Highlights from 1994

• Death Threat to Rabin Among U.S. Jewry's Peace Hate Mail
  It's no secret that some American Jews aren't very happy about the Israel-PLO agreement. But none of the Israeli government's supporters were prepared for the deluge of Jewish hate mail they've been receiving lately.
  
• The Wedding Banned
  Tens of thousands of Russian immigrants, Jewish enough to get into Israel, are finding out that they're not Jewish enough to get married here
  
• Once a Jew?
  The 10,000-strong Muhamreh clan in the West Bank village of Yata cannot shake off the legend of their supposed Jewish roots
  
• Do the Right Thing
  In the tense age of Farrakhan, Laurence Thomas is a black Jew who's taken on the tricky task of comparing the Holocaust and slavery
  
• Workers Coming
  In the wake of its decision to close off the territories from Israel for the foreseeable future, the cabinet on April 10 approved bringing 18,000 foreign workers into Israel.
  
• The Jews Who Slipped Off the Magic Carpet
  A charismatic, pistol-packing Yemenite leader has reopened the 40-year-old mystery of the `disappeared' immigrant children
  
• Palestinian Affairs
  They may not be the fittest or the best dressed of forces, but members of the Al-Aqsa brigade who came from Iraq to police Jericho are receiving a hero's welcome
  
• Jews in Cyberspace
  In an alternate universe of computers and modems, Jews all over the world are chatting, debating and fighting. The fast-growing Internet computer network has made geographical distance irrelevant, linking Jews in a high-tech global shtetl.
  
• Oh, What a Lovely Peace!
  As King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin draw the spotlight in Washington, two Jordanian comedians take to the Amman stage with their own quirky version of peacemaking
  
• Iran's Use of Terror To Blackmail The West
  In exchange for immunity from Iranian terror operations on their soil, several European nations have rescheduled Iran's debts, boosted trade with Teheran and even released Iranian murder suspects. The Jerusalem Report reveals the astounding story of Iran's international extortion racket.
  
• The Colonel's Lover Fights back
  The gay partner of a deceased army officer battles for the same rights as any grieving army widow
  
• The Great Land Sell-Off
  Until recently, much of central Israel was farmland. Now huge tracts of that land are being sold off for housing - to the delight of developers, cash-strapped farmers and the government, and to the dismay of some Zionist purists.
  
• The Ones Who Stayed Behind
  Syria's last Jews claim their rabbi has abandoned them by moving to Israel, but not many outside Syria are sympathetic
  
• Poet Revolutionary
  Yehuda Amichai is the unofficial poet laureate of a country known forits machismo, a warrior who could write a poem called `I want to die in my own bed'
  
• Heroes Under Attck
  On stage and screen, in the media and history books, the myths and heroes of Israel and Zionism are being criticized, attacked and reevaluated. Is this the healthy historical revisionism of a changing society, or a growing cynicism that is undermining the country's ideological foundations?
  

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