Chicago Jewish Star back issues from November 2007:
Annapolis (if it happens)
Nov 02, 2007; ... BACKGROUND TO THE NEWS Not much to expect from a conference ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT IS negotiating with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to make the planned international conference in Annapolis a success and move the parties closer to ...
It's about time
Nov 02, 2007; ... Gaza and its citizens, rejoice: You are free to fend for yourselves OVER TWO YEARS AGO, ISRAEL HOPED that in unilaterally removing its forces and people from Gaza, an opportunity for peace would be realized. But the Kassam rockets have never stopped being launched from Gaza into ...
TALKING POINTS
Nov 02, 2007; ... TALK: "Israel is once again expelling Arabs from Palestine." POINT: Palestinians are fleeing in droves of their own volition. Israel is not forcing any of them to leave. Today, Palestinians have the opportunity to build the infrastructure of a democratic state in the Palestinian ...
Regrets? Remorse? Amir: "Absolutely not"
Nov 02, 2007; ... ANALYSIS The life of Rabin's assassin On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead as he was getting into his car following his participation at a left-wing political rally in Tel Aviv that supported the Oslo Accord. His assassin was a ...
1987
Nov 02, 2007; ... Weinberger won't be missed WASHINGTON, November 4 - The expected resignation of Defense Sec. Caspar Weinberger would remove from Pres. Reagan's cabinet the leading opponent of the expanding alliance between the U.S. and Israel over the last seven years. While maintaining that he is not ...
Palestinian uses Israel Lobby book in justifying his refusal to testify
Nov 02, 2007; ... ASHQAR, WHO CHOSE SILENCE IN HAMAS LINKS TRIAL HERE, SEEKS SENTENCE LENIENCY; SAYS U.S. PROSECUTION AIMED "TO SUPPORT A BANKRUPT, RACIST FOREIGN POLICY" Emerson: Ashqar lawyer "has been drinking the Kool-Aid too long" MEARSHEIMER-WALT BOOK IS HEAVILY CITED The conspiracy ...
'A JAZZ SINGER SINGING TO HIS GOD'
Nov 02, 2007; ... DVD Player * Al Jolson's landmark "Jazz Singer" gets a lush 80th anniversary treatment THAT THROBBING VOICE AND MANIC DELIVERY STILL HAVE A FULL-THROTTLE EMOTIONALISM THAT SQUEEZES YOUR HEART "You ain't heard nothin' yet!" Al Jolson cried from the smoky jazz club stage in ...
D. C.
Nov 02, 2007; ... Giuliani, the GOP, and the Christian Right FOUR YEARS AGO IT SEEMED LIKE ALL the presidential candidates were looking for their Jewish roots; now they're fighting over who is the best Christian. Most of the religious wars are being fought in the Republican party, but the ...
BOOK MARKS
Nov 02, 2007; ... BOOK MARKS Capturing the sweep of Jewish history ISRAELI WRITER MlCHAL GOVRIN'S awardwinning 2002 novel, grounded in the country's history since statehood and in its contemporary reality, is newly available in English. Reading this second novel by Tel-Aviv born Govrin, a ...
No common ground for survivors of suicide bomber
Nov 02, 2007; ... No common ground for survivors of suicide bomber ON MARCH 29, 2002, at 2 p.m., an Israeli teenager and a security guard were killed in a suicide bombing in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. It was a typically gruesome attack, but it had an atypical - and chilling - ...
HE WHO LAUGHS, LASTS
Nov 02, 2007; ... WORDS OF THE WISE Why spoil a good meal? GETTING ALONG Ted and Uri are constant companions. Ted is calm and laid back and never complains, whereas Uri is a nervous person and is always complaining about something or another. One day Uri says, "How do you manage to ...
DISCOVERING TORAH
Nov 02, 2007; ... A focus on the "head" Genesis-25:19-28:9 Shabbat, November 10 THIS WEEK, WE READ IN TOLDOT OF Isaac giving blessings to his son Jacob. The story is familiar: Isaac has two sons, named Jacob and Esau. Esau is the bad guy; Jacob is the good guy. Esau spends his days ...
FRONT ROW
Nov 02, 2007; ... FRONT ROW Film riffles through Carter book tour ACCORDING TO JlMMY CARTER, EXTREME frustration provided the impetus for his twenty-first book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Not a single day of peace talks took place between Israel and the Palestinians in the first six ...
The Future of the ONCE & PRESENT "Ruin"
Nov 02, 2007; ... "The Hurva" synagogue in Jerusalem - started, abandoned, destroyed, rebuilt, and razed again - is about to undergo a "new-old" resurrection. VISITORS TO THE JEWISH QUARTER HERE (KNOWN IN HEBREW AS "harova") can't help but notice the old-new Hurva Synagogue now under construction. When ...
