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Highlights from 1999
Behind 'The Prince of Egypt,' DreamWorks' hugely hyped challenge to Disney, is a tale of bitter rivalry between two Hollywood princes who once were allies
In a lush valley beneath an extinct volcano in northern Iran, groundbreaking British archaeologist David Rohl claims to have found the site described in Genesis as Eden. And while there's no shortage of skeptics, several leading experts are more than intrigued.
Down through the decades, Israel came to depend increasingly on its remarkable strategic alliance with King Hussein. But now Jordan is entering a period of change and, potentially, instability. No wonder all Israeli eyes are on King Abdullah II.
Israel is producing poor children at a higher rate than ever before. And no one in a position to help seems to care enough to do so. What's critically needed, activists say, is a radical revamp of national priorities.
Maybe Yehudi Menuhin angered so many Jews and Israelis because he acted naively, or maybe they just didn't understand what he was saying
In Shas's Israel, Aryeh Deri is a hero, not a sinner. The Orthodox, Sephardi judge who convicted him is a court Jew. And the decadent Ashkenazi ruling elite will eventually be swept aside by the honest, God-fearing masses.
For 111 Albanian refugees, coming to Israel was a case of any port in a storm. For Israel, taking them in was a symbolic gesture of the salvation that the world failed to offer the Jews six decades ago.
The first synagogue in the Americas - opened in Recife, Brazil, in 1640, but abandoned 14 years later - has been reopened as a center of Jewish studies.
The approval of a new tradition-minded set of guiding principles by Reform Jewry's rabbinical wing in Pittsburgh in late May is being hailed by leaders of the movement as a profound shift in its thinking and practice. But some Reform rabbis think the changes are too radical, while others believe they don't go far enough.
Tommy Lapid emerged from the Budapest ghetto in 1945 convinced of two things: the Jews must have a state, and they must always support each other. Now, as the only uncompromising opposition to ultra-Orthodox power, Lapid says he's battling to save the state he loves from a fundamentalist takeover. But his critics accuse him of fomenting hatred among Jews.
Though not all the legends about the late Moroccan king's affinity toward Jews were true, his warmth was genuine
The Israeli government has initiated the compilation of a register of assets, lost when Jews left Arab countries 50 years ago, to use for offsetting Palestinian refugee compensation claims. But Sephardi activists charge that this is immoral and underhanded - citing Holocaust restitution to back up their claim - and warn of an explosive backlash if an equitable solution is not found.
Anger, shock and resignation are the main emotions among Vienna's 7,000 Jews following the October 3 electoral success of Joerg Haider' far-right Freedom Party.
Now that the international media has reported on their arrival in Israel, immigrants from Cuba hope that they'll get some publicity for their grievances here
British politicians were as intrigued as British Jews by former chief rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, who died in London on October 31 at the age of 78.
Twenty-one Israeli women have been murdered in the past 18 months by men who claimed to love them, and tens of thousands have been battered. In a climate now clearly conducive to domestic violence, experts cite regional machismo, chauvinistic cultural norms and educational failures, but can't really pinpoint the problem. And while politicians profess their horror, they're not providing the money to fund solutions.
Life is harsh for the Jews of a war-ravaged Caucasian republic, but the last few hundred are hanging in
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