Modigliani: Beyond the Myth May 21, 2004 – September 19, 2004 Solely sponsored by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation. When Modigliani died in Paris in 1920, at the age of thirty-five, he became the standard-bearer for the myth of the bohemian artist the unappreciated artist-genius consoled by wine and drugs. This celebrated myth is based […]

I am a Jew; I live in a Jewish house and am raising a Jewish family on Jewish land in the Jewish community of Gush Katif, about a mile from the Mediterranean Sea in what many call the Gaza Strip. I have been living with the same wife in the same house for the past […]

ATHENS, Aug. 4 (JTA) Although the largest Jewish community in Greece resides in Athens, Jews from Salonika remnants of a once-thriving community are more active and cohesive. In Salonika, known in Greek as Thessaloniki, where 1,000 of the countrys 5,000 Jews live today, the synagogue has a regular minyan and younger Jews gather at the […]

The “settlement blocs” Prime Minister Sharon promised to keep safe are clearly in danger. Not only is his disengagement/expulsion plan for Gaza and northern Shomron picking up steam, it now appears headed for the rest of Judea and Samaria as well. The Defense Ministry has completed a large-scale project to mark the existing built-up borders […]

Uterine fibroids are the most common reason for surgery among women of reproductive age, after caesarean section. Approximately 200,000 women in the United States currently undergo hysterectomies each year for the treatment of uterine fibroids. But with an FDA panel’s recommendation for the approval of a new Israeli-designed system for non-invasive treatment of uterine fibroids, […]

On August 26, 1827, Tsar Nicholas I published the Recruitment Decree calling for conscription of Jewish boys between the ages of twelve and twenty-five. These boys were known as Cantonists, derived from the term canton, referring to the districts where they were sent and the barracks in which they were kept. Conscripts under the age […]

Egypt and Jordan are the two Arab countries with which Israel has signed peace treaties. Here’s what they have to say of late. Dr. Osama al-Baz, a top aide to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said yesterday that Israel should withdraw from all “occupied Arab lands” up to the pre-Six Day War lines, abandon its military […]

Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerrys newly appointed Middle East advisor, Martin Indyk, has been working for years to garner American support for Yasser Arafat and his terrorist regime. As the Middle East Advisor to the Clinton administration, Indyk managed to help Arafat wrest complete control over the Palestinian people through deceit and subterfuge. And now, […]

Though it is widely believed that economic agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are frozen because of the latter’s refusal to fulfill its basic obligation to fight terrorism – it’s not true. Only two weeks ago, on July 18, Israel transferred no less than 4.3 million shekels – almost $1 million – to the […]

On June 19, 1967, in the wake of the Six Day War, the U.S. Secretary of Defense instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to present their “views, without regard to political factors, on the minimum territory” that Israel would be “justified in retaining in order to permit a more effective defense against possible conventional Arab […]