Issue Number 4 Volume 49

JERUSALEM (JTA) In Israel, many see North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship and the West's response to it as a dress rehearsal for a threat far closer to home.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A top staffer for billionaire philanthropist George Soros has met recently with senior representatives of the dovish pro-Israel community to discuss setting up an alternative t

The Community Relations Committee and the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland recently voted to oppose Oregon ballot measures 41 and 48.

Last January when playwright Wendy Wasserstein died of lymphoma at age 55 in New York, Profile Theatre Artistic Director Jane Unger here in Portland was looking for a playwright to feature in their u

There has been little if any love lost between Jews and the late Leni Riefenstahl.

Portland writer Jan Baross' first novel, "Jose Builds a Woman," which was announced here at the time of its initial release earlier this year, is a timeless, lusty paean to love in many

When he was secretary of state, Colin Powell once called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "the greatest and most successful alliance in history." It's hard to argue with that desc

One evening last month, as I was flipping through the TV channels with my remote, I came upon a 15-minute interview with an unabashed Holocaust denier.

Tzvi Herskowitz's day job is in international public relations for an Israeli organization called the Aleh Association.

AMMAN, Jordan (JTA)—Near the Shariah Islamic law department at the University of Jordan, there is a blue Star of David spray-painted on a concrete path between the pine trees.

AMMAN, Jordan (JTA)—It is one the great unanswered questions in the Middle East today: How will a country of some 6 million people, facing external threats from troublemaking neighbors and inte

AMMAN, Jordan—It's another hot, sunny day here, but the people plowing through the crowded shopping district at Al-Wehdat don't seem to notice.