Trial Seen Likely For Iranian Jews
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer At the urging of leaders in the Iranian Jewish community here, American Jewish leaders this week suspended their public campaign calling for the release of 13...
View ArticleDarkness After ‘Noon’
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer As a new biography shows, the second half of Arthur Koestler’s life, marked by a peculiar mix of Zionism and Jewish self-hatred, was one of steadily declining...
View ArticleRefusing To Give Up
Walter Ruby Special to The Jewish Week For one brief, shining moment late last month, the freedom struggle of Soviet Jewry came resplendently to life again some 40 years after it began. read more
View ArticleDavid Kimche, Top Israeli Spy, Dies At 82
(JTA) — David Kimche, the spy who played a key role in Israel’s 1980s entanglements with Iran and Lebanon, died Monday of brain cancer. He was 82.Kimche, born in Britain, fought in Israel’s...
View ArticleGauging The Fallout From British Expulsion
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Action against Israeli diplomat could pave way for possible arrests of IDF officers in England.Britain’s expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of a dozen forged...
View ArticleAs Britain Votes, Liberal Democrats’ Record on Israel Draws Scrutiny
Winston Pickett JTA LONDON (JTA) -- With Britain’s three-way race for prime minister entering the final lap, many Jews in Britain are wondering what Nick Clegg’s meteoric rise -- and the possibility...
View ArticleDelegates Walk Out on Ahmadinejad’s U.N. Speech
JTA NEW YORK (JTA) -- Delegates to a United Nations conference on nuclear proliferation walked out as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech, which attacked the United States and Israel.The delegates...
View ArticleWhy Do They Hate Us?
Jerome A. Chanes Special To The Jewish Week All I hear about these days is the “New Anti-Semitism.” The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman had a book some years ago — a rather gevaltist book — with...
View ArticleWake-Up Call For Britain
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was hardly surprised when it was revealed that the suicide bomber who murdered three people in a Tel Aviv jazz club April 30 was a...
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