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Obama — who won 78% of Jewish vote — faces global disarray, Mideast challenges
Ron Kampeas, JTA
November 5, 2008
Barack Obama\’s Jewish backers argue that he will boost effortss to pressure Iran and advance Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Detractors, on the other hand, have predicted that Obama could end up pressuring Israel and backing away from confrontation with Iran.
Jacob’s Ladders
David Suissa
March 8, 2007
This week, Jacob is doing research on the Internet for a little dvar Torah he\’ll be giving at the Etta Israel Shabbaton at Beth Jacob Congregation. Etta Israel is the popular local organization that caters to kids with Down syndrome and other special needs, and it\’s where Jacob studied Judaism every Sunday for seven years.
Noteworthy sessions and events at the G.A.
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2006
Noteworthy sessions and events at the General Assembly
The Best Offense Is a Funny Movie
Tom Tugend
August 31, 2006
According to advance hints, the film is guaranteed to enrage Jews, gays, blacks, women, cowboys, Christians and college boys — not to mention Kazakhstanis.
Who Are You?
Rabbi Perry Netter
December 29, 2005
Even in the best of families, relationships are enormously complicated. Some of the stories rabbis hear, all too frequently, of families in crisis are excruciatingly painful: parents who disown their children because of radical disappointment with the life choices their children have made; siblings who refuse to be in the same room with each other because their anger is irreconcilable; courts clogged with family members fighting over contested wills, and so forth. The possibilities for family chaos are almost endless. When things go wrong, they often go very wrong.
Does Autism Offer Special Gifts?
Illana Katz
May 26, 2005
\”Identify yourself,\” Seth says when meeting someone new.
To Live and Teach in L.A.: A Difficult Job
Sarah Price Brown
December 23, 2004
Eight-year-old Danielle dashes to the front of her third-grade classroom and shows off her drawing of an equilateral triangle.
Two Women Rabbis Will Fill Pulpits
Andrea Adelson
July 1, 2004
Apart from the 175 member families she served at Anchorage\’s Congregation Beth Sholom, Rabbi Johanna Hershenson found little other Jewish life. As the only non-Orthodox rabbi in Alaska, she became a long-distance consultant to lay synagogue leaders in even more isolated areas, such as Homer and Fairbanks.
Tourist Trap
Rabbi Ron Shulman
June 26, 2003
Summer is often a season of travel and vacation. Whether travel is a part of our plans for this summer, most of us have had the experience of being a tourist.
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