Ghana’s plight motivates rabbinical students
Jewish Journal
June 5, 2008
\”Africa isn\’t something far awayand distant anymore. It\’s something very personal, and it\’s somethingthat you can\’t avoid.\”
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L.A. boasts record turnout at AIPAC
Danielle Berrin
June 3, 2008
\”I don\’t think L.A. gets enough credit for its political activism,\” said Michael Tuchin, 43, incoming president of University Synagogue and an avid AIPAC supporter since he was a student at Stanford University
Finding Judaism in the great outdoors
Sue Fishkoff
June 3, 2008
Two rabbis are helping Jews find a path to Judaism off the beaten track. Each has written a new guidebook to take along on that hike
Condi to AIPAC: There must be a Palestinian state
Jewish Journal
June 3, 2008
Condoleezza Rice at an AIPAC conference stressed the urgency of establishing a Palestinian state
You want a peace of the Zohan?
Tom Tugend
June 3, 2008
The creative team behind \”Don\’t Mess With the Zohan\” insists that there is a somewhat serious message of coexistence to be gleaned from the Adam Sandler send-up about an Israeli commando-turned-New York hairstylist
Conservatives adopt ruling on living wage
Ben Harris
June 3, 2008
Just days after the Conservative movement became the only Jewish denomination to speak out against alleged worker abuse at the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States, the movement\’s legal authorities voted to recommend that Jewish businesses pay their employees a living wage.
‘Wagging’: My Story as Gay Jewish Male
Eric Gordon
May 11, 2006
A couple of years ago, I heard about an oral history project for older gay men and women that resulted in a staged play. I didn\’t see it, but when Bob Baker, the adapter-director, sent out the call for a new cast, I signed up. We listened to each other\’s stories, wrote up the most telling ones and turned remembered conversations into dialogue. After nine months, out came a play.
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