Munich massacre survivor still carries Olympic scars
Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and four others escaped.
Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and four others escaped.
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black sub-Saharan rabbi ordained at an American rabbinical school, has had a very busy time since returning to Uganda in June, after not having lived there for five years.
Whether it is the imprint of the Israel Defense Forces\’ unit cohesion, the Jewish sense of a shared destiny or the remnants of a socialist system, Israelis strongly — and genuinely — care about each other. It\’s simply lovely to know there is always someone who\’ll be there to help you out and that you\’re never truly alone
Teachers and administrators from Jewish preschools in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Israel traveled to Italy to learn about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education
The San Francisco museum is most similar to The Jewish Museum in New York in terms of focus, scale and public programming. But while the latter is a collecting institution that interprets the history of world Jewry, San Francisco\’s museum offers what director Connie Wolf described as \”a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and history.\”
\”We want people to ask questions — what does \’contemporary\’ mean?\”
— Connie Wolf, Executive Director, Contemporary Jewish Museum
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
It was 1985, and many of the Ethiopian Jews who\’d been airlifted from Sudan were being housed in a hotel in Netanya, Israel. When writer Sonia Levitin entered the temporary nursery, she was particularly struck by all the babies and toddlers who\’d been born since their families had arrived.
The Governator\’s proposed education budget is inadequate
Covering a meeting of Friends of Sabeel is a strange experience. \”Strange\” as in walking through the looking glass and encountering a reverse universe on the other side.