Notes from a visit with a senior class: After seeing friends and peers smoking marijuana and using other drugs , students at Shalhevet High School didn\’t wait for their parents or teachers to educate them about the harmful effects of narcotics. Instead, they undertook the challenge themselves. \”We were obligated…. Something had to be done,\” said Brian Orgen, president of this year\’s graduating class.
Joel Grishaver. The Bible is rich in stories of passion, plagues, miracles and betrayals, but what about good parenting? \”In truth, there is no good fathering in the Bible,\” said author and Jewish educator Joel Grishaver.
The ad, which pictures a small child with a worried expression, is one way the UJF is trying to tackle the unfolding \”Who is a Jew?\” debate in Israel and to limit its impact among American donors to the UJF.
Converts to Judaism can now find each other — and counsel from several rabbis — on line.
If you didn\’t know that David Rose was one of our priceless assets, proceed to his pen and ink drawings on exhibit at the University of Judaism\’s Platt Gallery. A look at this lively body of work suggests that virtually everywhere 20th-century Jewish history was being made, David Rose was there.
When Mendel Moscowitz is transported from Brooklyn to ancient Egypt, the juxtaposition of a whiny New Yorker on the eve of the Exodus is supposed to create the setting for campy high jinks and musical hilarity.
Like the uneven romantic fortunes of a veteran dater, \”Sex\” plays like a series of disparate encounters that range from memorable to better-off-forgotten.
