fbpx

Keeping up: Ronald Reagan foundation, Walk to end genocide, Yom Hashoah, It takes a woman fundraiser

Mort Zuckerman, chairman/editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, tours The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library prior to speaking as part of the Center for Public Affairs Reagan Forum Series on April 13. Photo courtesy The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation
[additional-authors]
April 29, 2010
Jewish World Watch drew more than 2,500 people to its fourth annual Walk to End Genocide on April 18. The two-mile walk around Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills raised $175,000 for the people of Darfur, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mort Zuckerman, chairman/editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, tours The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library prior to speaking as part of the Center for Public Affairs Reagan Forum Series on April 13. Photo courtesy The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

Dale Surowitz, right, chief executive of Providence Tarzana Medical Center, watches as Rabbi Yanky Kahn, from Chabad of the Valley, affixes the Catholic hospital’s first mezuzah to the auditorium doorway on March 19.

Participants recite prayers during the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day service at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Simi Valley on April 11. Photo by Joseph A. Garcia/Ventura County Star

The New Community Jewish High School Israel Advocacy Club, pictured with faculty adviser Daphna Maor, sponsored a Yom HaAtzmaut celebration in memory of Tal Kehrmann, who was killed by a suicide bomber in 2003.

Did you enjoy this article?
You'll love our roundtable.

Editor's Picks

Latest Articles

Post-Passover Pasta and Pizza

What carbs do you miss the most during Passover? Do you go for the sweet stuff, like cookies and cakes, or heartier items like breads and pasta?

Freedom, This Year

There is something deeply cyclical about Judaism and our holidays. We return to the same story—the same words, the same questions—but we are not the same people telling it. And that changes everything.

A Diary Amidst Division and the Fight for Freedom

Emma’s diary represents testimony of an America, and an American Jewish community, torn asunder during America’s strenuous effort to manifest its founding ideal of the equality of all people who were created in the image of God.

More than Names

On Yom HaShoah, we speak of six million who were murdered. But I also remember the nine million who lived. Nine million Jews who got up every morning, took their children to school, and strove every day to survive, because they believed in life.

Gratitude

Gratitude is greatly emphasized in much of Jewish observance, from blessings before and after meals, the celebration of holidays such as Passover, a festival that celebrates liberation from slavery, and in the psalms.

Freedom’s Unfinished Journey

The seder table itself is a model of radical welcome: we are told explicitly to invite the stranger, to make room for those who ask questions and for those who do not yet know how to ask.

Thoughts on Security

For students at Jewish schools, armed guards, security gates, and ID checks are now woven into the rhythm of daily life.

Can Playgrounds Defeat Antisemitism?

The playground in Jerusalem didn’t stop antisemitism, and renovating playgrounds in New York City is not likely to stop it there, either — because antisemitism in America today is not rooted in a lack of slides or swings.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.