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November 2001

MOSCOW, Sept. 9 (JTA) — When Israel’s then-prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, visited Moscow in 1994, he was widely booed by a group of Russian Jews who considered him a traitor for signing peace accords with the Palestinians. The protesters even tried to hurl rotten tomatoes at Rabin. But when current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon entered […]

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A wooden Torah pointer that survived a fire is a mystery to Michal Friedlander. She may never know the entire story of how this delicate object escaped the destruction of the synagogue where it was used. “Objects tell stories,” said Friedlander, the Judai

President Bush´s faith-based initiative may be alive and well, but direct government funding for religious groups seems to be dying a slow death.

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