Secular and Sacred
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
December 3, 1998
Recently, an analysis appeared in the press about the Jewish elements in American popular music.
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December 3, 1998
What To Do About Lebanon?
Eric Silver
December 3, 1998
A new coded message has entered the chilly lexicon of Israeli anxiety. \”Heavy fighting is taking place in Lebanon,\” intones the news reader. Hundreds of mothers and fathers with soldier sons serving across the northern border know immediately what that means. There are casualties, but the families have not yet been notified.
When Poverty Strikes
Naomi Pfefferman
December 3, 1998
Every evening, the petite, homeless Jewish woman discreetly parks her compact car across the street from a public park. She spends the night in an automobile that holds all her possessions.
Toppling the Chanukah Bush
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
December 3, 1998
Rabbi Eli Herscher is leading a discussion about the December holidays with about two dozen participants of Stephen S. Wise Temple\’s Holiday Workshop Series. The class attracts a good number of intermarried couples and those considering conversion, but they are not the only ones who squirm over the topic.
I Wish It Were More
Marlene Adler Marks
December 3, 1998
I am a lousy gift-giver. I\’m bad enough on birthdays, when gift-giving makes me so nervous that my gifts never arrive on time. But I\’m absolutely awful in December, when I feel so pressured by Chanukah expectations that I buy gift after gift for three of the people on my list, inadvertently leaving out everyone else. Maybe it\’s a new kind of learning disability, Adverse Gift Disorder. But I mean well, I do.
The Cardinal Comes to the Board of Rabbis
Ruth Stroud
December 3, 1998
In a historic address to the Board of Rabbis of Southern California last week, Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles, called for the elimination of centuries of Catholic and Christian anti-Semitic teaching and a new era of Catholic-Jewish understanding and cooperation.
Culture, High and Low
Diane Arieff
December 3, 1998
It isn\’t as though you exactly need a reason to visit the Getty Center. But for those in search of one, we can recommend a gem of an exhibition: the display of works by the famous Russian Jewish artist El Lissitzky (1890-1941).
The Signature Dish of Chanukah, Potato Latkes, Hits the Big Time
Linda Morel
December 3, 1998
Potato latkes are Chanukah\’s signature dish, not because of the potato — but because of the oil. Potatoes did not exist in the Holy Land when the ancient Israelites triumphed over the Syrians.
Channeling Success
Tom Tugend
December 3, 1998
\”I\’ve been pushing this rock uphill for 10 years, and I won\’t stop until I reach the top,\” says Jay Sanderson.\n\nThe \”rock\” Sanderson is edging upward is the Jewish Television Network, and it\’s been grunt work most of the way.
A Cinematic Look at Israel
Diane Arieff
December 3, 1998
The Israeli Film Festival, now in it\’s 15th year, has, in many ways, come of age — in subject matter, directorial style and sensibility.
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