In Whose Interest?
Osias Goren
June 8, 2000
In the 1920\’s and 1930\’s, many people purchased life insurance policies as a primary means of achieving future financial security for their families.
Category
Opinion
Promoting Holocaust Denial
Michael Berenbaum
June 1, 2000
There is an eerie consistency to the mishandling of the David Irving story in the Los Angeles Times, which again on May 30, as on January 7, allowed itself to be used as a propaganda instrument for Holocaust denial.
Memories of Summer Camp
Gene Lichtenstein
June 1, 2000
Deep down I knew that I had begun, quite consciously, the difficult task of becoming my own person, and wanted time and space in which to sort things out. At camp, without much effort, I had that chance.
Are Jews Right ?
Gregory Smith
June 1, 2000
My son Gershom just graduated from Brandeis University, and my wife and I traveled 3,500 miles, of course, to hear his address, as class speaker, to a throng in excess of 5,000 people. (He received a standing ovation.)
Don’t Judge a Book
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2000
My story is not really unique. The Jewish community is made up of many families with non-Jewish partners and relatives who support and nurture Judaism in their homes for the sake of their children.
Memories of Summer Camp
Gene Lichtenstein
May 25, 2000
My first and only experience at summer camp was magical, or so it seemed to me. I entered a world I had never known before, and by summer\’s end had gained some recognition into who I was and who I was not. No mean feat at 13.
Reform Needs Standards
Dennis Prager
May 25, 2000
The Reform rabbis\’ recent resolution on same-gender officiation affirms two mutually contradictory actions: It supports any Reform rabbi who wishes to perform a same-sex ritual, including, though not so specified, marriage; and it supports any Reform rabbi who refuses to perform same-sex rituals.In an important way, there is nothing new in this resolution. A Reform rabbi could always have performed a same-sex commitment service. Nothing in Reform Judaism would have prevented Reform rabbis from doing so 10, 20, or 50 years ago, because there are no religious standards in Reform Judaism (this is not criticism, it is description). Reform rabbis can do anything they want ritually. So a Reform Jew can celebrate Shabbat on Tuesday. Indeed, for decades many Reform synagogues held Shabbat services on Sundays.
The New Jewish State
Gene Lichtenstein
May 18, 2000
I have been reading a fascinating book, \”The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel\’s Soul,\”\”that has set me to thinking about Jewish identity — both in Israel and in the United States.
Remembering Melanie
Herb Gelfand
May 18, 2000
There is a grimy Arabic sign high on the wall of the imposing new building rising on a rocky, ragged hillside in the West Bank village of Abu Dis.
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