Reiterates ‘unshakable bond’ with Israel amid calls for calm.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, wants Israel to prove its commitment to peace. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government already has. getty images
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer
After a week of harsh U.S. criticism over what it saw as an Israeli “insult” to Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama administration toned down the rhetoric Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed suggestions that there was a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations.
“We have an absolute commitment to Israel’s security,” she told reporters in Washington. “We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel and between the American and Israeli people who share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world.” - Read Story -
Sixty years after the rabbi’s death, a novel thought to be ‘too hot to handle’ for its tale of the Prophet Hosea and his prostitute wife, is published.
Rabbi Steinberg at work. Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove offers a reader’s guide to “The Prophet’s Wife” on page 17.
by Ari L. Goldman Special To The Jewish Week
When Rabbi Milton Steinberg died suddenly and tragically in 1950 at the age of 46, there was a keen awareness that the Jewish community had lost one of its great literary, intellectual and spiritual voices. Steinberg was a preacher of uncommon eloquence and depth, a literary craftsman of prodigious output, and a scholar at home with both rabbinic and classic literature. - Read Story -
Sara Hurwitz, the woman of the hour at this year’s international conference of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA), revealed here on Sunday that she is considering relinquishing her controversial and unique new title of “rabba.”
After reflecting on the pros and cons of such an act with her audience in an address to the opening plenary, she said her congregation, the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (HIR), has begun to review the situation to see if the title proves to be a help or hindrance to her in her work with congregants.- Read Story -
The game last month featured a pair of teams with losing records and sorry recent histories, but the seats behind one of the baskets at Madison Square Garden was crowded with scores of flag-waving, photo-snapping fans nearly two hours before tip-off between the New York Knicks and the visiting Sacramento Kings.- Read Story -
Remember “The Poseidon Adventure,” the melodramatic 1972 film about a group of desperate passengers aboard an aging, ill-fated luxury liner about to sink?
The long-forgotten plot of the movie came to me when, in a discussion the other day, I described Israel’s latest diplomatic crisis as “The Joe Biden Adventure.” Unfortunately, the similarities extend beyond the sound of the phrase.- Read Story -
