Recently added articles from Chicago Jewish Star:
British PM tells Knesset of Israeli ties
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... SPECIAL TO THE CHICAGO JEWISH STAR British Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his country's solid support for Israel and at the same time his conviction that a two-state solution with the Palestinians is within reach in a July 21 address to the Knesset. It was the first time a ...
As Beijing opens, a Munich survivor talks of '72 Olympics
Aug 01, 2008; Tigay, Chanan ... The Munich Olympics were meant to be a defining moment in Dan Alon's, life - but not the way they turned out. Alon was one of five Israeli athletes who escaped the 1972 massacre of Israel's Olympic team by Palestinian terrorists. Thirty-six years later, he still can't shake what ...
WAS SPY OUTED?
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EGYPTIAN WHO TRIED TO WARN ISRAEL OF '73 WAR DIES MYSTERIOUSLY JERUSALEM -A retired Israeli spymaster is under investigation on suspicion of leaking the identity of a top Egyptian informant. Eli Zeira, who served as chief of military intelligence during the Yom Kippur War, is the ...
'Impossible choice' for Agriprocessors' workers?
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WASHINGTON - A U.S. congressional subcommittee investigated July 24 the federal immigration raid at the Agriprocessors' kosher slaughterhouse. The raid, said to be the largest single-site workplace raid in American history, led to a "fast-tracked" legal process in which some 300 ...
UNESCO lists Haifa gardens, but still no Jerusalem
Aug 01, 2008; Zohar, Gil ... BAHÁ'Í SHRINE IN HAIFA IS 6TH ISRAELI SITE SINCE 2001 BUT UN BODY CONDEMNS DIGS JERUSALEM STUCK ON "DANGER LIST" ANALYSIS Rescind this calumny JERUSALEM - Two Bahá'í sites in Israel have been added to the World Heritage List of the UN's Educational, ...
Bahá'í Shrine Listed
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... UN, SHMOO-N SPIRITUAL GARDENS - In 2001, some 5 million Bahá'í followers worldwide raised $250 million to beautify the ...
AMPLIFICATION
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The phrase yom assal, yom bassal - "one day honey, one day onions" - is an Arabic expression used in Hebrew ...
36-36-36 not 08-08-08
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The true Olympic numbers to bear in mind THE SHAM OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES AS ALL about sportsmanship, athletic achievement and the nobility of competition is accepted at face value by no one other than International Olympic Committee officials. Ditto the myth that playing host to ...
The first-time traveller
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Obama's views on the Israeli situation are not novel or likely to work BARACK OBAMA'S IMPORTANT WHIRLWIND trip to Israel last week provided him with a second view of the country and an opportunity to again meet with Israeli officials (his previous visit came a few days after Ariel Sharon ...
NEWS BRIEFS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A Muslim man who attacked a Jewish girl and her friends has been handed a one-year jail sentence from a Canadian court. Mustafa Taj will also serve a year of probation, ruled provincial court Judge Bill Cummings, according to the Calgary Sun. The judge ruled the assault was a hate crime. Taj, ...
Lessons from Yesterday
Aug 01, 2008; Purcell, Tom ... ON THE LIGHTER SIDE AS THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MOVES along and Americans take to arguing around water coolers and dinner tables, we ought to embrace the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers (1879-1935). I introduced that suggestion in a column last year (JEWISH STAR, July 13, 2007), ...
1988
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... King Hussein cuts ties to West Bank JERUSALEM, August 1 - Israeli leaders expressed uncertainty today about the true intentions of Jordan's King Hussein towards Palestinians in the West Bank. Hussein appeared on television July 31 to announce, in a landmark speech, that he was ...
TALKING POINTS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... TALK: "Hezballah is a resistance movement whose only interest is fighting Israel." POINT: Hezballah, backed by Iran and Syria, has been building up its forces since its establishment in the early 1980s, with the intent of eventually establishing an Islamic government in Lebanon and ...
D. C.
Aug 01, 2008; Bloomfield, Douglas M ... JOHN MCCAIN SHOULD KNOW BETTER, and so should pro-Israel voters. The GOP nominee-to-be must think we're a pretty gullible bunch of nudniks if he expects us to believe that he will move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem "right away" if he is elected president. It won't happen, and he knows ...
NEWSMAKERS
Aug 01, 2008; Steigerwald, Bill ... VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, A FORMER classics professor, is a renowned conservative scholar of ancient history and military affairs who has recently become a nationally syndicated columnist and blogger. The author of 17 books with titles like A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans ...
BOOK MARKS
Aug 01, 2008; Wertheimer, Gila ... IN THE MIDST OF THESE dog days of summer, when a feeling of listlessness may set in, what better reading to turn to than short stories? Just enough to involve and refresh, but not too much to overwhelm. In a most timely fashion, two new collections have just made their ...
FRONT ROW
Aug 01, 2008; Wilmington, Michael ... PROBABLY NOT MANY MOVIEGOERS THESE days remember the names of film directors Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. Yet, in their day, they changed the world. In 1953, Engel and Orkin - the subjects of an excellent new box set released this spring by Kino - made a gentle revolution, co-writing and ...
CALENDAR
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... August 1 - 14 Arts & Entertainment Mon., Aug. 4 - Chicago YIVO Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture presents the Russian Women's Melody Choir performing songs in Russian, English, Hebrew and Yiddish, 12:15 p.m., Sulzer Library, 4455 N. Lincoln, Chicago; free. Call ...
An end to "fill 'er up"
Aug 01, 2008; Zohar, Gil ... Israel becomes a test ground for the electric car Within a decade,says I dan Ofer, most Israelis will be driving an electric car. TEL AVIV The reality of Israel as equally the Flintstones and the Jetsons tipped toward the future with the launch in May of a visionary ...
DISCOVERING TORAH
Aug 01, 2008; Wertheimer, Shaul E ... LAST WEEK I WAS WALKING IN downtown Manhattan, and as I passed an upscale hotel, I noticed that there was a doorman in front, standing stoically. Just standing. As far as I could tell, he was not a security guard. Nor was he a bellboy. I'm not sure exactly what he was doing. I assume ...