07th of February 2012 / Serving Oregon & Southwest Washington since 1959

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.  read more »

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.  read more »

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  read more »

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.  read more »

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  read more »

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