The Jerusalem Report back issues from February 2008:
The Mighty Petrodollar
Feb 04, 2008; ... The Mighty Petrodollar For more than half a century Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and theUnited Arab Emirates have been awash in petrodollars. Yet they arestill underdeveloped, in particular their human resources. The Gulf states have a wonderful infrastructure in term of ...
Blood on their Hands 1
Feb 04, 2008; ... Blood on Their Hands 1 With negotiations on the release of the abducted Israeli soldierGilad Shalit moving into high gear and Hizballah leader SheikhHassan Nasrallah making new noises about wanting to exchange real orimaginary body parts of IDF soldiers, the domestic argument ...
Dateline
Feb 04, 2008 ... JERUSALEM: The world Jewish population in 2007 is estimated at13.2 million people, an increase of some 200,000 over 2006,according to a report by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institutepublished on January 6. In the past year, the number of DiasporaJews shrank by 100,000, while ...
At Your Service
Feb 04, 2008; ... At Your Service Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore have all succeeded as financialservice centers. Can Israel? "Take Singapore as one example." Dan Galai, professor of businessadministration at Hebrew University and CEO of Sigma PCM, a Ramat-Gan based portfolio management firm, ...
14 Days
Feb 04, 2008 ... KATYUSHA ATTACK: Two Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel fromsouthern Lebanon January 8, the first day of U.S. President GeorgeBush's visit to the country. No one was hurt and no damage wascaused. The rockets were not detected by the army's early warningsystem. A military ...
The Name Finder
Feb 04, 2008; ... The Name Finder A non-Jewish postman from Berlin is the unlikely author of an award-winning reference book on German Jewish genealogy Lars Menk's life revolves around names. By day he deals with thenames of the living - residents of Berlin to whom he deliversletters. At night ...
Letters
Feb 04, 2008 ... Muslim Model Your story "Ankara Flexes Its Mideast Muscles" (Jan.21) on Turkey shows why Israel's relationship with that country isan important one. A moderate Muslim state like Turkey might serveas a bridge through which Israel could one day reach a comprehensivepeace with the rest of ...
Inflation Had Gadya
Feb 04, 2008; ... Inflation Had Gadya In today's globalized world, distant events have a powerfulimpact on people everywhere. Take food, for instance. Food prices in America, Europe andIsrael have soared. Between August and November Israel's Consumer Price Index (CPI)rose at an ...
Defense reveals tactics in AIPAC spy case
Feb 04, 2008; ... Defense reveals tactics in AIPAC spy case Convictions in the trial of ex-AIPAC officials Steve Rosen andKenneth Weissman on charges of passing classified information toIsrael, scheduled to begin in Washington on April 29, couldsignificantly reduce the influence of lobbies in ...
Solitary Sisters
Feb 04, 2008; ... Solitary Sisters Israel Museum showcases women without men If you've come to "A Room of Her Own," an exhibition of women inart from the Israel Museum's permanent collection, with theexpectation of gazing at erotic nudes, pietistic Madonnas ordespotic queens, you've come to ...
Quote/Unquote
Feb 04, 2008 ... "If the rockets were launched from Lebanese territory, as islikely, the incident would constitute a serious violation of UNSCResolution 1701." United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in astatement January 11 referring to Katyusha attacks on NorthernIsrael 3 days earlier. No one was ...
Meeting The Next Door Neighbor
Feb 04, 2008; ... Meeting the Next Door Neighbor We did not want to eat in Amman's Toledo Hotel's restaurant, sowe asked the man at the front desk if he could suggest a goodrestaurant within walking distance. He looked embarrassed, gave the elder gentleman standing next tous a sheepish grin, ...
God's Core Issues
Feb 04, 2008; ... God's Core Issues The Torah portion Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1-24:18, is read onShabbat, February 2 "You ask questions," he said. This was many years ago, and thesenior rabbi was trying to teach the student intern something aboutthe work. "You ask questions about all sorts of ...
The long Ride Home
Feb 04, 2008; ... The Long Ride Home Jerusalem Report Editor-in-Chief Eetta Prince-Gibson accompanies191 new immigrants from North America on the flight that will changetheir lives forever Ezra Raoul Weissman, dressed in jeans and a loose sweater, looksat his parents anxiously as he waits for ...
Foggy View From Ramallah
Feb 04, 2008; ... Foggy View from Ramallah Palestinians were hoping for a sign that U.S. President Bushwould correct what they perceive as longstanding favoritism towardIsrael The clouds hung low over the Jerusalem hilltops on the morning ofU.S. President George Bush's January 10 visit to the ...
