The statistics are shocking. Last year, more than 1 million children carried a concealed pistol to school. In 1997, 32,436 people died because of firearm violence. And of that number, only 268 deaths could be categorized as \”justifiable homicides.\”
Aish HaTorah: 9:30-11:10 a.m. \”The Understanding Minyan,\” focusing on the meaning of prayers, Hebrew-reading skills and the \”how- to\” of the synagogue service. Saturdays. Kiddush included.
Cult filmmaker Sarah Jacobson can one-up any L.A. Jewish reader who felt like an outcast in high school.
Art has a wonderful way of bringing us back to our roots. Take that controversial modern-art exhibit now showing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It\’s making monkeys out of everyone concerned.
Israel Bonds: They\’re not just for bar and bat mitzvahs anymore.
This past summer I saw an old friend of mine in New York, a woman I had met shortly after arriving in the city years ago. On several occasions Nancy and I had worked together. Our conversation was warm, affectionate, biographical. Catching up on one another, as it were, and then onto the turns and curves in our friends\’ lives.
Next month, Prime Minister Ehud Barak will travel to Atlanta for the General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities, the central philanthropic and service organization in the American Jewish world.
Could there be a more fitting way to open an evening of Catholic-Jewish dialogue than by singing a gospel rendition of \”The Storm Is Passing Over\”?
About 1,000 people crammed into Jerusalem\’s Kol Haneshama Reform synagogue for Yom Kippur services, while another 500 or so listened in the courtyard outside.
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