Mark Twain's Jews.
0881259160 Mark Twain's Jews. Vogel, Dan. KTAV Pub. House 2006 146 pages $22.95 Hardcover PS1342 This study examines the controversy over whether Mark Twain was an anti-Semite by examining all mentions...

2 Filipino workers among 65 wounded in Jerusalem blast.
Two Filipino workers were among those wounded in the latest suicide bombing incident which occurred at the Mehane Yehuda market in West Jerusalem, Philippine Labor Attach? to Israel Jeffrey Cortazar said yesterday in a report to Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas. Sixty-five people were wounded while six...

Israel PM defies US pressure.
JERUSALEM, Israel (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday Israel's army would continue its offensive in the West Bank until it achieves its goals, but would try to finish it as soon as possible. In a speech that lasted almost an hour in a stormy...

PALESTINE - Oct 26 - Hamas Debunks Livni Remark.
Palestinian officials termed the statement made on Oct 26 by Tzipi Livni, Israeli PM designate, on recommending early parliamentary elections as an "internal Israeli affair" Hamas says it is the latest signal confirming the failure of the peace talks as a way to resolve the Palestine issue. "It is...

Career decision-making difficulties among Israeli and Palestinian Arab high-school seniors.
Making a career decision becomes a major priority for adolescents during the last year of high school. The present study examined the taxonomy of career decision-making difficulties among 1,613 Arab 12th-grade students attending schools in East Jerusalem, areas in the West Bank under the Palestinian National Authority, and Israel....

PALESTINE - Jan 7 - Settlements Must Stop, Says Abbas.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will ask US President George W. Bush, who visits the Middle East this week, to curb Israel's West Bank settlements for the sake of peace. Bush has called the expansion of Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land an impediment and said he would...

John McCain has outlined some of the tough measures he would take against Iran: negotiating global sanctions against Iranian banks, freezing the assets of regime leaders and imposing a visa ban on them, launching a worldwide divestment campaign, and restricting Iran's supply of gasoline (for all Iran's oil, 25 percent of its refined gasoline is imported).
John McCain has outlined some of the tough measures he would take against Iran: negotiating global sanctions against Iranian banks, freezing the assets of regime leaders and imposing a visa ban on them, launching a worldwide divestment campaign, and restricting Iran's supply of gasoline (for all Iran's oil, 25...

Israeli elections: a vote for apartheid.
"Israel votes for disengagement and final borders" and "Israelis abandon the dream of Greater Israel" were the main themes in the spin that characterized mainstream (and even some progressive) media coverage of the Israeli parliamentary elections which took place on March 28, 2006. In reality, the election results revealed...

My problem with the Amidah.
OUR CENTRAL PRAYER, THE AMIDAH, IN ITS WEEKDAY form, exemplifies at the highest level the combination of prayer as praise and as petition. In the first three benedictions we praise God, as if He were a King before whom we are presenting our petition, and in the last three,...

Iran Revives Query About 4 Missing - A Message To Israel.
Sharpening its image contest with Israel in the stand-off on Tehran's nuclear and regional ambitions, the theocracy has resurrected questions about the fate of four Iranians who went missing near Beirut in 1982 while Israeli forces occupied the Lebanese capital. Officials in the office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki...