A black Labrador retriever, proudly bearing Israeli and American flags, joined several dignitaries on stage this month to celebrate the first graduation exercise of Pups for Peace.
Sylvia Rouss, who teaches at Stephen S. Wise Temple, is the author of the popular \”Sammy Spider\” series, which are widely used in Jewish schools around the country.
Within the last few weeks, a number of developments have added strength and further scope to these programs.
\”Why do you Jews cheat so much?\”
Every week I go on two walks that I absolutely treasure. Each Sunday, my husband and I walk through a different section of Los Angeles. We have no destination, but our purpose is to exercise. We could choose other forms of exercise. We could be on a treadmill, moving in place without moving in space. Yet this is not as gratifying as walking outside. The walks along the beach or in the hills around the city create another dimension of being.
\”It\’s clobberin\’ time!\” used to be the Thing\’s catchphrase — but now he might be hollering, \”It\’s davenin\’ time!\”\n\nFour decades after his debut in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 1 (Vol. 1) — the comic book that single-handedly launched Marvel Comics — the craggy orange member of the eponymous superhero quartet has been revealed to be Jewish in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 56 (Vol. 3).
It was an ominous warning affixed to the plastic-covered condom, which was glued on a rust-colored postcard with pictures of dirty mattresses: \”Practice Safe Politics.\”
In a Sept. 11 New York Times Op-Ed piece by Thomas L. Friedman on the feelings of angst that linger a year after Sept. 11, 2001, the distinguished columnist reports that he turned to Rabbi Tzvi Marx, a teacher in the Netherlands. Here\’s what Marx told Friedman: "To some extent, we feel after Sept. 11 like we have experienced the flood of Noah — as if a flood has inundated our civilization and we are the survivors. What do we do the morning after?\”
While the diamond business is historically a Jewish industry, this fact is implied, but never stated, in the film.
Shop Israel L.A. co-chairs Sheila Spiwak and Adrian Miller and their circle of friends hatched the idea for the fundraiser, which will also support The Jewish Federation\’s Jews In Crisis fund.
