Call it the \”Phantom Menace\” of singles events. Since its debut one year ago, Sinai Temple\’s \”Friday Night Live\” programming has evolved into a 2,000-pound gorilla not to be trifled with.
Norway has begun accepting applications for the approximately $60 million fund it created in March for Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The numbers are unmistakable. This year\’s freshman class was just under 10 percent Jewish, down from a high of about 18 percent in the early 1980s.
When she was 16, KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour was captivated by her studies with the Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich.
When Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs was received at the White House on Monday, together with other members of the Rev. Jesse Jackson\’s mission to Belgrade that successfully lobbied President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia for the release of three captive American soldiers, he passed on a message to President Clinton.
At times our perception of reality is altered radically; in effect, new facts force us to reexamine our assumptions no less than our illusions.
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Building Jewish unity in one afternoon is a tall order. And the organizers of Teen Clal\’s \”One People\” conference knew better than to expect miracles.
The film, which has been compared to Hans-Huergen Syberberg\’s \”Our Hitler,\” is sometimes heavy-handed and distinctly noncommercial. But it also raises issues about Hitler\’s mind and deeds that are engaging and timely.
Let\’s face it. We love the feeling of power. We love it at work, we love it at shul, we even love it at home.
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