Severe Water Shortage Looms
Feb 04, 2008; ... Severe water shortage looms Three successive winters with below-average rainfall haveintensified Israel's chronic water shortage, with experts warning ofpossible irreversible damage if this year's rains come up shortagain. All of the country's main water reservoirs, including ...
'A major blow to the democratic process in this country'
Feb 04, 2008; ... 'A major blow to the democratic process in this country' Arye Carmon, president of the Israel Democracy Institute, seesthe Gaydamak phenomenon as a manifestation of a troubling erosion ofthe public's faith in politics To the consternation of political parties on the right and ...
Blood on their Hands 2
Feb 04, 2008; ... Blood on Their Hands 2 As negotiations for the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israelisoldier held by Hamas since June 2006, progress, two questionsarise: Should Israel free terrorists with blood on their hands?Should it ease the definition of blood on the hands to close a deal?My ...
A Scholar's Beginning
Feb 04, 2008; ... A Scholar's Beginnings The newly translated diaries of the young Gershom Scholem offer afascinating glimpse into his early intellectual and personaldevelopment in Berlin For those seeking a portrait of Berlin during the First WorldWar, the youthful diaries of Gershom Scholem, ...
Freewheeler
Feb 04, 2008; ... Freewheeler The young Jewish woman who defied convention in 1894 with arecord-making trip around the world by bicycle On a beautiful June day in 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky arrivedby horse-drawn carriage at the State House in Boston, where 500enthusiastic suffragists, ...
When Bush Comes to Shove
Feb 04, 2008; ... When Bush Comes to Shove U.S. President Bush flies in to inject a new sense of urgencyinto Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and to reassure Israel on theIranian nuclear threat For two hours after the other dinner guests had gone home, PrimeMinister Ehud Olmert, Defense ...
Of People and Numbers
Feb 04, 2008; ... Of People and Numbers Disagreement over census data has transformed the Falas Mora intoa punching bag swinging between Israel and the NGOs advocating ontheir behalf. Both sides seem more interested in debating numbersthan alleviating human suffering. It has been 17 years ...
Style and Substance
Feb 04, 2008 ... page [ 39][ ] author [Ralph Amelan][ ] section [Books][ ] title [Style and Substance][ ] Style and Substance A literary lawyer's reflections on Jews and jellyfish "I own to a tendency - one that I have, without success, tried toeradicate all ...
Letters
Feb 18, 2008 ... Mideast Benelux The strand of Palestinian strategic thinking that Ehud Ya'aridiscerns in his column "Another State" (Jan. 21) has a certainrationality behind it. A newly-created sovereign Palestinian statesitting alongside Israel would indeed struggle to reach viability,let alone ...
Cross-Cultural Connections ; An Ethiopian Jewish troupe takes root in the Israeli theatrical landscape
Feb 18, 2008; ... "The rulers shall ride cars, not horses. We'll burn the forest,cut the trees. We'll print newspapers every day. With pictures ofseductive girls, the world will judge our progress by the girls thatwin beauty contests. ... Who here can throw a cocktail party? Wemust reject the palm wine ...
Facing West, Turning South
Feb 18, 2008; ... One of the striking qualities of the Tabernacle, and later theTemple, was its geographical arrangement. One entered the Templefrom the east, and during worship, faced west. (Exodus 27:13-16.)This seems foreign to our own experience. After all, in "Fiddler onthe Roof," Tevye sings of a ...
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: From 'Cold' to 'Nervous'
Feb 18, 2008; ... Peace Relationships between Israel and Egypt are at a turning point: from a "cold peace," as the neighborly relationshave been defined since 1979, to what might now be called a "nervouspeace." The stability and constancy that characterized the "coldpeace" - no surprises, no particularly ...
Rooms With a View
Feb 18, 2008; ... A new Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem offers observant Jewsluxury, comfort and proximity to the Old City - in the middle of aPalestinian village The real estate pitch sketches a "Next Year inJerusalem" vision for the well-heeled: a gated community nestled ina bucolic hillside terrace ...
Take the Money and Run? A proposed bill to compensate West Bank settlers who agree to leave their homes voluntarily is provoking heated debate
Feb 18, 2008; ... A large, lemon-colored concrete structure resembling a paystation on a toll highway straddles the road between Qalqilya andNablus, where it intersects with Israel's security barrier on theWest Bank. Although it is located some 3 kilometers from the GreenLine, the "Eliyahu Crossing," ...
