Elaine Fletcher
Elaine Fletcher is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Elaine Fletcher
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish New Year Ushers in `Jubilee’ Dilemma for Israeli Farmers
By Elaine Fletcher — October 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service MOSHAV BEIT ZAYIT, Israel _ Young lettuce shoots are pushing up from pots in Eldad Avidar’s greenhouse, corn silks are turning dark on the stalk, and the fruit trees are heavy with big red pomegranates whose ripening signals the Jewish holiday season marked by Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succot. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Jewish New Year Ushers in `Jubilee’ Dilemma for Israeli Farmers
By Elaine Fletcher — October 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service MOSHAV BEIT ZAYIT, Israel _ Young lettuce shoots are pushing up from pots in Eldad Avidar’s greenhouse, corn silks are turning dark on the stalk, and the fruit trees are heavy with big red pomegranates whose ripening signals the Jewish holiday season marked by Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succot. […]
NEWS STORY: Pleas to End Palestinian-Jewish Violence Going Unheeded
By Elaine Fletcher — October 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ A few lone Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious and lay leaders on Monday (Oct. 2) made isolated calls for a halt to the Jewish-Arab violence that has wracked Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past five days. But the peace calls were largely drowned out by rounds […]
NEWS STORY: Pleas to End Palestinian-Jewish Violence Going Unheeded
By Elaine Fletcher — October 3, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ A few lone Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious and lay leaders on Monday (Oct. 2) made isolated calls for a halt to the Jewish-Arab violence that has wracked Israel and the Palestinian territories over the past five days. But the peace calls were largely drowned out by rounds […]
NEWS FEATURE: Historic Temple Mount at Heart of Peace Talks
By Elaine Fletcher — July 22, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ The gold-plated roof of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock blazes under the summer sun as Muslim worshippers gather for noontime prayer on a broad esplanade around the Islamic shrine, perched on a hill that dominates the skyline above Jerusalem’s Old City. A few dozen feet below the eighth […]
NEWS FEATURE: Historic Temple Mount at Heart of Peace Talks
By Elaine Fletcher — July 22, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ The gold-plated roof of Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock blazes under the summer sun as Muslim worshippers gather for noontime prayer on a broad esplanade around the Islamic shrine, perched on a hill that dominates the skyline above Jerusalem’s Old City. A few dozen feet below the eighth […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Rabbis’ Ban on the Internet Heeded _ Sometimes
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When the rebbe of the Hassidic Belz ultra-Orthodox sect recently ordered his followers to stop using the Internet as a leisure-time recreational outlet, Eliezer Ram took his brand new home computer out of the house and gave it away. “It was kind of tough to swallow,” recalled the […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Rabbis’ Ban on the Internet Heeded _ Sometimes
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When the rebbe of the Hassidic Belz ultra-Orthodox sect recently ordered his followers to stop using the Internet as a leisure-time recreational outlet, Eliezer Ram took his brand new home computer out of the house and gave it away. “It was kind of tough to swallow,” recalled the […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Military Service Separate Ultra-Orthodox, Secular Israelis
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When Prime Minister Ehud Barak campaigned for election last year, his slogan “One People, One Draft,” captured the imagination of secular Israelis embittered by the two-tiered military system in which nearly 70,000 ultra-Orthodox young men receive annual deferments for yeshiva study. This week, however, Barak was forced to […]
NEWS SIDEBAR: Military Service Separate Ultra-Orthodox, Secular Israelis
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ When Prime Minister Ehud Barak campaigned for election last year, his slogan “One People, One Draft,” captured the imagination of secular Israelis embittered by the two-tiered military system in which nearly 70,000 ultra-Orthodox young men receive annual deferments for yeshiva study. This week, however, Barak was forced to […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Technology Casting Its Spell On Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Sporting a long, reddish beard, black yarmulke and formal suit, Eliezer Ram would fit right into any one this city’s yeshivas, where hundreds of young and middle-aged ultra-Orthodox men like himself sit on hard, uncomfortable benches from morning until night _ studying and debating ancient Jewish legal texts. […]
NEWS FEATURE: New Technology Casting Its Spell On Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews
By Elaine Fletcher — July 7, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ Sporting a long, reddish beard, black yarmulke and formal suit, Eliezer Ram would fit right into any one this city’s yeshivas, where hundreds of young and middle-aged ultra-Orthodox men like himself sit on hard, uncomfortable benches from morning until night _ studying and debating ancient Jewish legal texts. […]
NEWS FEATURE: Papal Pilgrims From Lebanon Now Find Themselves Refugees
By Elaine Fletcher — June 2, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service SAFED, Israel _ Two months ago, a contingent of 1,000 south Lebanese Christians gathered to attend a huge outdoor Mass near this town overlooking the Sea of Galilee and to greet Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimage here. Little did they imagine that they would be returning so soon […]
NEWS FEATURE: Papal Pilgrims From Lebanon Now Find Themselves Refugees
By Elaine Fletcher — June 2, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service SAFED, Israel _ Two months ago, a contingent of 1,000 south Lebanese Christians gathered to attend a huge outdoor Mass near this town overlooking the Sea of Galilee and to greet Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimage here. Little did they imagine that they would be returning so soon […]
NEWS FEATURE: Pope Visits Controversial Site Some See As Place Jesus Was Baptized
By Elaine Fletcher — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service WADI AL KHARRAR, Jordan _ Against the backdrop of a biting desert sandstorm, Pope John Paul II Tuesday blessed the waters of a spring-fed tributary of the Jordan River in an area celebrated by early Christians, apparently as the site of Jesus’ baptism. The pope’s visit here, just prior to […]
