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Highlights from 1992
A remarkable transformation brings Israel and China from an icy standoff to the brink of diplomatic relations
Russia's ultra-nationalist tells the Jews to keep quiet
With U.S. loan guarantees in doubt, and funds needed urgently to finance large-scale immigration, the process of privatizing many of the 161 government- owned companies is finally gathering momentum
With a spurt of new films and the opening of a major studio, Israel's struggling film industry is going for broke this spring.
A year after Operation Solomon, Israel's Ethiopian immigrants are mired in difficulties. They have faced isolated incidents of racism, but these pale in comparison with housing and job problems, and what they
America's Renaissance man now has his own symphony orchestra to play with, but even his friends are wondering if the brilliant educator has a lesson to learn about the limits of achievement
The financial earthquake that is tumbling Olympia & York's real- estate empire is also sending tremors through philanthropies around the world and particularly in Toronto
Yitzhak Rabin is out to put the record straight, to assuage the sense of personal injustice he has carried since giving up the premiership 15 years ago.
What would Sigmund Freud have called the family of a man ho has fathered, by an unknown number of women, a legendary number of children, two of whom have written novels entitled `Sexual Intercourse' and `Hideous Kinky'?
Members of South Africa's well-to-do but dwindling Jewish community, anxious about surging violence and an uncertain political future, are debating whether to become involved in the country's struggle for democratic renewal or to emigrate and start over
Crown Prince Hassan Bin Talal, the younger brother of King Hussein, is, as the cliche has it, a heartbeat away from the throne.
The pioneers' vision of Israel foresaw thriving cities, small towns and verdant rural settlements. But the cities are taking over, and the Israel of 2010 may well be woefully short of open green space. Urban sprawl is threatening to devour the country's landscape.
Scheduling a match in Yugoslavia, of all places, is just one of the astonishing elements in the story of a chess champion's long-awaited comeback.
The person who held the key to this past year's political revolution in Israel is a 72-year-old rabbi with a grudge. Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and of tens of thousands of non-Orthodox Sephardim, defied Ashkenazi rabbis and paved the way for an era of change.
The mountains around the West Bank city of Jenin hide scores of Black Panthers, Palestinian youths who rule by the gun and cast a worrying shadow over the peace process. A rendezvous in the last bastion of the armed struggle.
With one in two U.S. Jews marrying out and Jewish organizations struggling with falling membership, the crisis in the community seems to be deepening. But as Jewish leaders convening in New York prepare to debate the issue, an alternative thesis has taken shape: that American Jewry is not dying out, but simply transforming itself. Is American Jewry disappearing?
An investigation by The Jerusalem Report has confirmed disturbing allegations about major flaws in the kashrut system.
Zohar Argov, like Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, was a pop-martyr cut down in his prime by drugs. But a new play called `The King' shows that his struggle to be accepted as a Sephardi artist by the Ashkenazi cultural elite was a musical-tragedy with a uniquely Israeli twist.
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