Alternative Scene
Steve Getzug
October 26, 2000
The Shabbat morning services last Saturday were wonderful.
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Out and Proud
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
September 28, 2000
For some prospective rabbis, the greatest challenge is getting into rabbinical school. For Benay Lappe, the challenge was getting out, coming out and being out.
Finally, A Women’s Yeshiva in L.A.
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 7, 2000
Have you ever really studied Torah? Really studying means you take one verse, one legal phrase, even one word, and look up every commentary on it, and then the commentaries on the commentaries, and then you and the medieval and contemporary sages work together to dissect and extrapolate and interpolate until that one word yields a bounty of wisdom that leads to a stunning insight that gives you a spiritual boost like no other.
Collective Wisdom
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
August 31, 2000
From personal to political, low-key to bombastic, a sampling of the Jewish wisdom rabbis will be imparting during the High Holy Days was on display Aug. 22 at Stephen S. Wise Temple.
Crown Jewel
Michael Aushenker
August 31, 2000
Settling with a cup of coffee into the comfortable armchair in his new office, Rabbi Mark Diamond might need to get used to doing a lot more sitting.
Summer of Shame
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
August 17, 2000
A lot of people have a lot of questions about the scandal involving the Orthodox Union and Rabbi Baruch Lanner.
Best & Worst of Times
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
July 13, 2000
It\’s been a month of extremes for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) on the West Coast. As the Orthodox youth group basks in the joy of moving into its own building, it is also reeling from the shock of a scandal involving an East Coast regional director allegedly abusing teens.
A Place for Teens, Torah and Hanging Out
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
July 13, 2000
While the adults are talking up the \”sense of permanence\” and \”central address,\” Miriam Segura has a simpler way of expressing the significance of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth\’s (NCSY) new building – hanging out.
Chances for Peace
Michelle K. Wolf
April 13, 2000
Signing a framework for a peace agreement with the Palestinians by the end of May will help Israel to reshape the strategic equation in the Middle East, according to Israel\’s deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh, who briefed 250 delegates and guests at the recent Labor Zionist Alliance biennial convention.
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