Chicago Jewish Star back issues from February 2009:
Keeping your woman alive
Feb 06, 2009; ... NOT DIAMONDS OR CLOTHES, BUT ATTENDING SERVICES CUTS A WOMAN'S DEATH RISK Here's a news flash for the health conscious: Regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death for women by 20 percent, according to a new study. The study by researchers at Yeshiva ...
Israeli citizens, at last
Feb 06, 2009; ... BLACK HEBREWS, TRIBE OF JUDAH DIMONA, Israel, Feb. 3 - Four decades after they heard what they call an angel's order to leave the United States and move to Israel, a vegan community popularly known as "the Black Hebrews" has finally received its own piece of the Holy Land. On ...
WRONG AGAIN
Feb 06, 2009; ... UN RETRACTS CLAIM THAT ISRAEL STRUCK GAZA SCHOOL JERUSALEM, Feb. 3 The United Nations has backed off a claim that Israel struck one of its schools in Gaza. The Jan. 6 incident, in which 43 Palestinians were killed, has been a major point of contention between Israel and the ...
ISRAEL TILTING TO THE RIGHT
Feb 06, 2009; ... POLLS: RIGHT-WING AND RELIGIOUS PARTIES LEAD; NETANYAHU ON THE CUSP JERUSALEM - If the polls are right (and in Israel, anything can happen), the outcome of Israel's Feb. 10 election is a foregone conclusion. Not only does Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud seem bound to emerge as the ...
Israelis Unveil o Secret Weapon
Feb 06, 2009; ... ARAD - An Israel Air Force major - we'll call him "Major X" - is armed with a secret weapon Tom Cruise never had in "Top Gun": tefillin (not to mention a yiddisher kopf). Sporting a green kippah seruga (crocheted skullcap) to match his khaki flight uniform, the strapping 30-something ...
Jewish Dems have a go at Blago
Feb 06, 2009; ... ABUSE OF POWER, GREED, DISTRUST, CORRUPTION CALL FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM FEIGENHOLTZ : STATE'S ELECTED LEADERS CANT ESCAPE BLAME The day after the FBI arrested then-Governor Rod Blagojevich and led him away in handcuffs on Dec. 9, State Representative Karen May (D-Highland Park) ...
Tight-lipped Natarus
Feb 06, 2009; ... LONG-TIME ALDERMAN, AVOIDING HOT QUESTIONS, REVIEWS HIS PUBLIC CAREER The typically garrulous Burt Natarus, alderman of the 42nd Ward for 36 years, was uncharacteri s t i c a 1 1 y muted in reminisci ? g January 25 about his career in Chicago politics. Some of the 50 people who ...
HUNDREDS RALLY OPPOSITE VENEZUELAN CONSULATE
Feb 06, 2009; ... Protestors in front of the Venezuelan Consulate in New York rallied Feb. 2 to express solidarity with the Venezuelan Jewish community following vandalism to a Caracas synagogue. Demonstrators called on the Hugo Chavez ...
YOU BE THE JUDGE
Feb 06, 2009; ... TOPIC Ending extremism "President Obama repeatedly extended his hand to the world's Muslims in his first ten days in power. His respectful tone and gestures toward Arab states in particular were as welcome as they were deft. But it would be a mistake to conclude that the ...
NEWS BRIEFS
Feb 06, 2009; ... Israeli and Turkish officials said relations remained good in the wake of a public falling-out between the countries' leaders. "We give special importance to our bilateral ties with Israel and we want to preserve ties with that country," Cemil Cicek, Turkey's deputy prime minister, was quoted as ...
"Motherf****** bastards"
Feb 06, 2009; ... SYDNEY Australia - Maqsood Alshams, a human rights activist who had organized a conference on Palestine here, called off the Jan. 29 event after apologizing for his ...
The Blagojevich fiasco
Feb 06, 2009; ... Illinois is rid of a lousy politician, but has anything really changed? ROD BLAGOJEVICH WAS A LOUSY governor. The JEWISH STAR published news articles which revealed him to be a politician lacking sawy or reliability. The Jewish Star did not endorse Blagojevich in either of his successful ...
