidation by Arab professors took an unexpected turn March 6 when three pro-Israel students took to the stage to criticize anti-Palestinian and anti-Islamic statements by previous speakers. “I have to take serious issue with many of the statements made here today,” said Ariel Beery, one of…
Esther Silvers is boldly going where no Jew has gone before —under the chupah with a Klingon. The main character in the “Star Trek” e-book series, “Starfleet Corps of Engineers,” Esther is marrying out (of the species) — to Khor, the son of the Klingon ambassador to Earth. The latest installment of the series, “Creative…
Judging from their rush last week to condemn Senator Robert Byrd, Republicans are either recovering from a collective case of laryngitis or suffering from mass amnesia. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, recently infuriated Republicans by comparing their plan to ban the filibustering of judicial nominees to the tactics used by Adolf Hitler to consolidate…
American Apathy?: Is the White House snubbing Israel? It kind of looks that way. In what is expected to be the largest gathering of world leaders in Israel (with the exception of the 1995 funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin) in the Jewish state’s history, leaders of 30 nations are descending next week on Jerusalem…
Israeli Chocolate-Coated Orange Peels From About.com You’ll want to use low spray or organic oranges for this recipe, if you can find them, since the peel of the orange absorbs the toxins sprayed on the fruit. If low or no spray oranges are used, you may be able to skip or shorten the first soaking…
WASHINGTON — Congress is being urged by a top Jewish public-policy organization to approve the Bush administration’s request for $350 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, even as prominent Jewish lawmakers fight the proposal. A resolution calling on Congress to “to fund” the aid proposal “in its entirety” was passed unanimously Monday at…
A vocal critic of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan has been tapped by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to spearhead a new program aimed at selling Jerusalem’s side of the story to foreign journalists in the region. The Philadelphia federation gave $100,000 to launch the new Jerusalem office of The Israel Project — an organization…
The attachment of American Jews to Israel has weakened measurably in the last two years, a recent survey demonstrates, continuing a long-term trend visible during the past decade and a half. The weakening is apparent in almost every measure of Jewish connection to Israel except for interest in travel to Israel, which showed a slight…
A perennially debated issue in linguistics in recent decades has been the question of just what aspects of language are “hard-wired” into our brains and what aspects are contingent on chance developments affecting specific languages or groups of languages. Take the basic word order of the simplest sentences that we utter. If you wish to…
