Issue Number 22 Volume 49
U.S., Israel launch new peace drive
JERUSALEM (JTA)—After seven lean years in Israeli-Palestinian relations, Israel, the United States and moderate Palestinians are moving to create a new dynamic.
Ex-Portlander ordained as Reconstructionist rabbi
Former longtime Portlander Me'irah Iliinsky has graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa., with a master's degree in Hebrew letters and the title of rabbi.
Pianism Perfect
A friend once said that before she was accepted into a graduate program in music at Northwestern she was obliged, among other prerequisites to admission, to demonstrate at the piano that she could pl
Is two-state solution still viable?
For years the "two-state solution," envisioning Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace, has been the almost exclusive formula for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Bush plan draws support from centrist Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Bush's latest Middle East peace initiative earned the backing of the centrist pro-Israel establishment in about as much time as it takes to pronounce AIPAC, ADL a