Sorority Hopes to Join AEPhi Family
Lauren Korduner
May 6, 2004
I\’m sitting in Gina\’s Pizza, the local hotspot for members of UC Irvine\’s Greeks.
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Orange County
Walking the Walk for Heritage Pointe
Andrea Adelson
May 6, 2004
Setting a contemporary example for the ancient value of "l\’dor v\’dor" (from generation to generation), supporters of Heritage Pointe will walk through Irvine May 31 in a communitywide 5K walk to raise money for the county\’s only Jewish retirement home.
Music Makes the Service Go ‘Round
Andrea Adelson
May 6, 2004
Since distributing a CD of hymns to members of Tustin\’s Congregation B\’nai Israel, the Conservative synagogue\’s cantor, Marcia Tilchin, and congregant Carl Cedar, a veteran musician, no longer sing alone in the sparsely filled sanctuary on Friday night.
Israel Fete to Focus on Music, Culture
Andrea Adelson
May 6, 2004
Israeli entertainers often get a jumpstart on a civilian career following military service, which they spend polishing their act at morale-boosting performances for the armed forces.
Trial of King David Sabotages Lessons
Rabbi David Eliezrie
May 6, 2004
I chose not to attend Tarbut\’s trial of King David. Billed as \”the people against King David,\” it promised to be a trial that was \”3,000 years in the making.\”
Shavuot: A Link to God
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
May 6, 2004
"Why is the festival of Shavuot called \’The time of the giving of our Torah\’ and not the time of the receiving of our Torah? Because the giving of the Torah happened at one specified time, but the receiving of the Torah happens at every time and in every generation. — Rabbi Meir Alter of Ger"
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Busy Days, Busy Nights
Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark
May 6, 2004
April 19: This morning at 10 a.m. air raid sirens blared. No, it was not a terrorist attack but the commemoration of Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Ugandan Jews Keep the Faith in Isolation
Naomi Pfefferman
May 6, 2004
In the documentary, "Moving Heaven and Earth," an American Jew describes spying an African, Gershom Sizomu, amid the white expatriates in a Nairobi synagogue in the 1990s."
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