By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Currently the most pressing religious war in these surroundings is not between Jews and Muslims or Christians, but among the Jews. As is typical of this recurring conflict, the weapons involved are not explosives. This round of conflict has not escalated beyond nastiness and disinformation. But those are sufficient to heat [...]
JERUSALEM (Press Release) –The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, under the leadership of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, its founder and president, announced a donation of $1.1 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel to support the network of Jewish day schools in the former Soviet Union. This comes in addition to the $400,000 in support to [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–You want to look at a conundrum? (a problem without a solution) Immigration reform is a good example. A NYT article describes efforts at producing some kind of amnesty along with “tougher enforcement.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/us/politics/01immig.html?hp Can any country control its borders, and also preserve its morality? Tougher enforcement will mean random deportations while [...]
CHISINAU, Moldova (WJC)–The Russian Orthodox Church in the former Soviet republic of Moldova has indirectly blamed the Jewish community for the recent anti-Semitic march by Christian fundamentalists in the capital Chisinau in which a public menorah was dismantled. A church statement said: “We believe that this unpleasant incident could have been avoided if the menorah [...]
