In Israel, if the year 5764 could be summed up in one word, it would be disengagement. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan redefined the international agenda on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A highlight of a new Jewish Museum in the Dominican Republic is video testimony from a dwindling group of European Jews rescued from Hitler by the Dominican dictator Gen. Rafael Trujillo.
Turkish Jewry is struggling to keep alive the haunting melodies of the Maftirim, a 300-year-old collection of Hebrew devotional poems set to intricate Turkish classical music.
