As the Israeli army mounted a major operation targeting Hamas and a suicide bombing rocked Haifa, the ability of Israel�s new, right-wing government to advance the peace process with the Palestinians has been questioned.
Sixty years ago, Bulgarians took steps to prevent 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from being sent to Nazi death camps. At the same time, Nazi-allied Bulgarians deported nearly all the Jews of Macedonia, and parts of Greece and Serbia. Ceremonies in Bulgaria and Mac
In what one arts advocate called the “ritual mating dance” that starts off months of fiscal back-and-forth, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has recommended slashing 6.2 percent from the Department of Cultural Affairs, a decrease that arts advocates calculate will translate into much larger cuts for some institutions and groups. Gov. George Pataki recently proposed slashing 15 […]
