It happened one evening just outside the men\’s room at Valley Beth Shalom synagogue in Encino. A historic dialogue between Rabbi Harold Schulweis and Cardinal Roger Mahoney had concluded in the sanctuary, and County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky went to the restroom.
have got to get my car registered before I collect any more tickets. But before I do that, I really should get around to changing the filter in my Brita water pitcher at home because I\’ve noticed some black, metallic specks floating around that are probably doing my liver some long-term damage.
A bush that is on fire but doesn\’t burn is indeed a mysterious phenomenon. But arguably, there is a far more mysterious element in the story of God\’s commanding Moshe to go down to Egypt to the palace of Pharaoh.
As sure as death and taxes, Israelis can count on a coalition crisis every year in the last week of December. It happened three times to the Likud\’s Binyamin Netanyahu, and no one was surprised that this month it happened to his Labor successor, Ehud Barak.
Shawn Green has a reputation for being an excellent student. At Tustin High School in Orange County, he graduated third in his class.
When Rabbi Eric Yoffie and other Reform movement leaders walked through the doors of Walt Disney World\’s Dolphin Hotel about a week before Christmas last year, they were greeted by a garishly lit, outsized Christmas Tree and the sound of caroling.
David Glickman thought he had left Judaism far behind. He arrived in Maui in 1990 to research whales after studying psychology and animal behavior at the University of Hawaii (UH).
We met a man by the pool at the Grand Wailea. Our children were splashing around together, and he and I got to talking with all the intimacy that comes from knowing for certain we would never see each other again.
At one point in the play, \”Kabbalah: Scary Jewish Stories,\” a yeshivabocher and a severed talking head careen across the Abyss.
A new study of national Jewish population trends was completed recently at the University of Miami, by one of the nation\’s leading experts in Jewish demography, and it\’s a bombshell.
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