Bush: US Should Have Acted on Auschwitz
JERUSALEM — A teary-eyed President Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz on Friday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to
Herzl’s Grandson Buried in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Sixty years after jumping off a bridge to his death, the last descendant of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, was buried Wednesday in a Jerusalem cemetery
Child Holocaust Survivors Meet in Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) — In 1939, 5-year-old Erna Blitzer left France with her parents and older sister for a vacation to visit relatives in Poland. They never made it home.
She
Yad Vashem honors Czech ‘righteous tree’
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of trees line Yad Vashem’s Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, honoring the people who saved Jews during World War II. On Monday, Israel’s official
Cremation: Israel’s latest religious war
MOSHAV HIBAT ZION, Israel — The charred hut and blackened chimney are all that remain of what was one of Israel’s best-kept secrets.
It was the Jewish state’s first and
Israel’s Peer juggles army service with tennis stardom
TEL AVIV, Israel — Shahar Peer is wearing an olive green military uniform now, far removed from her star turn at the U.S. Open two weeks ago.
Peer, ranked No.
My Aunt Jeanette – The world’s oldest Rockette
Published in Fall 2007 edition of Guilt & Pleasure magazine.
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I remember visiting my
Israeli Police Bust Israeli Neo-Nazi Ring
JERUSALEM (AP) – Police said Sunday they have broken up a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis accused of a string of brutal racist and anti-Semitic attacks, videos of which were
The ‘Voice of Israel Baseball’
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) _ My first childhood dream was to be a major league baseball player. My second was to be a broadcast journalist.
It’s always good to have
Percentage of Israelis in Military Drops
JERUSALEM — A drop in the percentage of Israelis serving in the military has Israel’s leaders warning that the Jewish state is losing touch with its most admired institution.
“From
Holocaust Center Gets Kasztner’s Archive
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s official Holocaust memorial and museum has unveiled the private archives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era in an attempt to
Mob Wars Hit New Heights in Israel
JERUSALEM — When an explosion goes off on a busy Israeli street these days, it seems as likely to be a mob hit as a Palestinian attack.
Rival underworld gangs
Shimon Peres wins Israeli presidency
JERUSALEM — Shimon Peres helped build the Israeli army, repeatedly served as prime minister in difficult times and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts at ending the conflict
Hebron House Latest Flashpoint in City
HEBRON, West Bank — When 14 Jewish families moved into a Palestinian house in Hebron _ a sacred West Bank city and traditional burial site of biblical patriarch Abraham _
Polish Girl’s Holocaust Diary Unveiled
JERUSALEM (AP) — The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the “Polish Anne Frank,” was unveiled Monday by Israel’s Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager vividly