Rabbi Avrohom Czapnik, director of the Jewish Learning Exchange and assistant principal at Yeshiva Rav Isacsohn-Toras Emes, says the unity and friendship that results when we exchange gifts is a theme central to the Purim story.
The former fiscal administrator for the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has been arrested and charged with embezzling $1.179 million from the Reform movement\’s seminary.\nJean M. Thorbourn, 61, of Sherman Oaks, forged numerous checks between 1989 and 1997, using a dean\’s signature stamp, and apparently applied a considerable part of the money to finance production of independent films, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney\’s office.
\”I\’ll be very honest with you — I\’m disappointed in the Jewish reaction,\” Father Dennis Mikulanis said. \”Here\’s the Catholic Church, bending over backward to say mistakes were made, we were wrong. But nothing is ever enough. Can\’t we ever hear a simple \’Thank you\’?\”
Jews and Latino\’s share many things, Xavier Becerra, the Congressman from L.A.\’s 30th district, who just returned from an AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel, reminds us. But we live apart, a great geographic divide separating us, almost as though we were citizens of different countries.
The all-but-certain nominees are now turning their sights on each other. The campaign for the general election will be bloody, but hardly inspiring; all indications suggest it will be another low-turnout, high-spending exercise.
\”The land of the prophets is becoming the land of profits,\” says an American businessman who has transformed his passion for the State of Israel into a successful business venture.
David Irving told the High Court in London this week that some of the world\’s largest Jewish organizations are involved in an international conspiracy against him.
A year after my father\’s unexpected death from a kidney transplant, I returned home.
Six months earlier, my mother had sold our house, the one I had lived in my entire life. The synagogue was the same. The family was the same. Their friends were the same.
\”Boiler rooms\” are semi-legitimate brokerage houses located primarily on Long Island, New York, whose workaholic salesmen sell IPO (initial public offering) stock the way telemarketers hawk tools or kitchen knives.
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