Sunday\’s memorial for former Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird, who died last month at 63 from complications of breast cancer, was more than a final tragic good-bye to (in the words of Rabbi Leonard Beerman) a \”woman of valor,\” the first woman to serve on the California high court.
Children often are pestered by well-meaning adults. I remember as a child having my cheeks pinched, or, even worse, my ear lobe pulled by some sweet elderly lady. Recounting this experience at one of my evening classes, one student seriously asked me, \”Rabbi, did she pull down or pull up?\”
Is Judaism the next big trend to sweep American society? Is there a downside to this, and if not, why do some of us feel vaguely uneasy about this seeming infatuation with things Jewish on the part of non-Jews?
\”Don\’t wish for fish, fish for fish.\” These words of sage advice were taught to me by my Grandpa Manny. He was a man of action. He was filled with exuberance for life with a twinkle in his eye and a word of encouragement and inspiration for everyone.
When Rabbi Eric Yoffie and other Reform movement leaders walked through the doors of Walt Disney World\’s Dolphin Hotel about a week before Christmas last year, they were greeted by a garishly lit, outsized Christmas Tree and the sound of caroling.
David Glickman thought he had left Judaism far behind. He arrived in Maui in 1990 to research whales after studying psychology and animal behavior at the University of Hawaii (UH).
A new study of national Jewish population trends was completed recently at the University of Miami, by one of the nation\’s leading experts in Jewish demography, and it\’s a bombshell.
A bush that is on fire but doesn\’t burn is indeed a mysterious phenomenon. But arguably, there is a far more mysterious element in the story of God\’s commanding Moshe to go down to Egypt to the palace of Pharaoh.
A story is told of a man who came to his rabbi complaining of depression. His life lately seemed like an endless string of failures, disappointments and missed opportunities.
Heather Levy, l9, a merry, self-confident young woman from Silver Spring, Maryland, has dated primarily non-Jewish boys, and believes that religion should not get in the way of falling in love.
