WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration turns its attention from war in Iraq to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, differences seem to be deepening between Washington and Jerusalem over the terms of the American-led “road map” to peace. The main dispute between the two allies hinges on what conditions, if any, the Palestinians must…
JERUSALEM — Israel elected two new chief rabbis this week, after a hard-fought race pitting the religious Zionist movement, which founded and long led the state rabbinate, against the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate that has traditionally shunned it. Both races ended in victories for ultra-Orthodox-backed candidates, dealing a humiliating blow to the religious Zionist movement and its…
“Inside of me is a black woman,” declared songwriter Denise Rich, who hosted the April 2 Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s annual spring benefit at her lavish Fifth Avenue penthouse. “It’s why I write the songs I do,” Rich told the 150 guests. “The world needs more than ever… to do something about relationships between all…
A sudden flurry of U.S. warnings to Syria in recent days indicates that Washington has undertaken what Israel and its supporters here have been urging for months: a comprehensive reassessment of Syrian ruler Bashar Assad. In the past two weeks, while U.S. troops were taking control of neighboring Iraq, a string of top American officials…
The search to fill one of the Jewish community’s highest-profile positions appears to be drawing to a close. Richard Joel, the popular president and international director of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, is stepping down April 30 to become president of Yeshiva University and its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Speculation is…
The Inbal Pinto Dance Company of Tel Aviv brings its newest production, “Oyster,” to New York’s Joyce Theater for its American premiere, followed by a stop in Miami before a European tour. Inspired by Tim Burton’s “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy,” a short tale of a mollusk-boy whose parents can’t cope with his brininess,…
BALTIMORE — Helen Salzman inches across the lipstick-red carpet to welcome guests into her cozy, two-story frame cottage. Her delicately appointed dining room is immaculate, her off-white sectional looks spanking new and the kitchen floor is well scrubbed. But the legally blind Salzman does not notice that her plush rug is pulled dangerously loose in…
Fifty years ago this week, James Watson and Francis Crick officially won the race to map out the structure of DNA, a victory that would eventually earn them the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. Now, as the golden anniversary of the discovery is marked, determined feminists and former colleagues are fighting to make sure…
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) Coming Together: The “Annual Gathering of Remembrance” draws together the survivor community and the community at a large for an event in commemoration of the 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust and is sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the Warsaw…
The Democratic presidential hopefuls’ battle for labor support kicked into high gear last week, as eight of the nine contenders — all except Florida Senator Bob Graham — strutted their stuff at the Washington legislative conference of the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades department. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri — a former House minority and…
Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather And the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna By Peter Singer Ecco/HarperCollins, 272 pages, $24.95. * * *| Ever since his “Animal Liberation” hit the best-seller lists in 1975, Peter Singer, the Australian-born philosopher and recently appointed professor of bioethics at Princeton University, has been notorious for his radical views in support…
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