FOR JEWS, THIS IS A BUSY TIME OF year. Less than a week after Passover ended, we observed Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. A week later, a celebration - Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, preceded the day before by Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers. A week after that comes Lag B'Omer, a joyous day when, tradition says, a plague against the students of Rabbi Akiva ended. Ten days later it's Yom Yerushalayim, celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 Six Day War. Then a week later it's Shavuot, celebrating the giving of the Torah. Don't forget, there's also Mother's Day on May 13, between Lag B'Omer and Yom Yerushalayim.
Tens of thousands of people marched in Tehran and other major Iranian cities Friday as demonstrators turned an annual anti-Israel event into a new protest against the Islamic government. Witnesses and videos posted on the Internet and broadcast by foreign television showed clashes between security forces and protesters chanting "No Gaza, no Lebanon: my life only for Iran" and "Death to the dictator.
NEVE ILAN, Israel - It's Death Day outside Jerusalem. Eran Levron is wearing his special outfit - a white, rhinestone- studded, high-collared suit that fits taut across his slight paunch. Three dozen people sit at tables in the '50s-themed diner whose walls are covered with 1,720 photos of Elvis Presley. Most depict the singer during his younger, thinner years.
WASHINGTON - Exasperated by stalled Middle East peace talks in a season of tumultuous change, President Barack Obama jolted close ally Israel Thursday by embracing the Palestinians' terms for drawing the borders of their new nation next door. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel rejected the idea as "indefensible" on the eve of his vital White House meeting with Obama. The U.S. president said that an independent Palestine should be based on 1967 borders - before the Six Day War in which Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - as adjusted by possible land swaps agreed upon by both sides. He said Israel can never live in true peace as a Jewish state if it insists on "permanent occupation.
JERUSALEM - As the Crusaders marched to the Holy Land eight centuries ago, they chanted "Hep! Hep!" The battle cry - a Latin abbreviation for Hierosolyma est perdita ("Jerusalem is lost") - launched a thousand pogroms. That dismal prognosis was brought home to me a couple of days prior to Jerusalem Day, in a beautiful wedding held at the Goldman Promenade alongside the United Nations Jerusalem headquarters in the post- 1967 east Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood of Armon ha-Natziv. One of the biggest Jewish housing projects in Arab east Jerusalem today is Maaleh Hazeitim, facing the Mount of Olives cemetery and Mount Moriah, and located within Ras al-'Amud.
JERUSALEM - Israeli police discovered the body of an American woman, hands bound and full of stab wounds, in a rugged forest outside Jerusalem Sunday, a day after a friend said Arab assailants attacked the pair during a hike in the hills. The friend, who suffered light wounds but managed to escape, said one of the two attackers approached them with what looked like a long bread knife and carefully removed her Star of David necklace before stabbing her where it had hung.
This was a bleak year for anyone who dreams of Middle East peace or Arab-Jewish coexistence. So, on Christmas Day, I'd like to write about an institution in Jerusalem that brings Christians, Jews, and Muslims together, and about its director, who has bridged divides that seem insurmountable.
Why no mention of Jesus in story about Christmas? A Dec. 8 story in NeXt provided a valuable service to the non- Jewish community with an extensive explanation of the Festival of Lights (Hanukkah). The symbols, traditions and holidays of Judaism were given a brief and clear description. The origin of Hanukkah was detailed as the Maccabean revolt against an unjust tyrant with the subsequent rededication of the Jerusalem Temple, accompanied by the miraculous burning of the one-day supply of oil that lasted for eight days. The graphics included a depiction of a young boy in solemn prayer.
JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a new wave of rockets that landed deep inside Israel Thursday, defying Israeli retaliatory attacks and threats. As the violence threatened to escalate the day after a deadly Jerusalem bombing, Israel got a boost from the visiting U.S. defense chief, who said no country could tolerate the "repugnant" attacks on its soil.
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police stormed a disputed holy site Monday, hurling stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian worshippers who stoned police and Jewish visitors. The confrontation erupted as Israel marked "Jerusalem Day," the anniversary, according to the Jewish calendar, of its capture of traditionally Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The disputed site, the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, is in east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as a future capital.
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