U.S. Jews who had decided to brave the risk of terror by joining a United Jewish Communities’ Solidarity mission to Israel during the current Palestinian uprising never expected that their trip would take them out of harm’s way at home.
BERLIN, Sept. 10 (JTA) Joseph Lautmann remembers the first Jewish museum in this city, opened by the Jewish community in 1933 and closed by the Nazis five years later. It was right in his own neighborhood, “the Scheunenviertel, where every house had Jews in it,” said Lautmann, 85, who escaped Nazi Germany for Palestine […]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (JTA) American Jewish leaders are lobbying against a possible meeting late this month between President Bush and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. Media reports this weekend indicated that the White House is considering arranging a meeting between Bush and Arafat to coincide with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in […]
