All right, already. Enough with the Kabbalah, klezmer and \”Kosher Sex.\”
The trendy trappings of the new \”cultural Judaism\” are fun, but they cannot stand alone without another important element: connection.
Stuart Blumberg remembers the days when he was a struggling writer, rooming in New York with his buddy, Edward Norton, the struggling actor.
Bartov added that it was important to expose people like Irving, \”who has been published by respectable publishers and been cited by scholars like me. But in recent years, he\’d become more extreme and associated himself with neo-Nazi circles.\”
A vigil for the Iran 13 — the Iranian-Jews who were arrested by the Iranian government on spying charges and are in the center of a controversial trial that began on Thursday in Tehran — will be held at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance.
While Dr. Remen spoke about doctors specifically, she stressed that \”caring for the soul of all caregiving professionals\” is critical in a time of cynicism, professional burnout, numbness and depression.
Natan Sharansky, Israel\’s interior minister, said he empathizes with the suffering of the 18,000 Ethiopians who have gathered at dusty transit camps, and he promised to streamline the process of applying for immigration to Israel.
When it first emerged in November that a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez had been fished out of the sea, Moises Asis relied on his lawyerly instincts.
Reform and Conservative leaders in Israel had hoped Israel\’s Supreme Court would resolve a years-long struggle for recognition in Israel.
Justice Charles Gray, the quintessence of British correctness, courtesy and understatement, did not mince words when he declared that David Irving was indeed, as Lipstadt had charged, an anti-Semite, a racist, a distorter of history, a partisan of Hitler and a Holocaust denier.
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