As told in the biblical Book of Esther, the Purim story recounts how Haman, the chief minister to King Ahasuerus, plotted to destroy the Jews of Persia. In Shushan, capital of Persia, Haman cast lots (purim) that fixed the date of the Jews\’ doom to 13 Adar.
As a set photographer, Morris Kagan has shot some of the most recognizable stars in the world.
The sign to the left, posted by Israeli Jewish and Arab students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology around the elite Rehovot campus, reads: \”We, the Arab and Jewish students of the Technion, who daily sit together in the same classrooms in cooperation and friendship, express our pain over the recent outbreaks of violence in our country. It is up to us to continue living here in mutual dignity, peace and security. We call on every Technion student to speak out against violence, and on every citizen to work on behalf of good neighborly relations.\”
My daughter is beginning to get her hands into everything. She began crawling at 10 months, but didn\’t quite understand the power of her freedom.
Jacques van Dam drove up from La Costa last Thursday morning to hear it first-hand: Dutch Jews who spent all or part of World War II in the Netherlands are eligible for compensation and may now apply for further restitution.
A film on the Nazi-era rescue of refugee children, most of them Jewish, has been nominated for an Oscar in the documentary feature category.
Women always have been the private voice of Yiddish, which is, after all, called the mameloshn (mother tongue).
The words we find in this week\’s parasha have undoubtedly influenced more individuals in the Western world than any other in the entire Torah.
Everybody wants to talk to Randall Kaplan, co-founder of Internet-content software company Akamai Technologies and founder of the investment network Jump Investors.
\nIn our Jan. 26 issue, veteran screenwriter Henry Bean told The Journal he wasn\’t sure his provocative directorial debut, \”The Believer,\” inspired by the true story of a Jewish Nazi, would be well-received at Sundance. He\’d heard that distributors were wary of the controversial subject matter. So he was shocked last week when his film won the festival\’s Grand Jury Prize, the top award in the dramatic competition — prompting serious discussions with potential distributors. Now that \”The Believer\” seems poised to have an audience, at least with the art-house crowd, Bean has a particular group of viewers in mind. \”There is no audience I\’d rather show this to than one of anti-Semites and neo-Nazis,\” he told The Journal. \”I\’d love to know what they think.\”
