Recently added articles from Washington Jewish Week:
Bubble-up Judaism
Mar 05, 2009; ... Tradition sometimes follows a road less traveled On their second date, Mike Sloan told his wife-to-be, Maria, that he wanted their children to be raised Jewish. This came as a surprise to then-Catholic Maria, whose future husband, a Jew, had been raised in a household so devoid ...
Mishmash
Mar 05, 2009; ... Poppy's the pick Poppy is the favorite hamantashen filling among those who responded to WJW's survey. Thirty-six percent of respondents chose mat filling, also known as mun in Yiddish. Twenty-five percent went for prune filling, while 15 percent said their favorite was apricot. Just ...
'Change, conflict and crisis'
Mar 05, 2009; ... JCPA confronts surplus of global challenges For confirmation that these are indeed "interesting times," in the Confucian sense, consider the daunting agenda That confronted hundreds of Jewish activists who converged on Washington, D.C, beginning Saturday night. They grappled with ...
Debatable panel
Mar 05, 2009; ... Edwards sponsors community discussion on Israel, Gaza In planning a "community conversation on Gaza and Israel" last Thursday, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) said her main goal was to present "a group of people who represented a very moderate direction toward peace" Yet, according to ...
Erecting a living memorial
Mar 05, 2009; ... Jews, Catholics honor interfaith trailblazer In both words and plans for precedent-setting deeds, a group of Jewish and Catholic leaders paid tribute last week in Washington to a pioneer in interfaith relations. The words were spoken at a private memorial service for Rabbi Leon ...
Interfaith encounters of the rabbinic kind
Mar 05, 2009; ... Anyone who can get a radical Hamas fundamentalist and a hard-core Jewish setder to sit down and discuss religion - and actually enjoy it - might be worth listening to on the subject of Middle East peace. Yehuda Stolov is that man. Last week, the Orthodox rabbi from Jerusalem stopped in ...
In Focus: Eric Adler
Mar 05, 2009; ... Its a stereotype, maintains Bethesda's Eric Adler, that innercity youth do poorly at school because many come from broken homes or have families who don't care I about their education. It's also a talla-cy that the best way to help is by removing kids from the city's mean streets and sending ...
'I got this terrible sinking feeling,' says Madoff victim
Mar 05, 2009; ... There may be as many reactions to Bernard Madoff's scam as there are victims When Lewis Brodsky of Springfield was told that Madoff had just been arrested, "I got this terrible sinking feeling in the stomach, had a week's worth of depression and lost about 10 pounds," said Brodsky, who ...
E.U. lax in monitoring anti-Semitism, says report
Mar 05, 2009; ... Most European countries do not have official data on anti-Semitism, according to a new report has found. The report, released Monday by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, examined both official and unofficial data on antiSemitic incidents across 20 European countries from ...
Court date set for Halimi murderer
Mar 05, 2009; ... The gang leader accused of kidnapping and torturing to death a 23-yearold French Jew will be tried in a Paris court. Youssouf Fofana, 28, a Frenchman originally from the Ivory Coast and head of The Barbarians, the gang that kidnapped Ilan Halimi in Paris in 2006, will be tried with 27 ...
Vatican: Williamson apology not enough
Mar 05, 2009; ... The Vatican has dismissed as insufficient Richard Williamson's apology for his denial of the Holocaust. Williamson's apology for the furor his remarks caused "does not seem to respect the conditions" for readmission into the church as a clergyman, a Vatican spokesman said on Friday of ...
Rubashkin attorneys want charges dismissed
Mar 05, 2009; ... Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin, the ex-manager of a kosher slaughterhouse, want criminal charges against him dismissed, citing anti- Jewish bias. At a hearing last week in U.S. District Court in Iowa, attorneys for Rubashkin cited "flawed and biased" statements given by grand jury ...
Bomb damages Caracas synagogue
Mar 05, 2009; ... A Caracas synagogue has been damaged by a bomb. The homemade grenade, tossed late on Thursday of last week into the Orthodox Beit Shmuel synagogue, damaged windows and a car; no injuries were reported. It was the second such attack this year on a Jewish site in Caracas. Eleven ...
Clinton plans to send two high-level envoys to Syria
Mar 05, 2009; ... In a sign of an apparent thaw in U.S.Syrian relations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday during her trip to Israel that Washington would dispatch two senior U.S. diplomats to Damascus for "preliminary conversations" on bilateral and regional issues. "There are a number ...
Killer of Yemeni Jew deemed unfit for trial
Mar 05, 2009; ... A Yemeni court ruled Monday that a Muslim on trial for killing a Yemeni Jew is mentally incompetent and merely ordered him to pay a fine for the fatal shooting. The December slaying of Jewish teacher Moshe Yaish Nahari in Omran, north of the capital, San'a, raised fears of anti-Semitic ...
Lieberman and religious parties say they can agree
Mar 05, 2009; ... Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, met Monday with leaders of the Israel's religious parties to setde differences, and said afterward that "agreements can be reached," even on sensitive subjects, Ynet reported. They reportedly ...
Peace Now warns of new construction in West Bank
Mar 05, 2009; ... The Israeli government is planning to build at least 73,300 new housing units in the West Bank, according to a new report by the group Peace Now. Released Monday, the report said that at least 15,000 of the housing units already have been approved and the rest remain in the planning ...
Olmert expected to be indicted
Mar 05, 2009; ... Israel's attorney general has informed Ehud Olmert that he plans to indict him on fraud charges. Menahem Mazuz told the prime minister's attorney Sunday evening that he would file an indictment on charges that include fraud, breach of public trust and receiving illegal funds from ...
Jewish groups praise U.S. for pulling out of Durban
Mar 05, 2009; ... The Obama administration decided late Friday to boycott the so-called Durban II conference over antiSemitism concerns. Multiple Jewish sources on a conference call with the White House said that the Obama administration had opted not to attend any further preparatory meetings ahead of ...
Intelligence pick comes under scrutiny
Mar 05, 2009; ... Charles "Chas" Freeman's appoint- ment as chair of the National Intelligence Council has aroused con- cern among several Jewish organizations and nine members of Congress, most of whom are concerned over Freeman's financial ties to Saudi Arabia. Appointed late last week, Freeman, a ...