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perception
Alternate perceptions and #TheDress
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2015
At the end of February, I encountered #TheDress, the week’s highest trending hashtag on Twitter.
Bob Saget: Clean-cut and filthy (uncensored version)
Naomi Pfefferman
August 14, 2008
\” . . . Bob is particularly funny because he has this dual, schizophrenic reputation from the G-rated family shows to the X-rated stand-up show . . .\”
Israel faces challenges on three fronts
Sergio DellaPergola
May 16, 2008
Israel at 60 faces three major challenges: identity, technology and politics. The future Israel will have to strive and struggle to maintain a credible role as the cultural and spiritual center of Jewish peoplehood. Demography will continue to play a fundamental role here, but the main challenge will be whether Israel can strengthen internal and transnational Jewish cultural bonds to preserve some consensus among the Jewish people.
Paris and Rosie
Rob Eshman
June 15, 2007
Jews bemoan the lack of context, the one-sidedness, the over-simplification and the focus on blood and gore that marks quite a bit of the media coverage of Israel. And the Muslims? To them, the media paints all Muslims as terrorists, offers superficial understanding of Islam and focuses on violence over culture and accomplishment.
City Voice: We’re not who we think we are
Bill Boyarsky
March 9, 2007
There is a preconceived notion about the Los Angeles Jewish community being affluent, increasingly conservative and preoccupied with Israel to the exclusion of other issues.
Attention Israelis: Please stop kvetching
Larry Derfner
March 2, 2007
Could it be that Israelis just need to kvetch about whoever\’s in the headlines?
But what about Azerbaijan?
Rob Eshman
February 23, 2007
Iraq is a mess, a cauldron of intra-Islamic conflict. Afghanistan is heading down the same tragic path, as the Taliban assert greater fundamentalist control. All those Muslims are nuts, right?\n\nThen there\’s Azerbaijan.
10 Ideas For Creating Meaningful Volunteer Assignments
Susan J. Ellis
July 27, 2006
Any organization\’s program and operational decisions should stem from the philosophy, beliefs and vision that are its reasons for being in the first place. These basic values, however, are often assumed, yet rarely articulated.
It May Be Time to Change Goals, Ideas on Philanthropy
Michael Steinhardt
July 27, 2006
We are donors to universities, museums, orchestras and hospitals, but when it comes to Jewish philanthropy, we fall short. Today, perhaps 20 percent or less of Jewish giving goes to Jewish causes.
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