Synagogue: A place for Jews
Nov 16, 2007; ... Messianic Jews and a way out for the Skokie Public Library WHEN THE SKOKIE PUBLIC LIBRARY decided to include listings of community groups on its SkokieNet website, it positioned itself (perhaps unwittingly) to be involved in controversy (front page report). Defining which group ...
On the verge
Nov 16, 2007; ... What to expect in Annapolis IF THE INTERNATIONAL MIDEAST CONFERENCE ever takes place in Annapolis, what can one expect? Here's an exclusive preview. The Mideast is on the verge of exploding. We are at a point of no-return. It's now-ornever. The moderates must be supported or they ...
A Jewish 'Sport'
Nov 16, 2007; ... MY ISRAEL WHEN MY TWO UNDER-10-YEAR-OLD grandchildren get together, they don't kick around a soccer ball or take out a Monopoly board, they play chess. Unlike their grandfather, the two love the game and are quite good at it. Chess is by no means new to Israel. It has long been ...
More than Picasso, faster than a speeding bullet
Nov 16, 2007; ... MORRIS KATZ, MASTER OF "INSTANT ART" A canvas in 43 Seconds? No problem JERUSALEM - Morris Katz claims to be both the world's fastest and most prolific artist, having painted and sold more than 250,000 canvases in a career spanning more than half a century. By his own admission, ...
GROUP RALLIES FOR A UNITED JERUSALEM
Nov 16, 2007; ... FUTURE EVENTS PLANNED HERE AND ON EAST COAST A rally downtown on an overcast November 11 day calling for Jerusalem to remain a city united under Israeli sovereignty, and for the cessation of destructive activity under the Waqfcontrolled Temple Mount in Jerusalem, drew some 40 ...
1987
Nov 16, 2007; ... 'Skinhead' arrested in Chicago case NEW YORK, November 15 - A 22-year-old Chicago man with links to at least two neoNazi groups, was arraigned [Nov. 16] and charged with breaking windows and painting swastikas on the walls of a Jewish meat market, according to Chicago police [on the ...
"I am ready!"
Nov 16, 2007; ... The following is adapted from a letter written by Abe Lapson in February 2007. It was two days before his twentieth birthday, and just as he was beginning two-and-a-half-years of combat service in the Israel Defense Forces. Abe is the son of Alex and Anna Lapson, who came to the United ...
TALKING POINTS
Nov 16, 2007; ... TALK: "The 'occupation' has sapped Israel's morale, as reflected by the decline in Israelis willing to serve in the IDF." POINT: The Israeli government recently released figures showing that 25 percent of potential male draftees do not serve in the Israel Defense Forces (Jewish Star, ...
D. C.
Nov 16, 2007; ... IRAN WON'T BE INVITED TO THE ANNAPOLIS soiree President Bush plans to convene shortly after Thanksgiving, but it will be uppermost in everyone's mind, and the real reason the administration expects a good turnout. The public purpose of the meeting is to revive the Israeli-Palestinian ...
FRONT ROW
Nov 16, 2007; ... FRONT ROW WHEN WE MEET JAKE SlNGER, THE thoroughly likable protagonist of Oren Rudavsky's terrific romantic comedy "The Treatment," he's stalking his exgirlfriend outside a Manhattan restaurant. He means no harm to her. He's just having a hard time letting go. Jake is in ...
WE'RE COOKING
Nov 16, 2007; ... THE BROAD-BREASTED TURKEY, ROASTED to golden perfection, is the symbol of our American Thanksgiving, the centerpiece of our traditional holiday dinner. Besides the turkey, the table is laden with relishes, sweet potatoes, vegetable dishes and for dessert, the venerable pumpkin pie. But ...
Return to Prague
Nov 16, 2007; ... It had only been six years, but a visitor finds a bustling city with Jewish life scarred by the past There is something very satisfying about returning to a country or city that you have visited previously. It is a kind of deja vu, remembering the scenes and atmosphere of earlier ...
DISCOVERING TORAH
Nov 16, 2007; ... THIS WEEK, WE READ THE SADDEST story in all of Chumash: the story of a man who has forgotten his dream. At the beginning of parshat Vayetzei, Jacob leaves his parents' home for two reasons: to flee his brother Esau, who has threatened his life (Gen. XXVII:42-45), and to seek the divine ...
*SYNAGOGUE*OTHER*NEITHER
Nov 16, 2007; ... SKOKIE LIBRARY STANDS BY ITS LISTING OF A MESSIANIC GROUP UNDER "SYNAGOGUES" Can a congregation or group that believes Jesus is the messiah call itself a synagogue? The Skokie Public Library says they can if that's what they want, but an angry village resident claims they don't ...
Skokie Library refines its web listings, but critics aren't mollified
Nov 30, 2007; ... WEB CATEGORIES NOW INCLUDE "SYNAGOGUE, MESSIANIC" Less than a week after a report and editorial in the JEWISH STAR about listing a Skokie messianic group as a synagogue, the Skokie Public Library has modified the listing on its SkokieNet website. The group, Devar Emet Messianic ...
