JERUSALEM — The issue of Jewish settlements in the territories is the main obstacle awaiting Prime Minister Sharon when he meets with President Bush at the White House next Tuesday, according to informed sources here. Israel views Sharon’s White House visit, his first since October, as “crucial” to continued progress toward peace with the Palestinians,…
The American victory in Iraq is offering a unique opportunity to promote and spread democracy in the Middle East, according to the leading Egyptian human-rights activist. “Objectionable as the war may have been, the area has one fewer dictator. So there is a true opportunity to establish new institutions, new practices and new values, including…
Lag B’Omer A Day for Joy, in Ladino: For the 33rd day of the omer, the 50-day period between the second day of Passover and Shavuot, the Ladino Players present an evening of Sephardic song and dance from Sevilla to Salonika — and folk tales, including several about that dear wise fool Djoha, the trickster….
WASHINGTON — With congressional battles heating up over President Bush’s judicial nominees, two major Jewish organizations known for their liberal views have weighed in against the latest controversial Bush candidate, Alabama state Attorney General Bill Pryor. Pryor was nominated last month to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The two groups, the National…
Two Iranian men accused of attacking two men whom they believed were Jewish outside a West Hollywood nightclub pleaded no contest to a hate-crime charge, according to the Associated Press. Daoud Mohammad Majid, 19, and Mohammed Hassan Aref, 22, would have faced as many as eight years in state prison had they been convicted of…
These days ketubot, or marriage contracts, are created with as much originality and variation as the wedding ceremony itself — from traditional to not and back again. Integrating artwork, calligraphy and even pictures of the bride and groom beneath the chupah, the marriage documents in “Love as Activism: Beyond Egalitarianism in the Contemporary Ketubah” present…
Illinois State Comptroller Dan Hynes is considered the early favorite for the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed his state’s Republican senator, Peter Fitzgerald, who decided last month not to run for re-election. The son of another popular politician, Hynes, 34, can count on the support of Cook County’s Democratic machine and his own…
Concert pianist Stacey Rose, whose career has brought her throughout the U. S. and to more than eight countries around the world, performed a solo recital at the Center Church on the Green in New Haven, Conn., on April 5. The concert was a tribute to her former nanny, Mrs. Lula Maie Rose, with proceeds…
Kathi Diamant didn’t really like Franz Kafka when she first read him. Even today — more than 30 years after she first read “The Metamorphosis” — she doesn’t express the kind of veneration one would expect from the director of the Kafka Project at San Diego State University. “I prefer Kafka’s personal writing to his…
At the release party last month for the latest Kabbalah Centre tome, “The 72 Names of God: Technology for the Soul,” the talk was not of Jewish mystical practices, but of Madonna. Madonna, Madonna! The Material Mom lent her unparalleled star power to the affair, during which the media hordes waited hours behind velvet ropes…
Due to an editing error, Carmel Thompson was misidentified as a Holocaust survivor in a May 2 article, “Archive Offers Campus New Era.”
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