complaining Archives – Jewish Journal

What’s All the Complaining About?

Mark Schiff March 13, 2019

But Who’s Complaining?

Rabbi Debra Orenstein July 27, 2007

Yes, there is something natural, human and probably inevitable about complaining. As the people who raised murmuring to a high art during the desert trek with Moses, Jews may have more precedent to complain than others. I once invented a game called \”alphabetical kvetch,\” and I have rarely had a problem getting Jews to play along.

Hancock Park Shul War Back in Court

Julie Gruenbaum Fax August 21, 2003

The rabbi of a small, embattled congregation is charging that anti-Semites and self-hating Jews are using zoning laws to get Orthodox Jews out of Hancock Park as an epic eight-year legal battle heads back to court.

Kids Page

Jewish Journal June 19, 2003

You know that harmless-looking body part inside your mouth? The tongue? It sure looks nice enough, but it gets a lot of Israelites into trouble in this week\’s parsha.

What’s the Beef?

Rabbi Elazar Muskin November 14, 2002

A number of years ago, during the O.J. Simpson trial, I had a conversation with a non-Jewish merchant who told me that right after Simpson was arrested, he met a good friend of Simpson\’s at church. At the conclusion of the service, the merchant happened to stand right behind this man as he thanked the minister for his homily and then asked him, \”Reverend, would you please pray for O.J.\”