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Shift in Israeli Attitudes Towards Peace

Tuesday, April 10th, 2001

Dr. Mina Tzemach of the Dahaf Institute conducted a special public opinion poll on the political positions of the Israeli public regarding the Palestinians and the Al-Aqsa Intifada. The poll showed an acute shift in the way the Israeli public in general, and the Israeli left in particular, view the Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian peace […]


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WWII Jewish Rescure Operation Hero Needs Encouragement

Tuesday, April 10th, 2001

He worked day and night to save millions of Jews. His activities forced Roosevelt to create the War Refugee Board that saved 100,000 Jews in Europe. Here’s a Mitzva you can do in the spirit of Peseach that will make an old man very happy. Every once in a while I visit an elderly man […]


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WWII Jewish Rescure Operation Hero Needs Encouragement

Tuesday, April 10th, 2001

He worked day and night to save millions of Jews. His activities forced Roosevelt to create the War Refugee Board that saved 100,000 Jews in Europe. Here’s a Mitzva you can do in the spirit of Peseach that will make an old man very happy. Every once in a while I visit an elderly man […]


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Should Daniel Kurtzer Be America’s Next Ambassador to Israel?

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

There are hopeful signs regarding the Bush administration’s policy toward Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. Unlike his predecessor, President Bush refrained from interfering in the Israeli election and has said that he will not impose deadlines on the Arab-Israeli negotiating process. He has called upon Yasir Arafat to publicly condemn anti-Jewish terrorism, in Arabic, to […]


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History of the Aleph-bet: Now in Stamps!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

A new series of stamps dedicated to the Aleph-Bet (the Hebrew alphabet) were issued in February. As Prof. Yosef Naveh of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem explained, “In the second millenium BCE, the Babylonians and Assyrians wrote in Cuneiform, and the Egyptians in hieroglyphs. These forms of writing included hundreds of signs, and only scribes […]


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The Blood Libel Again in Egypts Government Press

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

The criticism of the Egyptian government press, following racist remarks against US Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as the continuous anti-Semitism has been only partially heeded. While the criticism of Secretary Powell has been toned down, (1) anti-Semitic slander remains a frequent feature in the writings of Egyptian columnists. Recently, the issue of […]


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Our New, Favorite Phrase: Unbalanced and Unworkable, and Hence Unwise.

Monday, April 2nd, 2001

The Bush Administration has given voice to several serious problems of American national security interest that the previous administration left unmentioned. Sham negotiations with North Korea over its missile program. Russian arms proliferation and sales of nuclear technology to Iran. Renewed and expanded fighting in the Balkans. Chinese missile proliferation in range not only of […]


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The Avraham Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Cairo

Monday, April 2nd, 2001

Cairo, with its close to 18 million inhabitants, has a total Jewish population of 52 families. Most of them live in and around the city of Old Cairo, a neighborhood surrounded by 29 mosques and 20 churches. The Great Synagogue, where occasional religious services are held, is situated in this area. The second Jewish home […]


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Conference on “The Balance of National Strength and Security in Israel”

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

About three months ago the Interdisciplinary Academic Center in Herzliya held a conference on “The Balance of National Strength and Security in Israel.” The conference’s organizers and 300 participants were the leading figures of Israel’s political, defense, and academic establishments. Last week, the conference’s organizers published a document titled, “The Balance of National Strength and […]


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Hearings begin on Jews abducted in Argentina

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

An Israeli committee has begun hearing testimony about some 2,000 Jews abducted during Argentina’s infamous military dictatorship of the 1970s. This year is the 25th anniversary of the coup that led to a seven-year-long dictatorship led by a military junta. During this period, approxiraately 30,000 Argentines were abducted, imprisoned or murdered. Earlier this month, the […]


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