Yosef Israel Abramowitz

Israel Policy of Imprisoning Refugees Being Challenged

Published on April 5, 2007

Israeli activists and lawmakers are challenging in court the current policy of incarcerating Sudanese refugees who illegally enter the country under a law dealing with "enemy nationals" that allows them to be detained indefinitely.

From Darfur to Israel: A Family’s Perilous Exodus

Published on April 5, 2007

A Troubled Exodus

Published on April 5, 2007

With two miles of bare footprints behind them, Ahmed and Fatima and their three children approached the border with Israel in the middle of a cold winter night. Snow was falling in the Sinai.

Anti-Semitism Finds Fertile Soil in Russia

Published on September 30, 2004

Last week, Russian president Vladimir Putin sought to consolidate his long, successful and bloodless search for centralized authoritarian rule by proposing to cancel citizens' right to elect their local and regional officials, nominally as a countermeasure to terrorism -- a dangerous as well as counterproductive move.

Madonna, Motherhood and Judaism

Published on November 20, 1997

Dear Madonna:
Is it possible that I saw you at Sinai? The Jewish mysticaltradition, which you have been exploring, teaches that the souls ofall Jews for all generations -- including converts to Judaism --stood at Mount Sinai when our covenant with God was affirmed. Couldthe Jewish soul of Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone be trapped in thebody of a rebellious Catholic?