A MOMENT IN A PHOTO
Feb 06, 2009; ... Lucky his name wasn't Schwarzenegger In what has become a tradition to mark notable local events, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower at 300 E. Randolph configured its office lights to ...
D. C.
Feb 06, 2009; ... AFTER EIGHT YEARS LONG ON RHETORIC and short on performance, the United States has a leader who is personally committed to "actively and aggressively" work for peace in the Middle East, as President Barack Obama said several times during his first week in office. But are the Israelis and ...
1989
Feb 06, 2009; ... Begun, Nudel protest Pollard imprisonment JERUSALEM, February 7 - Two prominent Soviet ex-refuseniks, who themselves struggled for years for the right to leave the Soviet Union, have taken up the cause of Jonathan Pollard and his wife Anne Henderson Pollard. Ida Nudel and Yosef Begun ...
TALKING POINTS
Feb 06, 2009; ... TALK: "Hamas behaved as any 'resistance movement' would In reaction to Israel's Operation Cast Lead." POINT: Hamas is not a 'resistance movement,' it is a terrorist organization whose attacks precipitated Operation Cast Lead. The group's behavior also violated international legal ...
10 Reasons Why the World Should Love Jews
Feb 06, 2009; ... VaLENTINE'S DAY IS COMING - AS A JEW RIGHT NOW, ARE YOU FEELING THE LOVE? Between the Madoff swindle and the invasion of Gaza, there's not a whole lot of love toward Jews in the air. The Jewish community could use a nice card right about now. Not one of those postmodern sarcastic ones, ...
DOUBT: Charles Darwin: From Bible-quoter to Bible-thumper
Feb 06, 2009; ... 2009 marks both the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 1 50th anniversary of his epochal Origin of Species. The famed Englishman's scientific works caused volcanic eruptions of doubt throughout the religious world. In his personal life, writes Jewish Star Editor Douglas ...
WE'RE COOKING
Feb 06, 2009; ... WHEN OUR BOYS WERE TODDLERS AND my husband a lowly student, having friends over for supper was a casual, low-budget affair. It was spaghetti and meat balls or a pot of chili, along with a couple bottles of Chianti. Later we graduated to pot-luck suppers, with everybody contributing a ...
BOOK MARKS
Feb 06, 2009; ... THE ISSUE OF THE RESISTANCE of European Jews to the Nazis, though long ignored, is far from being unexplored. Already 41 years ago, a major conference on it - touching on active and passive, and physical and non-physical, manifestations of resistance - took place in Jerusalem. For the ...
DISCOVERING TORAH
Feb 06, 2009; ... Publicity, yes; Vengeance, no Exodus 13:17 -17:16 Shabbat, February 7 THE CENTERPIECE OF THIS WEEK'S parsha is the Shirat Ha-Yam, the song sung by Moses and the children of Israel at the crossing of the Red Sea. As one modern commentator describes it, the song "gives ...
MERKEL CALLS OUT POPE
Feb 06, 2009; ... BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel openly criticized the Vatican on Feb. 3 for its rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying cleric. Merkel, who is Protestant, demanded a clear statement from the German-born Benedict XVI regarding the case of Bishop Richard ...
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 ...
FRONT ROW
Feb 20, 2009; ... FRONT ROW THE ARTFULLY ETCHED AND DEEPLY discomfiting romantic drama "Two Lovers" begins with the disturbed main character slipping fully clothed over the railing of a Brighton Beach pier and far below the surface of the rippling water. We know this suicide attempt won't succeed, ...
HE WHO LAUGHS, LASTS
Feb 20, 2009; ... SHOW ME THE MONEY Rabbi Samuel is leading a Bible study group at his shul when all of a sudden an angel appears. The angel says to the rabbi, "Reb Shmuel, you are an example to all of your congregants and fellow men. You are totally unselfish, your behavior is faultless, your ...