Recently added articles from The Jerusalem Report:
Letters
Dec 07, 2009; ... Bright Justuce Your story on the Rivlin family, "An Israeli Dynasty" (November9), mentions that Eliezer Rivlin earned a master's degree fromTemple University School of Law. The report is understated. Justice Rivlin was a student of minein American Constitutional Law and ...
Flawed Forecasting
Dec 07, 2009; ... The first solid signs of world recovery from the worst globaleconomic crisis in decades are finally appearing in economic growthstatistics. It is still too early to begin celebrating (even if theU.S. Dow Jones stock index is back at the 10,000 level). Much hasbeen lost, growth is ...
14 Days
Dec 07, 2009; ... NETANYAHU WARNS: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned onNovember 15 that Israel might undertake its own unilateral moves inthe West Bank if the Palestinians make good on a threat tounilaterally declare statehood. ABBAS SAYS NO: Palestinian Authority President Mahmud ...
Revelry on Rivlin
Dec 07, 2009; ... The hip denizens of Tel Aviv like to call it "the city thatnever sleeps." But on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights,Jerusalem's not far behind, at least in a small section in theheart of the city near Zion Square known as Rivlin. The action is focused on a short alley called ...
It's 2 a.m. Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
Dec 07, 2009; ... Twenty-year-old Yitzhak Mor was given a military funeral inOctober; his throat had been cut one night in Jerusalem, wheresoldiers have often been targeted by knife-wielding Arabassailants. As this article went to press, his attacker was stillat large, believed to have fled the ...
Labor's Pains
Dec 07, 2009; ... In an overcrowded small hall in Tel Aviv, people stand to cheerthe entrance of Labor's newest Knesset Member Daniel Ben-Simon. Itis early November, and Labor rebels, after seven months ofinconsequential defiance of party leader Ehud Barak, are foundingthe "Democratic Platform," a ...
The Unquiet Graveyard
Dec 07, 2009; ... At noontime, in late October, a group of mourners follows thebody of Rabbi Itzhak Hevroni, revered head of the prestigiousHebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem, through the steep paths in the ancientcemetery on the Mount of Olives. Suddenly, they are pelted withstones and garbage. The ...
Palestinian Beatitude
Dec 07, 2009; ... The tiny Catholic community in Israel and the West Bank isquietly anticipating the beatification of one of its own, the firstsuch event ever to take place in the Holy Land. Mother Marie Alphonsine, born in Jerusalem in 1843, will bebeatified on November 22, in Nazareth, in a ...
Two States? Yawn
Dec 07, 2009; ... By threatening to resign, Palestinian Authority President MahmudAbbas tried to send an electric shock - or an SOS - with themessage: Act fast if you want a two-state solution or you may findyourselves without a partner. It didn't work. There is a paradox here: If the ...
Mr. Khatib Goes to Quebec
Dec 07, 2009; ... Mohammed Khatib, 35, a wiry, graying father of four, grew uppicking olives in the fields near his home in Bil'in, a West Bankvillage with a population of some 1,800, located hard against theGreen Line, the pre-1967 border with Israel. But now Khatib is on his way to Quebec to ...
Painting Memory
Dec 07, 2009; ... Her long, bright red hair loose against her heavy winter coat,Nastia Feigina, 16, sits on a bench in the dreary cold in Borisov,in central Belarus. The imposing red brick Russian Orthodox church,with its turquoise rooftops and skyward spires, is just behind her,but Feigina is ...
When Chutzpa Wins
Dec 07, 2009; ... In the early years of this decade, Intel faced a problem. Thecompany had built its commanding presence in the computer chipmarket by promising to double the processing, or "clock speed," ofits chips every two years. This paradigm, however, was about to hita wall, because it was ...
Can Israel Learn?
Dec 07, 2009; ... A circus, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is "a circularopen space at a street junction," derived from the Latin word forcircle. Some readers of The Report may have visited London's OxfordStreet shopping district and risked life and limb (and wallet)crossing Oxford ...
Ticker
Dec 07, 2009; ... * Siemens AG, Europe's largest engineering company, has agreedto buy Beit Shemesh-based Solel Solar Systems Ltd. for $418million. Solel develops and builds solar- thermal-power plants andmakes solar receivers, a main component for the facilities thatcollect sunlight with mirrors to ...
A Jaffa Tale
Dec 07, 2009; ... In a scene midway through the film "Ajami," Omar, an Arab Muslimin his early 20s, comes to the Jaffa home of Hadir, a ChristianArab girl with whom he is secretly carrying on a romanticrelationship. Hadir's father, Abu Elias, is Omar's boss. Both Hadirand Omar know that Abu Elias ...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex
Dec 07, 2009; ... The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism Edited by Danya Ruttenberg. New York University Press. 265 pages; $19.95 In her new book, Danya Ruttenberg gathers 18 essays that reflectthe vitality of Judaism's 21st century perspective on sex. Theresult is an anthology that, on the whole, ...
Putting the Pieces Together
Dec 07, 2009; ... The Puzzle King By Betsy Carter Algonquin Books 352 pages;$23.95 "The Puzzle King's" prologue and epilogue provide an extraordinary frame for Betsy Carter's third novel. In the prologue, dated 1936, we meet Flora Phelps, a splash of color andprosperity, in the American ...
Is J Street Helping Israel's Cause?
Dec 07, 2009; ... Although J Street, the left-wing American Jewish lobbying group,repeatedly stresses its "pro-Israel, pro- peace" identity, itcontinues to face allegations from the right that it doesn'tgenuinely support the Jewish state. The Washington-based Weekly Standard, for example, ...
Goldstone and the Jewish Left
Dec 07, 2009; ... When the U.S. House of Representatives considered Resolution 867"calling on the president and the secretary of state to opposeunequivocally any endorsement or further consideration" of the U.N.Human Rights Council's Goldstone Report, the left, includingelements of the Jewish left, ...
