Issue Number 20 Volume 48

JERUSALEM—Thanks to a booming economy and progress against terror, Israel is poised at last to grapple with nagging social issues that it previously could do little more about than sweep under

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Three and a half months after fundamentalists swept to power in the Palestinian elections, the Islamist Hamas and the secular Fatah are on the brink of a major showdown that cou

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A former Nazi rose to the highest ranks of a Western intelligence agency—and was a Soviet mole. A lead to Adolf Eichmann was ignored.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—With Israel's coalition government already shaky, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been busy enlisting foreign support for his West Bank withdrawal plan.

At the beginning of his career in Jewish leadership, Rabbi Chayim Mishulovin said he feels fortunate to be one of the leaders selected to participate in the Portland Jewish Leadership Institute.

The founding rabbi of the South Metro Jewish Congregation and an active bridge builder in Portland's Jewish community, Rabbi Larry Halpern will retire later this month and make aliyah to his new

Have you feasted your eyes on the cover of this month's "Bon App?tit" magazine?

At least four proposals regarding last year's national Green Party Resolution 190 calling for divestment in Israel will be on the agenda when the Pacific Green Party of Oregon holds its nominatin

Taking the initiative through profiling, building a security fence, targeted assassination of terrorists and being a presence in the West Bank has made Israel a safer place, according to Israel Defen

Former Muslim Nonie Darwish spoke about "Challenging a Culture of Hatred" at Portland State University's Multicultural Center, May 23.

Israel has brought more than 75,000 Ethiopians to Israel in the past three decades—the only time black Africans have been taken out of Africa for freedom, not for slavery, Micah Feldman told P

During their mission to Israel, 33 Oregonians visited the Neve Michael Youth Village, which provides a home for some 250 at-risk Israeli youth, and delivered two donations to support further the vill

I was surprised and pleased recently when Yotam, my 6-year-old grandson, was able to identify David Ben-Gurion, after whom his school is named, as Israel's first prime minister.

Tradition—both religious and familial—prompted two Sunset High School students to don their tefillin and tallitot and talk to their schoolmates about Judaism one recent afternoon.

Portland writer and historian Harry H. Stein will discuss his new biography of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gus J.

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Filmmakers are wrestling with four different projects to document or dramatize the story of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded by Islamic extremists in Pa

At the June 1 study sessions following a Shavuot service at Congregation Neveh Shalom, about 40 people gave opinions, bantered, veered away from the topics and ate cheese cake.

NEWTON, Mass (JTA)—Anita Diamant, a Jewish educator and best-selling author of "The Red Tent," remembers going to Boston's Orthodox mikvah, or ritual bath, years ago for her husba