PARIS — Yes, there is a worrisome development of antisemitism in part of the French Muslim community, which is 5 million strong. Yes, the intellectually influential far-left tolerates such attitudes out of guilt for France’s colonial past and because of its deep antipathy for Ariel Sharon’s policies. And no, these admissions do not come from…
JERUSALEM — In any other week, the death of Rachel Corrie would have touched off furious international shock waves. A blond, attractive 23-year-old American college student, Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer last Sunday while she stood with a group of fellow peace activists trying to stop a home demolition in…
This Sunday, documentary film directors Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender will don their tuxedos, smile for the paparazzi and sit anxiously in the Kodak Theatre, waiting to see if their names will follow the words, “And the Oscar goes to…” In the 2002 Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature category, Clarke and Sender face tough competition….
When WWRL-AM (1600), one of the nation’s oldest black-owned and -operated radio stations, hosted an event last week at the Times Square Planet Hollywood to celebrate its new line-up, the buffet was laden with treyf Buffalo wings and hamburgers. But there was another table, too, stacked with glatt kosher meals. This was no catering snafu;…
PARIS — Senior Vatican and French Jewish communal officials attended the second “European Encounters Between Catholics and Jews” last week in Paris, a two-day event that climaxed on the evening of March 11 with a reception for more than 1,000 people in the honor ballroom of City Hall. Organized by the European Jewish Congress and…
Lectures and Discussions In an Era of Terror: Warren Bass, a senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy and Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses “U.S.-Israel Relations in an Era of Terror and Turbulence.” Bass is the author of the forthcoming “Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the…
Tisch Eyed for Conference James Tisch has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to be the next chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, according to a report in the New York Sun Wednesday. The Sun reports that Tisch, the CEO of Loews Corp and chairman of the board of the…
Jews are not big drinkers. Maybe it’s because kishke and cocktails don’t mix. Maybe it’s because we’re too neurotic to kick back with a six-pack. Or maybe it’s because we know our mothers would kill us if we made a drunken spectacle of ourselves. Whatever the reason, many Jews will choose milk over a martini…
OAKLAND — A San Francisco Jewish group is moving forward with plans to honor the city’s police chief, who this week was cleared after being indicted in one of the highest-profile police scandals in recent American history. The Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue and Renewal, a human rights group working on behalf of Jews…
Over the years, Purim has had its ups and downs. Sometimes marked with exuberance and at other times barely noted, its lot in America has not been a happy one. In New York of the 1860s, for instance, fancy dress balls and masques were all the rage. “Astonishing the lovers of fun and good society,”…
WASHINGTON — As a wide coalition of civil rights organizations, unions, faith-based groups and medical professionals launched “Cover the Uninsured Week” Monday, a new study published this week shows an alarming increase in the number of Americans without health insurance. The report, prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is the chief funder of…
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