Laurence Tisch, who died in New York at age 80 after a 15-month battle with cancer, is being remembered as a self-made billionaire and philanthropist, a family man and communal leader in the Jewish community.
In a stunning reversal, the Ford Foundation has admitted it erred in funding anti-Israeli Palestinian groups and promised to establish tough new guidelines to stop its funds from being used for anti-Semitic action anywhere in the world.
Omar Sharif, promoting "Monsieur Ibrahim," in which he plays an elderly Muslim who befriends an abandoned Jewish boy in Paris, talks about Jewish-Muslim encounters ranging from his screen kiss with Barbra Streisand to the current gloomy state of
