Reframing Resilience: Our Scars and Our Struggle Make Us Stronger
Lisa Ellen Niver
September 10, 2021
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struggle
Tough neighborhoods, hard times feed cycle of poverty
Dina Kraft
March 8, 2007
Anti-poverty activists and residents say the situation of many towns like Shechunat Hatikvah is the result of decades of government neglect and poor planning — places seen as dumping grounds where immigrants were settled in demographically strategic locations but far from job opportunities.
PBS: ‘Los Angeles — Dream of A Different City’
Jewish Journal Staff
January 11, 2007
The segment begins with host Jimmy Smits providing a quick overview of a familiar litany of problems besetting Los Angeles. There are traffic-choked interchanges, vast tracts of unchecked development, a trickle of water to slake a thirsty city and brownish air.
Victory of a Blessing
Rabbi David Baron
December 14, 2006
As life would have it, the term of tranquility is short, but we can emerge from these times strengthened both physically and spiritually.
Mayor implores people of faith to fight homelessness
Naomi Glauberman
December 7, 2006
\”Homelessness is curable and we must cure it,\” Leo Baeck Senior Rabbi Kenneth Chasen said in his welcoming remarks. \”Jews know too well the experience of being strangers and outsiders. We have lived in countless places where there were no homes for us.\”
Life More Ordinary
Rabbi Lisa Edwards
April 27, 2006
In this week\’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzorah (Leviticus 13, in particular), God instructs Moses and Aaron on the role of priests when people take ill.
I Love You, Carnivore
Rabbi Jonathan Klein
March 2, 2006
My act of civil disobedience — refusing to consume the flesh of once-living, breathing animals — has virtually no effect, perhaps none whatsoever. Agribusiness decides far in advance how many cows to raise and then slaughter without regard to my individual case.
Russian City Gets New JCC
Yasha Levine
January 19, 2006
Anatoly Obermeister, president of the construction and development firm ASTRA, plans to offer the ground floor — about 6,000 square feet — of a new housing project in the center of town for use as a Jewish community center that could include a restaurant, clinic, school and other social services.
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