Israel film academy favors women’s themes
Tom Tugend
October 7, 2014
The Israel Academy of Film has picked the country’s best movies of the year, and the winner is the female sensibility.
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Sukkot, rain and Andy Lipkis’ vision for L.A.’s salvation from the drought
Jared Sichel
October 7, 2014
On the afternoon of Oct. 16, the final day of Sukkot, Jews will begin the annual practice of inserting a short but key line into the Amidah prayer: Mashiv haruach u morid hageshem: “Who causes the wind to blow and the rain to fall.”
Gardeners discover bag of ISIS flags in northern Israel
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2014
Gardeners in the Israeli city of Nazareth Illit discovered a bag containing about 25 ISIS flags.
Living with birth and death in the balance
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2014
This summer did not turn out like I imagined it would. I know that life rarely does.
American fighter joins Kurds in battle against Islamic State
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2014
After months in which the United States and European countries issued warnings about their citizens traveling to Syria fight on behalf of Islamic State, there are new reports of Westerners going to fight on the other side, against the militants.
Survivor: Sally Zielinksi Roisman
Jane Ulman
October 7, 2014
Sally Roisman — at the time Sara Pola Zielinksi — was asleep in a bed she shared with her mother and two sisters in the Sosnowiec ghetto when she was suddenly awakened by loud pounding on the door.
A rare and peaceful ‘Eid Kippur’ in Israel
Simone Wilson
October 7, 2014
This year, for the first time since 1981, the Jews’ biggest fast overlapped with one of Islam’s biggest feasts.
The true value of Birthright Israel
Jewish Journal
October 7, 2014
Sitting in a circle in coastal northern Israel, listening to a group of 46 American and Israeli Jews share their coming-out stories — stories of anxiety and relief, shame and pride, heartbreak and celebration — I realized that this trip was going to be different.
Should I talk to my enemies?
David Suissa
October 7, 2014
As I went through the long, exhausting prayers of Yom Kippur this year, reading a litany of sins, both personal and communal, and asking God for forgiveness, I occasionally reflected on the emotional reaction to my column last week about my debate with Israel bashers at a church in Culver City.
The man with the mustache, the Sukkah, and Israelis’ emigration to Berlin
Shmuel Rosner
October 7, 2014
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