Campus organizations often go overlooked or get taken for granted by students and alumni alike. Hillel at Pierce and Valley Colleges has those problems — and then some.
The University of Judaism is not easy to categorize. Unique among this country\’s Jewish institutions of higher learning, it combines an undergraduate college, a graduate school of education, an MBA program, a long list of continuing education offerings, two nationally renowned think tanks and a 4-year-old theological seminary.
My daughter has always been the squeamish type. Once, when she was about 4 years old, we were talking about the exodus from Egypt — the dark night of watching, when God told the Israelites to slaughter lambs and smear the blood on the doorposts of their houses so that the Holy One would \”pass over\” and spare their firstborn from destruction.
Tongue of a Bird,\” now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, is a confoundedly difficult play.
It\’s common knowledge that the Jewish exodus from Russia in the late 1980s brought to Israel a flood of talented artists and musicians.
On a terrible day in 1941, Irene Gut Opdyke saw a Nazi soldier snatch a Jewish baby from his mother and smash him on the ground.
Let us not, for the moment, worry about President Clinton, since he obviously can take care of himself.
When Joanne Corday Kozberg talks about her new job as president and chief operating officer of the downtown Music Center, the key words are \”challenges,\” \”outreach\” and \”re-energizing.\”
The history of the Middle East conflict, from the birthpangs of the Jewish state to today\’s headlines, has rarely, if ever, been presented with more immediacy and human color as \”The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs.\”
The Rev. Jerry Falwell may be good friends with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but he also believes that an apocalyptic whirlwind is about to descend on the world — and that the ultimate villain in these events will be a Jew.
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