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Yom Hashoah 1999

Humor and Survival: Ha'aretz: Holocaust center set to release teen's 'fairy tale' diary

Remembering the Gray: Clearing the names of the Judenrat (Ha'aretz)

Sunday, April 11, 1999

Likud Loves Russia? Jerusalem Post: PM, Sharon deny wooing Russia as election ploy -- attempts to strengthen relations with Russia at this point were not conceived as a way to garner support from the Russian immigrant community in Israel, they say. Hirsh Goodman asks: Can it be that this government is dumb enough to believe we should be developing Russia as a strategic alternative to the United States?

Jews in the Bullseye: JTA e-mails the Jews of Yugoslavia

Everybody Wants to be Johnny Pollard: Marilyn Henry: Jewish CIA lawyer to sue agency for antisemitism

Friday, April 9, 1999

Jewish Fiction: Salon reviews Signs and Wonders, by Melvin Jules Bukiet. "Basically, I believe, but I don't like the Deity," this former literary editor of the Jewish magazine Tikkun has said. "I think the Deity has unilaterally violated the covenant by killing 'the chosen people' time and again ... I think he doesn't like us." Salon calls the novel "both thrilling reading and deeply intelligent commentary."

Thursday, April 8, 1999

Rallying for Refugees (1) Writing in Salon, J.J. Goldberg reports how American and Israeli Jews are split over the crisis in Kosovo.

From the White House to Capitol Hill to various NATO capitals, officials reported this week being stunned by the speed and passion of the American Jewish response to the Kosovo crisis. "They just came forward," said a White House official. "All the major Jewish groups spoke out. We didn't even have to orchestrate it. It was very important." But while diplomats and policymakers were praising the work of American Jews this week, the officials were more critical of Israel's ambivalent position. The Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu, while sending a large refugee aid mission to Macedonia, has maintained a studied neutrality between the Serbs and their ethnic Albanian victims. Beneath the neutrality, key Netanyahu allies -- beginning with Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon -- were openly backing the Serbs this month.

Rallying for Refugees (2): The Jerusalem Post reports that over 30,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv's Kikar Rabin last night for a benefit concert to aid Moslem refugees who fled Kosovo.

"We cannot remain silent. We are all human beings. We have one Father," said Chief Rabbi Meir Lau. As of yesterday, the Jewish Agency reported that over NIS 2.5 million, 1,500 blankets, and 1,500 sleeping bags have been donated by the Israeli public.

So that's how Bibi stopped bombings: Peace progress leads to more terror is the conclusion Ha'aretz reports of a report prepared by the State Prosecutor's Office and the Shin Bet security service. This hardly original piece of thinking -- attempts by terrorists to derail peace were expected in the immediate wake of the Oslo Accords -- was prepared in January but not yet released. Maybe because they echo what Rabin and Peres said in the wake of the bombings: "These horrendous attacks are, ironically, a direct result of the advances in the peace process that terrorist organizations hope to stop with their actions." If terror has declined under Bibi, maybe it's because peace has too.

Election Updates:: Ha'aretz: Uri Zohar to produce election ads for Shas and United Torah Judaism, Jerusalem Post: Ministry to probe rally for direct Shas link

No Lip Service: Temple Mount Faithful conduct Pessah 'sacrifice' (Jerusalem Post)

Community News: Salon buys The Well

Monopoly Watch: Microsoft innovates the most devious market killer since Windows (Infoworld)

Annals of Orthodoxy: Witness for a persecution: When two members of a wealthy Sephardi synagogue began investigating their rabbi's credentials, they were stunned to find themselves under a death sentence issued by the chief rabbi of Jerusalem. Din rodef, it seems, did not just disappear after November 1995. Ha'aretz,

Monday, April 5, 1999

Back in the saddle? I'm sure that's what Pharoah thought on the fifth day of Passover. Two days later, he discovered that he was in well over his head. So I'm not going to get too smug about returning to my keyboard.

Preisand Prejudice: Marilyn Henry catches up on the state of women rabbis, 1999.

Life in these Monotheistic Sects: Moslems attack Christians celebrating Easter in Nazareth

Bye Bye Ba-Gad: Rabbi Yosef Ba-Gad can't run for Knesset. He claimed the petition signatures he lacked were "stolen"; the Central Election Commission declared those he presented "forged." (Ha'aretz)

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