Kenneth Bob, a software executive from Long Island,N.Y., is registered to vote in this month\’s World Zionist Congresselections, but he\’s having a hard time deciding how to cast hisballot.
\”We are dwindling,\” says the 1939 Club\’s Fred Diament.\n\n\”We are afraid of what will happen when we are no longer around tokeep the memory alive,\” says the Lodzer Organization of California\’sKal Berson.\n\nThe aging Holocaust survivors are speaking not only of fellowsurvivors but also of their respective clubs, which were formed inthe 1950s by émigrés who had lost everything to Hitler.
Project 9865, named after the 18-year-old oil derrick\’s OlympicBoulevard address, has several interwoven artistic, social and evenpolitical components.
There has been tremendous pressure to lash out and hit back following the two most recent suicide bombings in Jerusalem, Gillon said in a recent interview at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Charges against a Brooklyn Chassidic rabbi of groping a 15-year-old girl during a transpacific flight were part of an extortion plot and will be dismissed by federal prosecutors.
Complete with a ketubah signing, champagne, speeches and a few tears, the installation of Rabbi Michael Beals at B\’nai Tikvah Congregation in Westchester seemed more like a wedding.
Liss, a veteranscreenwriter with a long list of credits, including theHolocaust-themed TV film \”Hidden in Silence,\” has been to hell andback on an odyssey filled with more risk and drama than a paperbackthriller.
Nothing was reserved for the sacred in my family.And everything was subjected to trial by humor. My grandmotherSarah\’s seven children formed a family-circle club and named it theGarnet Group — after the gemstone associated with January, the monththey decided to hold the first meeting more than four decades ago.
Just one floor beneath the legendary Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, there\’s a large room that, for much of the week, remains locked. The chef has the key. So does the catering manager. But if they ever want to so much as crack open the door, they can\’t do so alone. First, they need the rabbi.
Tisha B\’Av, the day of mourning in commemoration of the destruction of the two Temples, is notable for at least two reasons. For one, it may be the only holiday that Hallmark hasn\’t designed a card for. And it seems to be the one holiday that most Jews have heard of, but few seem to know much about. As with quarks and RNA and Rothko, we can drop \”Tisha B\’Av\” into a conversation, hoping all the while that we won\’t be asked to actually explain it.
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