Canadian government helps fund kosher food safety
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2011
Canada\’s federal government will help fund the safety of kosher food products.
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Leisure
Spend Shabbat with the senator
Jonathan Kirsch
November 9, 2011
A joke was told about U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman during the 2000 presidential campaign. Not only was Lieberman the first Jew to run for vice president, but he was a famously observant one. “If you elect Joe Lieberman,” the joke went, “he will be on the job 24/6.”
Three women ‘On Holy Ground’
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2011
Stephanie Liss is an award-winning writer whose research has taken her to Bosnia, the Congo, Lebanon, Israel and even to undercover encounters with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat and Hamas.
Getting to know the homeless
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2011
When first meeting Rachel Fleischer, her innocent, girl-next-door appearance may lead you to wonder why this nice Jewish girl from a good home would spend her weekends among the indigent population of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The reason can be found in the young director’s documentary film, “Without a Home,” which follows the anguished lives of the homeless and confronts many preconceived notions about them.
Exploring the mitzvah of social action
Jonathan Kirsch
November 4, 2011
Among the gifts of the Jews, to use Thomas Cahill’s flattering phrase, perhaps none is more stirring and enduring than the biblical call to social justice. We are reminded of the Jewish injunction to seek justice in a couple of new books from Jewish Lights, each of which shows us how do more than pay lip service to one of the bedrock principles of Judaism.
Martin Fletcher’s ‘List’ offers hope amidst tragedy
Jewish Journal
November 4, 2011
Martin Fletcher may already be familiar to you from his long career as a television news correspondent. Or you may recall that Fletcher is the author of two books of nonfiction: “Breaking News” (2008) and “Walking Israel” (2010), which won the National Jewish Book Award. Last month saw the release of “The List” (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin\’s Press, $25.99), marking Fletcher\’s entry into the ranks of professional novelists, too.
Shimon Peres remembers Ben-Gurion
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2011
The overly creased and still tender face of Shimon Peres looks like he has always been crying; he seems to carry centuries of Jewish suffering upon his strong shoulders. Still, there is some flicker of hope in the old man’s eyes; a stubbornness and a determination that his life’s work will mean something.
With ‘New Soul,’ a new beginning
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
Yael Naim might need to have her head checked out. Take her word for it.
Late to shul, on time for kiddush
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2011
My friend and I go to the same synagogue but almost never run into each other. “How come?” I was musing the other day.
Trick or tweet: Anthony Weiner and Bernie Madoff Halloween masks
Jewish Journal
October 31, 2011
Are Halloween masks of Jews in the news a trick or just a new treatment?
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