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non-jewish
Non-Jewish man returns chametz
Jewish Journal
April 28, 2011
A non-Jewish man who took possession of the chametz given to him by a haredi Orthodox community just before the start of Passover returned the goods shortly after the end of the holiday.
Bibi slams rabbis’ ban on renting to non-Jews
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blasted a ruling by dozens of Israel\’s municipal chief rabbis that forbids renting homes to gentiles, and more specifically to Arabs.
Jewish Money
Rob Eshman
December 24, 2008
If you scroll through the list of Madoff\’s philanthropic victims, you\’ll find plenty of evidence that even Jews who have shed every vestige of their ancient practice short of circumcision still resonate to the prophetic call to heal the wider world.
Q&A with showbiz power broker Irv Weintraub: Why doesn’t Hollywood give Jewish?
Danielle Berrin
July 17, 2008
\” . . . We have one thing that\’s not happening now that happened then, which was the memory of the Holocaust. We are 50-plus years removed. The urgency that existed then doesn\’t exist today. The Federation campaign did better with Lou Wasserman — people didn\’t tell him no. There isn\’t that iconic person like Lou who is willing to be identified publicly with their Judaism . . .\”
Non-Jews Provide Key Community Support
David Finnigan
January 1, 2004
They are security guards, schoolteachers, cooks and banquet hall waiters. They are waitresses, agency and museum executives and walkie-talkie-toting synagogue maintenance workers. There are hundreds of non-Jewish support staff at synagogues and other Jewish institutions throughout Southern California, and they are integral to the life of the Jewish community.
\”Amazing, amazing people,\” said Conservative Rabbi Mark Diamond, executive director of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. \”I don\’t think our Jewish institutions could function properly without the efforts of our non-Jewish support staff and even sometimes senior staff.\”
A Love Like Mime
Mark Miller
October 9, 2003
In my San Francisco days, I once had a brief romantic affair with a mime. I was living in a house with lots of bedrooms, which were rented out to many different people. One of them was her, Angie, a young woman who each day would leave the house, go down to the park and do her mime thing, collecting dollars in a hat. I would tease her and we would flirt.
Righteous Rescuers Honored
Susanna Crosby Perrin
May 17, 2001
Though certainly one of the most bitter memories of history, the Holocaust was also a time of true heroism and great humanity. On Sun., May 6, Mt. Sinai Memorial Park in Simi Valley dedicated a grove of trees to the non-Jewish heroes who risked their lives to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Lidia Furmanski of Pasadena, a rescuer from Poland, and Bert Lerno of Simi Valley, a Jewish Dane who was rescued, were guests of honor at the dedication ceremony.
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