The Balance Sheet of Terror
Feb 18, 2008; ... "Help Wanted: Seeking suicide terrorists. No experiencenecessary. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a top-flight international terrorism organization looking to fillpositions left vacant after a series of successful operations.Applicants should be highly motivated and ...
MARKETPLACE: Black Monday
Feb 18, 2008; ... Monday, Monday, can't trust that day Monday, Monday, sometimes itjust turns out that way For observers of stock markets, The Mamasand the Papas' harmonious singing says it all. On Black Monday Oct. 29, 1929, the American stock market crashed,falling 13 per- cent. It did it again ...
Sarkozy's Honeymoon with France's Jews
Feb 18, 2008; ... "UNTIL NICOLAS Sarkozy took office, successive Frenchadministrations maintained a perfect attitude toward France's Jewishcommunity, while their attitude toward Israel was tainted withmisunderstandings. But since Sarkozy became president seven monthsago, we have an administration, which ...
Countdown for Olmert
Feb 18, 2008; ... With much of the Winograd Commission's report on the 2006 Lebanonwar focusing as expected on the last 60 hours of the fighting, thequestion the public, the politicians and the media were asking waswhether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to order the finallarge-scale ground ...
Dream Green Car
Feb 18, 2008; ... Shai Agassi hopes to place Israel in the forefront ofenvironmentally friendly transportation by making it the world's first true mass market for electric cars;If Shai Agassi's vision comes true, within a decade more than100,000 Israelis may be plugging their cars into electric ...
Making the Cut
Feb 18, 2008; ... With one film competing for an Oscar, and many others garneringprestigious prizes over the last year, Israeli cinema has come of age When the envelope is opened on February 24 and a Hollywood starannounces the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film, manyIsraelis will be ...
Facing West, Turning South
Feb 18, 2008; ... One of the striking qualities of the Tabernacle, and later theTemple, was its geographical arrangement. One entered the Templefrom the east, and during worship, faced west. (Exodus 27:13-16.)This seems foreign to our own experience. After all, in "Fiddler onthe Roof," Tevye sings of a ...
Samson In Chains
Feb 18, 2008; ... In this tightly written, erudite account of Jewish strategies ofsurvival in the face of gentile power, Ruth Wisse, a professor ofYiddish and comparative literature at Harvard University, traces theambivalent Jewish dialogue with authority in the Diaspora toIsrael's troubled relationship ...
Facing West, Turning South
Feb 18, 2008; ... One of the striking qualities of the Tabernacle, and later theTemple, was its geographical arrangement. One entered the Templefrom the east, and during worship, faced west. (Exodus 27:13-16.)This seems foreign to our own experience. After all, in "Fiddler onthe Roof," Tevye sings of a ...
The Sins of the Son
Feb 18, 2008; ... History may repeat itself and a Clinton White House could onceagain succeed a Bush presidency. Astonishingly, despite whatoccurred under William Jefferson Clinton - the Camp David fire saleand the blatant meddling in Israeli domestic politics - George W.Bush's recent visit to the Middle ...
Barack Obama and the Jews
Feb 18, 2008; ... Jews and blacks have a long history of both love and hate. It hasnot been a pretty story, at least not since the early days of thecivil rights movement, when Jewish civil rights activists Schwernerand Goodman were murdered in Mississippi and Heschel and otherrabbis marched with Martin ...
Arabs are being treated as if we were enemies of the State
Feb 18, 2008; ... 'Arabs are being treated as if we were enemies of the State' Attorney Ali Haider, co-executive director of Sikkuy, theAssociation for Advancing Civic Equality in Israel, warns aboutincreasing rage and alienation among Israel's Arabs In late January, Attorney General Menahem ...
Mideast Benelux
Feb 18, 2008; ... The strand of Palestinian strategic thinking that Ehud Ya'aridiscerns in his column "Another State" (Jan. 21) has a certainrationality behind it. A newly-created sovereign Palestinian statesitting alongside Israel would indeed struggle to reach viability,let alone prosperity. ...
"We need to understand that when Gaza is open to the other side we lose responsibility for it. So we want to disconnect from it."
Feb 18, 2008; ... "We need to understand that when Gaza is open to the other sidewe lose responsibility for it. So we want to disconnect from it."Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, on January 24, referring tothe breaking down of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt by Hamasmilitants. "We ...