Take nearly 100 people training to be rabbis, priests, pastors, ministers, nuns and religious educators. Put them together for 24 hours at a Jewish summer camp. Add a torrent of rain, and stir in several inches of thick mud. What do you get? You never know.
It\’s not that Congregation Knesseth Israel is in the wrong part of town. It\’s that the tiny traditional congregation — located on Robertson about a mile from Pico — is just a bit too far south of just the right part of town.
Edah was formed two years ago to press for greater tolerance and openness in the Orthodox community.
The factors that determine the way we Jews vote — indeed, that determine the way everyone votes — are complex and multiple.
Peter King is increasingly concerned about a campaign that seems to have lost its moorings.
Dominik and Reinhard are interns in the Gedenkdienst (commemorative service) program, which sends young volunteers, mostly in their 20s, to Holocaust-related institutions in the United States, Canada and Europe for 14-month long assignments.
Following a 14-month search, the board of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute (BBI) voted unanimously Feb. 9 to elect Rabbi Lee T. Bycel as BBI\’s new chief executive officer.
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Buford O. Furrow Jr., the avowed white supremacist accused of killing a Filipino-American mail carrier and wounding five persons at a Jewish Community Center last August.
David Ivry isn\’t the slickest or most media-savvy envoy in recent years, but he knows what he wants, and has the right credentials to get it.
At first glance, the some 40 dancers warming up at the University of Judaism looked identical to each other. All were limber, wiry, dressed in leotards or sweats. But the murmured voices in the studio — in Hebrew and Arabic, as well as English — told a different story.
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