\”This is an amazing book,\” said my friend Lynn, solemnly handing me my birthday present, a paperback she handled as though it were the Holy Grail. \”But rip off the cover right away.\”
Hundreds of Israeli children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs every week, and 13-year-old Asher Gorsky did not want to be an exception.
Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to get married to the perfect guy, have a family and live happily ever after.
Being Jewish is to be bombarded by time-by seasons, weeks, history.
The tale of an orphan\’s search for acceptance. A lawyer\’s fantasy of a Holocaust survivor\’s revenge. A book that may save your marriage. These are just a few of the interesting choices made for this year\’s People of the Book Festival.
The mutt was shivering with fever, his nose bleeding from a beating he had received from some bad men. \”But there was something that drew me to him, a kind of human gaze in the eyes,\” says the author of 15 books and films such as \”Smoke\” and \”Lulu on the Bridge.\”
It seems that Dawn Farber thought of everything when she designed and stocked this new, two-story playhouse for Temple Isaiah\’s preschool.
Here\’s a roundup of classes and activities for children of all ages.
Today, the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy has more than 3,500 participants, including doctors and teachers, teenagers and retirees who volunteer to tutor one child at least one hour per week. The program has reconnected assimilated Jews to the Jewish community and Jewish suburbanites to the inner-city.
There was a time when news of the high school massacre in Littleton, Colo., would have struck Israelis as incomprehensible, evidence of some strange, alien disease floating around America, to which Israel was certainly immune.
Not anymore.
