Issue Number 13 Volume 49

JERUSALEM (JTA)—No one expected this month's tripartite American-Israeli-Palestinian summit to make any startling breakthroughs. For days spokesmen for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had been lowering expectations.

Kenneth W. Stein, an Emory University professor who worked closely with former President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center, rejected many of the former president's allegations in the latter's recent controversial book before a packed house of 250 at Portland State University Feb. 20.

Thieves stole two key laptop computers from the offices of the Jewish Review in an apparent smash-and-grab burglary over the President's Day weekend.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Jewish organizations are seizing the opportunity of a winter of discontent to position themselves against Bush administration policies.

Sixty-five people listened to four lectures about Judaism and Islam by Reed College Judaic Studies Professor Steven Wasserstrom at the inaugural Weekend in Quest sponsored by Congregation Neveh Shalom and the Institute for Judaic Studies Feb. 9-11 in Astoria.

With the last shot of her collegiate basketball career, Wendy Gabbe reached the scoring plateau of 1,000 points for her University of California-Irvine squad.

Admittedly, I was quite skeptical when I first heard about Sulaiman Al Hamri, a young Palestinian from Bethlehem. But after listening to him address a mostly Jewish audience at Congregation Neveh Shalom earlier this month, I couldn't help but think: What would it take to produce more Sulaiman Al Hamris?

Dr. Moisey Wolf, a renowned psychiatrist, Yiddish scholar and writer, died in Portland on Feb. 14 at age 84.