The Wines They are a Changin’
Eric Silver
March 9, 2000
Forget the sweet and sticky Kiddush wine of yesteryear. Israeli wine is on the map. And Israelis are drinking it, too. The Promised Land is going yuppie.
Category
March 9, 2000
Too Hip to be Jewish
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2000
Alex Dwek, a London-born real-estate developer, sits with a friend in a dimly-lit cafe on New York\’s fashionable Upper West Side, sipping white wine and chatting up a young lady he\’s just met. The three of them, all 30-something, fashionably dressed and single, have just emerged from an evening class nearby, where they studied \”The Artist\’s Way: Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self.\”
Uncovering Rampart
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2000
Does it stop at the individual policemen in the Rampart Division? Or does it spread elsewhere in the Los Angeles Police Department?
Jews and the Death Penalty
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2000
Many people assume that Jewish law unequivocally advocates capital punishment, because of frequent references to capital crimes and capital punishment in the Torah. But while Jewish law supports the death penalty in theory, the Oral Law makes it difficult, and in most cases impossible, to execute someone for murder, says Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, director of the Jewish Studies Institute of Yeshiva of Los Angeles and the chair of Jewish law and ethics at Loyola Law School.
Running Low
David Landau
March 9, 2000
Surfacing this week, the Mordechai affair deals Barak\’s motley coalition another awkward blow.
Washington Watch
James D
March 9, 2000
Spending 90 minutes in a small room with Yasser Arafat doesn\’t quiet old qualms. In military garb and his trademark headdress, Arafat still evokes images of the stubble-bearded terrorist mastermind who caused so much misery and fear for Jews worldwide.
Sound Advice
Wendy J. Madnick
March 9, 2000
Two recent conferences held in the Jewish community — one on autism, the other on a wide scope of disabilities — demonstrated the difficulties of reconciling research and reality when it comes to helping individuals with special needs.
Fitting the Crime
Naomi Pfefferman
March 9, 2000
Eleanor Kadish had only returned to work for a couple of weeks when she learned that federal prosecutors were seeking the death penalty for Buford O. Furrow, Jr., the avowed white supremacist who is awaiting trial for allegedly shooting her son and four other people at the North Valley Jewish Community Center before murdering a Filipino-American postal worker Aug. 10.
Strong Opinions
Naomi Pfefferman
March 9, 2000
Renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai acknowledges that his film, \”Kadosh,\” raises ire in segments of the observant community. \”It\’s critical of certain elements of Jewish tradition that I consider to be reactionary,\” says the filmmaker, whose movie tells of two oppressed Orthodox women in Jerusalem\’s Mea Shearim. \”But it\’s not a total denial. It\’s precise.\”
Seeking Forgiveness
Ruth E. Gruber
March 9, 2000
Pope John Paul II will act this month on two prominent themes that have colored his papacy: seeking forgiveness for past Catholic errors, including the treatment of Jews, and his intense personal dream of making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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