January 15, 1998

Community

Ruth Stroud January 15, 1998

Community Events.

Judaism & Homosexuality

Ruth Stroud January 15, 1998

In Leviticus, male sexual relations are considered an abomination,punishable by death. \”A man shall not be with another man as if with a woman. It is an abomination,\” reads one passage.

In the disturbing opening sequence of \”The Long Way Home,\” a survivor recalls the horrified stares of her American liberators at Bergen-Belsen. \”I saw one…double over and throw up and then another and another,\” she says. \”I saw they were looking at [me] in disgust,and a deep despair came over me.\”

CommunityMilken’s Class Acts

Jewish Journal January 15, 1998

Every year, the Milken Family Foundation gives public recognition and $10,000 each to education professionals \”who have made significant contributions to excellence in day schools affiliated with the Bureau of Jewish Education,\” according to the foundation.

Canadian Corn

Diane Arieff January 15, 1998

Like some of his Jewish contemporaries to the south, Canadian novelist Mordechai Richler has mined a literary career from the fertile terrain of assimilationist Jewish culture, most notably inbooks such as \”The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz\” and \”Joshua Then and Now.\”