By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Should we focus on a president who is a convicted rapist, or the capacity of the judiciary to try him in isolation from a hyped media and produce what appears to be a thoroughly argued decision? It took more than an hour for the head judge to read it. The procedure has [...]
By Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I normally don’t watch television at 9 a.m. but I made an exception this Thursday morning, because all TV and radio stations in Israel had live broadcasts of the reading of the verdict in the case of Moshe Katzav, Israel’s immediate past president. The judge found him guilty on all [...]
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff No Visas Needed Southwestern Jewish Press, August 19, 1955, Page 1 The Consulate General of Israel is pleased to announce that as of August 1, American citizens will no longer be required to apply for tourist visas at an Israel Consulate. The visas will be granted at the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense, and State and Foreign Operations, sent the following letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy requesting that France reconsider its reported plans to sell anti-tank missiles to the Lebanese Armed Forces. The full text of the letter: President Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
By Hannah Miller BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Press Release)–Sometimes the phone rings and it is a neighbor asking for a favor. Sometimes the phone rings and it is a request for charity. Sometimes the phone rings and it is a notification that you are the only one in the world that can save the life of another [...]
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel – The Egyptian government so arranged the parliamentary elections that the share of seats held by the opposition declined from 20 percent for Muslim Brotherhood supporters alone to only 3 percent for all of the half-dozen opposition parties put together. In other words, the regime didn’t just steal the election–which it [...]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Many believers affirm that precipitation comes from God. Throughout history, the absence of rain in its due season has constituted a formidable threat to humans and animals alike. A drought in the ancient, largely agrarian, world meant death by starvation, in the face of which people turned to the skies — [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is more evidence that Israel is not a perfect society. The headline on page 2 of Ha’aretz reports that 44 percent of the country’s Jews agree with the rabbis who urge them not to rent or sell apartments to Arabs. According to details in the story, however, 48 percent [...]
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I never know whether to laugh or cry when I read those perennial complaints that things are getting worse, the country (no matter which) is going to the dogs and ‘fings ain’t wot they used to be.’ The trouble is that change happens, it is inevitable, we are [...]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Though Israel hasn’t (yet?) become the Jewish spiritual centre that some early Zionists envisaged, there’re currently many important efforts to build bridges between Jewish tradition and contemporary Jewry that might renew Judaism and reinvigorate the Jewish people everywhere. Some of it, alas, is ugly and dangerous, e.g., using biblical myths about the [...]