Spertus Steps Up
Nov 30, 2007; ... JEWISH EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL CENTER STRIDES INTO ITS NEW BUILDING Seven months after a "hard-hat tour" of the under-construction site of the new Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, the facility opens its doors to the public on Nov. 30. A preview tour on Nov. 20 revealed a ...
Praying the Shema but preaching Jesus
Nov 30, 2007; ... WITH OVER 300 GROUPS, MESSIANICS WANT TO SEND A MESSAGE TO JEWS On Saturday mornings at Congregation Sha'arei Shalom in Cary, N.C., a suburb of Raleigh, the Sabbath morning service has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a ...
ANNAPOLIS THOUGHTS
Nov 30, 2007; ... No recognition of a Jewish state, no talks By DANIEL PIPES DIRECTOR, MIDDLE EAST FORUM Surprisingly, something useful has emerged from the combination of the misconceived Annapolis meeting and a weak Israeli prime minister, Ehud ("Peace is achieved through concessions") ...
ASHQAR: 11 YEARS
Nov 30, 2007; ... KEY PLAYER IN HAMAS USA REFUSED TO TESTIFY Abdelhaleem Ashqar, whose refusal to testify before a grand jury in Chicago investigating Hamas links in this country was justified by his lawyer on the basis of allegations made by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their book The Israel ...
NEWS BRIEFS
Nov 30, 2007; ... Two Israeli movie theaters paid damages to a group of Israeli army reservists after screening a controversial documentary on Israel's Jenin offensive in 2002. The Tel Aviv and Jerusalem cinemas this week paid $10,000 total in compensation to five former soldiers who had sued them for screening ...
Spertus' achievement
Nov 30, 2007; ... As Spertus takes a new step, a proud moment for Chicago Jewry LOCAL NEWSPAPERS WHICH HAVE reported on the opening of the new Spertus Institute building on Michigan Avenue have focused, understandably, on the architecture of the 10-story, $55 million building (front page report, this ...
D. C.
Nov 30, 2007; ... AT THE SAME TIME THAT ISRAELI leaders are making the rounds of world capitals trying to mobilize international pressure to block Iranian nuclear ambitions, the ayatollahs could be acquiring Israeli military technology to advance their goal of eradicating the Jewish state. Seven years ...
1987
Nov 30, 2007; ... Sara Lee disputes boycott charges NEW YORK, December 1 - The Chicago-based Sara Lee Corporation is calling "misleading and grossly exaggerated" Commerce Department charges that it violated anti-boycott provisions of the Export Administration Act. The 10-year-old act prohibits ...
TALKING POINTS
Nov 30, 2007; ... TALK: "East Jerusalem should be part of a Palestinian state because all Its residents are Palestinian Arabs and no Jews have ever lived there." POINT: Before 1865, the entire population of Jerusalem lived behind the Old City walls (what today would be considered part of the eastern part ...
Why Pollard Begins His 23rd Year in Prison
Nov 30, 2007; ... Q & A on an on-going tragedy JONATHAN POLLARD BEGAN HIS 23RD YEAR IN PRISON ON NOVEMBER 21. HIS supporters (such as the group Justice for Jonathan Pollard) encapsulate why the convicted spy won't see daylight anytime soon. Last February, for example, the group circulated a ...
A Light Better than the Kindle(TM)
Nov 30, 2007; ... FOR KIDS Escape the hype of the seasonal gift-giving push, and this Hanukkah, offer your kids something nice and lowtech - like books. Jewish books, in particular. Notwithstanding Amazon's new Kindle device, designed to be a 21st Century technological concept of a book, holding ...
Doc depicts end of an era for Libyan Jews
Nov 30, 2007; ... Doc depicts end of an era for Libyan Jews FRONT ROW "THE LAST JEWS OF LIBYA," regrettably, does not deliver on the full promise of its title. The viewer tunes in for an in-depth recounting of a little-known chapter in history, and instead gets one extended family's saga ...
Garlin curbs 'Cheese' intake in low-key film
Nov 30, 2007; ... AS COMEDIANS GO, JEFF GARLIN IS WHAT you might call sh tick-less. He's an ordinary guy, calmly navigating the everyday oddness of modern life. Or is that his shtick? "I try and go grocery shopping and go to the dry cleaners and do all those things," he confides, "because I feel ...
Dismantling Edward Said's Orientalism
Nov 30, 2007; ... Dismantling Edward Said's Orientalism BOOK MARKS BEFORE HIS DEATH, EDWARD SAID (1935-2003), a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York, had become the unofficial head of the coterie of intellectuals for whom the State of Israel was, in ...
Relating physical and spiritual
Nov 30, 2007; ... DISCOVERING TORAH Genesis 37:1 - 40:23 Shabbat, December 1 PEOPLE OFTEN THINK OF SIGMUND Freud when they think of dream interpretation, but Freud's illustrious reputation was preceded many millennia by Joseph, in the Book of Genesis. In this week's parsha, ...