Bush Relying on Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
Bush Relying on Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
‘Truth in Labeling?’ I: A glossy new White House publication titled “President George W. Bush: A Friend to the American Jewish Community” is raising the ire of Democrats, who contend that it is a thinly disguised — and dishonest — campaign document put out with public money. The 26-page booklet, issued by the White House’s…
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Questioning Virginity
‘Virgins or Grapes? The Koran Revisited” is the title of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s August 5 hopeful reflections on new scholarly readings of the Koran, which suggest that the famous “virgins” of the Muslim paradise, reputed to be one of the world-to-come’s rewards for faithful Muslims and (in some circles) suicide bombers, actually…
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To War or Not To War
Clausewitz’s famous line, that war is the continuation of politics by other means, probably was meant to be provocative, but it seems to me obviously true. The claim is equally obvious the other way around: Politics is the continuation of war by other means. It is very important, however, that the means are different. Politics…
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Restitution Battle Shifts To Stalled Polish Front
Peter Koppenheim, 73, has been unsuccessfully pushing the Polish government since 1990 to return his family’s property in the center of Wroclaw, most of which was confiscated by the Germans during World War II and then nationalized under Poland’s Communist government. Recently, Rudi Pawelka, another former resident of Wroclaw — or Breslau, as the city…
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Bush Administration Slammed For Inaction on ‘Loose Nukes’
WASHINGTON — With the country on high alert for another Al Qaeda attack, the Bush administration is facing increasing criticism for allegedly not doing enough to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists. The 9/11 Commission and leading nonproliferation experts say that the administration has been too lax in securing nuclear weapons and…
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Reform Rips U.S. Support For Sharon Gaza Plan
WASHINGTON — America’s largest synagogue movement is urging the White House to step up its peace efforts in the Middle East and calling on Congress to refrain from passing one-sided pro-Israel resolutions. The policy recommendations were outlined this week in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell from Rabbi David Saperstein, the Reform movement’s…
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Rabbinical Study Finds ‘Alarming’ Pulpit Gender Gap
Nearly two decades after the ordination of the first Conservative woman rabbi, the movement’s rabbinical union is calling for dramatic steps to close what it describes as an alarming gender gap in the pulpit. The issue was highlighted in a study released last week that found a number of discrepancies, such as female rabbis earning…
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Israeli Mob War Hits the Streets of Central Prague
TEL AVIV — Minutes into his tenure as Israel’s national police chief last Sunday, Commander Moshe Karadi was welcomed with a blast that sounded all the way from the Czech Republic. An unidentified man threw a hand grenade toward a jeep in the center of Prague. Eighteen people were injured in the August 1 blast….
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Evangelicals Seen Forging Alliance With ‘Messianic Jews’
The founder of a fundamentalist Christian men’s movement plans to forge a new alliance with “messianic Jews” that could undermine crucial relations between pro-Israel Evangelical Christians and the Jewish community. Bill McCartney, the former University of Colorado football coach who in 1990 created Promise Keepers, a national Christian men’s ministry, is planning to launch “Road…
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Letter From Masmiya Junction (correction)
Two photographs accompanying the “Letter From Masmiya Junction” in the July 30 issue were credited incorrectly. Rebecca Kowalsky took all the photographs.
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