They are not the Jews of bagels and lox brunches with the Sunday New York Times. They do not necessarily get the humor of a Woody Allen movie and are as likely to salivate over a dinner of fried chicken, collard greens, sweet potato pie and iced tea as they are to crave a repast […]

In the summer of 1992 the young members of the St. Lawrence Quartet were trying to make a mark in the competitive string-quartet world. As students at Massachusetts’ famous Tanglewood Festival, they had been assigned to perform a new composition by a composer they had never heard of. An Eastern European-Argentinean-American Jew who mixed Klezmer […]

Independence Day celebrations have begun across the country, beginning with an official ceremony at Mt. Herzl. The theme this year: “Covenant of Life: Bridging Hearts” Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, speaking at the Mt. Herzl ceremony tonight, spoke of his fears of a civil war and a rupture in the nation. “I\u2019m greatly worried about a […]

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1 P.M., at Baruch College- 17 Lexington Ave. & 23 St.- Prime Minister Sharon will be the guest of the Conference of Presidents, Federation and the Israeli Consulate. The Coalition of Americans to Save Gush Katif/Gaza and the N. Shomron Communities is holding a Prayer Vigil in the same location to save […]

Yeshivat Yamit, uprooted by the Begin Government and moved to Gush Katif in 1982, held a commemorative session Monday to recall the uprooting of then – and compare it to that faced today. The speakers included Rabbi David Gavrieli, the current head of the hesder yeshiva (in which students combine Torah study and army service), […]

JERUSALEM – The Jews of Gaza last week increased their efforts via the Internet to build support for their right to live in an area deeded to the children of Israel by the Almighty as an everlasting possession. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to forcibly uproot Gaza’s Jews, as well as the Jewish residents of […]

On Yom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, which begins Tuesday evening, May 10, the entire nation expresses eternal gratitude to its sons and daughters who gave their lives for the country’s independence. Israel Independence Day is celebrated annually, according to the Hebrew calendar, on 5 Iyar, the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. As […]

Plots of flowers grow outside most of the homes we pass as we drive through this small agricultural cooperative in southern Gaza. I point out a particularly lavish one, and the driver, a gruff 55-year-old, stops the car. “What are those white ones?” I ask, motioning through the window. “And those yellow ones with the […]

If the 17th century Puritans in the Colonies had only respected the Old Testament, but had not been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, Dayenu (It would have sufficed); If the Puritans had only been more Talmudic than many American Rabbis, but John Locke who inspired the Founding Fathers and read Hebrew had not tried […]

The feared wave of pre-disengagement administrative (without formal charges) arrests of activists may have begun Sunday with the jailing of an anti-expulsion activist without trial. The activist, who organized the renewal of traditional monthly prayer marches around the gates of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is the first Jew to be jailed without due process […]