In 1990, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox met and fell in love with a black man, a bass player who performed in a blues band with one of her friends.
This column is directed to a real-life young woman I\’ll call Heather, who\’s enrolled in the conversion program at the University of Judaism.
The number \”three\” doesn\’t play an especially important part in Jewish lore and customs. But the pre-High Holy Day musical rush brought to my desk several trios of related recordings, so it\’s fitting to deal with them in groups of threes.
Fresh out of seminary, Rabbi Naomi Levy gave High Holiday sermons the way she thought they were supposed to sound — formal, ponderous, laced with phrases such as \”my dear friends.\”
After a summer marred by anti-Semitic violence, Jewish lobbyists are vowing to push lawmakers to enact stricter laws to combat hate crimes and control guns.
The only thing Jerusalem\’s Jewish and Arab shopping malls had in common when news broke last Friday of the Wye II deal was that no one was dancing in the streets. There was relief that something at last was about to move on the Israeli-Palestinian front, but it takes more than Madeleine Albright playing what she fetchingly called an American \”handmaiden\” to disperse the suspicions of half a century.
The nightmares have plagued Dr. Sigi Ziering since the Holocaust.
Hundreds of strictly Orthodox Jews took to the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y., this week to protest the fatal shooting by police officers of an emotionally disturbed member of the community.
A reputed gangster who calls himself \”a simple Jew from Kiev\” has emerged as the central suspect in an international bank-fraud probe that investigators term the biggest money-laundering case in history.
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