Lucky Lindy, unlucky Jews
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By any standard Philip Roth is a major American writer. His 26 previous books have won a Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Awards, a National Medal of the Arts and a Gold Medal in Fiction, a PEN/Faulkner Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award.
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The Knicks were an unmitigated mess. Then they were brilliant. If only the two were reversed, the home crowdÂs anger, frustration and ultimate disappointment might have been eased.
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The New York Public Library's handsome show of Jewish history includes unusual materials from disparate places with finely detailed, often playful commentary.
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Â·  Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote Â·  Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds
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G. Willi-Food is an import company with one problem: It serves war-torn Israel.
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Israelâs kibbutzim are once again thriving, attracting new members with a mellower version of collective living.
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By GERRY CALLAHAN  There is, of course, no telling how the Ping-Pong balls will bounce come lottery day, but something unusual happened to the Boston Celtics last year. They got lucky.
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When Miriam Schmetterling left Poland in 1946, she had no idea if she would ever see her home country again or meet the people who saved her life during the Holocaust.
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Jewish law dictates, &quot;Do not rejoice when your enemies fall.&quot; (Proverbs 24:17) There will be no dancing in the streets of Jerusalem celebrating the fall of Yasser Arafat.
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By Tim Bragg, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 26--Memorial Day weekend hasn't been a fun one for the last couple of years at Lindy's Landing.
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Looking to make a start? Boy, are you in luck.
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When the notices went up in Kiev ordering the Jews to gather on the corner of Melnyka and Dokterivska streets by 8 a.m., they assumed the Nazis were shipping them to a ghetto. Some even arrived early for a good seat on the train. There were no trains. What met the Jews that morning was death in a ravine called Babi Yar.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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Oddly enough, good news can be bad, and vice versa.
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Gaza is a small place, and news spread quickly Wednesday that the border fence was knocked down before dawn. Pretty soon, I was caught up in a traffic jam as people raced to Rafah in buses, cars, motorcycles. Some even rode bicycles and donkey carts.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Never have so many of us appeared so well-off yet felt so poor - and we used to believe obscene wealth was victimless.
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Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis