Recently added articles from Chicago Jewish Star:
JAPANESE NOVELIST HARUKI MURAKAMI, IGNORING BOYCOTT, COLLECTS HIS PRIZE
Feb 20, 2009; ... JERUSALEM - Renown- ed Japanese novelist Har- uki Murakami, 60, receiv- ed the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Indiv- idual in Society on Febru- ary 15, at the opening of the 24th Jerusalem International Bool Fair. The Jerusalem Prize, a biennial literary award, has in the past ...
European parliament condemned
Feb 20, 2009; ... JEWISH CONGRESS SAYS IT WON'T DENOUNCE ATTACKS; CONGRESS HEAD RESIGNS MOSCOW - The European Jewish Congress condemned the European Parliament's refusal to openly denounce a wave of antiSemitic attacks in Europe. The EJC, the representative body of European Jewry, strongly urged ...
1st global anti-Semitism confab
Feb 20, 2009; ... LEGISLATORS MEET FROM 40 COUNTRIES IN LONDON, LINKING ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ZIONISM 64 YEARS AFTER END OF NAZI REICH LONDON, Feb. 17 -When 120 Parliamentarians from almost 40 countries from all over the world gather to find ways to work together to fight the scourge of ...
Time for electoral reform?
Feb 20, 2009; ... If there is a resounding message emerging from Is- rael's inconclusive election it is that the electoral system is broken and needs to be fixed before the next time voters go to the polls. And that, recent history suggests, won't be a long time coming. Last week's was the third Knesset ...
After only 512 years, a Portuguese first
Feb 20, 2009; ... JERUSALEM - For the first time since the expulsion of Jews from Portugal in 1497, a dairy product has been granted kosher certification there. The pro- duction of Serra de Es- trala cheese is supervised by Rabbi Daniel Litvak, an emissary for the Israel- based Shavei Israel orga- ...
Durban II talks ok'd by U.S.
Feb 20, 2009; ... WASHINGTON - A U.S. State Department news release Feb. 14 said the Obama administration will participate in the preparatory talks for the April United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Geneva in order to "change the direction" in which the conference is heading. The release said ...
YOU BE THE JUDGE
Feb 20, 2009; ... "Venezuela's Jewish community seems to have re- placed George W. Bush as President Hugo Chavez's favorite foil. After Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza last month, the caudillo [political-military leader, i.e., Chavez] expelled Israel's ambassador and described Israel's actions in ...
ISRAEL TRANSFERRING APPLES TO SYRIA
Feb 20, 2009; ... JERUSALEM - Israeli apple growers are transferring 8,000 tons of fruit to Syria. The transfer, from Druze orchards in the Golan ...
CORRECTION
Feb 20, 2009; ... "Jewish Dems have a go at Blago" (Feb. 6) incorrectly implied that Illinois State Senator Heather Steans ...
NEWS BRIEFS
Feb 20, 2009; ... For the first time, France officially recognized it was guilty of helping murder French Jews during World War II. On Feb. 16 the country's high court, the Council of State, took the opportunity to hold France "responsible" for sending Jews to Nazi camps, when asked about a related case on ...
The Jewish problem
Feb 20, 2009; ... From Austria to Zimbabwe, an outbreak of a virulent virus AMAZING. IT'S BARELY 64 YEARS SINCE the end of World War Il and the Holocaust, and the public expression of antiSemitism in Europe is again acceptable. Words like "Holocaust", "Nazi" and "genocide" are used to describe ...
Daley in Dubai
Feb 20, 2009; ... Did the Mayor see what's in store for Chicago? MAYOR Richard Daley was in Dubai this week discussing - believe it or not - economic and educational issues with the country's ruling leader. We hope that he found the time to follow the week's developments, because one which occurred right ...
Where Green Doesn't Mean 'Go'
Feb 20, 2009; ... MY ISRAEL JERUSALEM IN ISRAEL, THE RULES OF THE ROAD APPLY rather loosely: many drivers view a red light as an indication to proceed with caution. A stop sign is a suggestion, and a crosswalk is paint spilled on the asphalt. Knowing all of this, one wintry night two years ...
D. C.
Feb 20, 2009; ... H e's baaaack. The Typhoid Mary of nuclear proliferation is a free man again, and that has a lot of people worried. A. Q. Khan, the father of the Islamic Bomb and the man who also helped sire North Korea's nuclear device, Iran's bombin-the-making and Syria's interrupted attempt, was ...
1989
Feb 20, 2009; ... Ultra-Orthodox join in Rushdie protest JERUSALEM, February 21 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews have joined Moslem clergy in Israel in denouncing Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses," which will appear in Israel soon in Hebrew translation. Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, of the Degel HaTbrah party, ...
TALKING POINTS
Feb 20, 2009; ... TALK: "Palestinians in Gaza are innocent victims." POINT: It is tragic that many Palestinians who are not directly involved in terrorism are suffering as a result of the actions of their leaders. While no one wants to see any noncombatants harmed, it is important to acknowledge ...
How to Draw Obama
Feb 20, 2009; ... PRESIDENT OBAMA SEEMS LIKE AN EASY GUY TO DRAW: HE S SKINNY, HAS A BIG CHIN, expressive eyebrows and lips. But as it turns out, no matter how a cartoonist draws him, somebody gets mad. When Obama burst into the presidential campaign cartoonists started drawing him as a caricature without ...
A Force for Good
Feb 20, 2009; ... Chicago philanthropist and businessman Julius Rosenwald hewed out a legacy of many good deeds. One of them is now on view at the Spertus Institute. He was a businessman and a philanthropist; a white who funded black education, the arts and sciences decades before the civil rights ...
BOOK MARKS
Feb 20, 2009; ... BOOK MARKS PART BIOGRAPHY, PART MEMOIR, PART history, part dramatization, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar (Algonquin Books, 2008, 332 pp., $25.95) is a journey to an exotic land, a son's quest to understand his father and, along the ...
BOOK BRIEFS
Feb 20, 2009; ... NEW & NOTABLE The plight of Jews in the Soviet Union, which eventually galvanized world-wide Jewry to protest, demonstrate, march and lobby on their behalf, is the story told in Triumph Over Tyranny by Philip Spiegel (Devora Publishing, 551 pp., $27.95). Spiegel and his wife became ...