Word: israel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...largest purveyor of rapid detox is the Center for the Investigation and Treatment of Addiction, which pioneered the technique and opened its first clinic in Israel in 1993. It has since expanded and changed hands several times, franchising clinics in several countries and treating thousands of addicts--to a drumbeat of criticism. The British medical journal Lancet, for one, has blasted CITA for exploiting "the hopes and fears of opioid addicts and their families [and] for making exaggerated claims...
RELIGIOUS UNREST IN ISRAEL...
Though there certainly may be areas of friction in Israel between some ardently observant Jews and some equally ardent secular Jews, as described in your article "The Religious Wars" [WORLD, May 11], most Jewish Israelis feel and act as a single people, a family united by its religious heritage, whether its members choose to observe its rules to a greater or lesser degree. The populace in Israel is not polarized, nor on the brink of a religious civil war. RABBI AVI SHAFRAN New York City
...religious Jews think they own Israel, despite the fact that it belongs to a secular government. Israel's Jews should live in peace with one another. RABBI SHIAH T. DIRECTOR New York City...
During World War II, all Jews were targeted for extermination by the Nazis. Whether one was Orthodox Jewish or not was irrelevant. From the ashes of the crematoriums a Jewish homeland was founded, a place where all Jews could feel safe and welcome. Today the destruction of Israel could come from within by those who feel more entitled to exist in the homeland because they feel more Jewish. How ironic! TONI MCCAULEY Middleburg...