Bonds That Bind: Comparisons between Israel and South Africa are usually of the less-than-charitable variety, seeking to draw parallels between apartheid-era policies and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. A July 23 opinion article in the South African paper of record, though, has Johannesburg looking to Jerusalem for guidance on societal reconciliation. To…
The president of the World Jewish Congress criticized Israel’s security fence in a letter to President Bush. The fence, which Israel says is necessary against terrorist infiltration, is “complicated and potentially problematic,” Edgar Bronfman wrote to Bush on Monday. The letter is co-signed by Lawrence Eagleburger, a former secretary of state who chairs the International…
Israel, Austria Renew Ties Israel is resuming full diplomatic ties with Austria and will soon appoint an ambassador to Vienna, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom announced Tuesday at a joint press conference in Jerusalem with his Austrian counterpart, Benita Ferrero-Waldner. Israel downgraded relations with Austria in February 2000 after the far-right Freedom Party, then led by…
WASHINGTON — A meeting between Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and about 50 Jewish community leaders in Washington last week left most of the activists convinced of Abbas’s commitment to peace. The meeting also underscored the growing support for President Bush’s Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative among the Jewish community and the growing influence, in the community,…
The message is crystal-clear. Point one: French society is not more antisemitic than American society. Yes, there is anti-Jewish violence in France, but nearly all of it comes from socially estranged Arab youths, inflamed by the intifada. And in France, unlike America, no Jews have been killed or seriously wounded. Point two: American Jewish groups…
“Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage” focuses on the experiences of women during the Holocaust. Ravensbrück was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps for women, located roughly 50 miles north of Berlin. It opened in May 1939 for an estimated 3,000 people, but 132,000 women and children from 23 nations passed through its gates….
The federal budget deficit for fiscal 2003 will be the largest in American history, according to the White House. The estimate is that the deficit will run to $455 billion for the year. It breaks all records by billions. The highest deficit up until this year was $290 billion in 1992 when George Bush Sr….
The Cracow Klezmer Band, founded in 1997 by accordionist and arranger Jaroslaw Bester, makes its West Coast debut at the Skirball Cultural Center’s Zeitgeist: The Harry and Belle Krupnick International Jewish Arts Festival. The festival, featuring music, theater, dance, lectures and film, brings nearly a dozen European and Russian artists to the United States for…
Two high-profile nomination battles have left the American Jewish Committee in a lonely position: out front on behalf of a Middle East scholar condemned by Democrats and Arab groups and on the sidelines in the fight against one of President Bush’s most controversial judicial nominees. Of the three so-called Jewish defense agencies, a list that…
Lectures and Discussions God Factor: Corey S. Powell, news editor at Discover magazine and author of “God in the Equation: How Einstein Became the Prophet of the New Religious Era,” shows how recent scientific research supports the “God factor,” a cosmological constant in Einstein’s relativity equations. Makor, 35 W. 67th St.; Aug. 12, noon-1 p.m.;…
The historian Américo Castro disliked the term “Siglo del Oro”— the Golden Century — when applied to the period of artistic expression and transatlantic colonization that swept the Spanish Empire from 1492 to the dawn of the 17th century. He wondered: what is golden about those hundred years? Sure, the comedias of Lope de Vega,…
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