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April 13, 2000

Swollen

Teresa Strasser April 13, 2000

Some days, you really don\’t feel like taking the high road.
Take today, for example, when I read a letter from a reader named Molly (not her real name). Maybe I just wasn\’t ready to deal with this total stranger who seems to have taken a keen but rather unpleasant interest in me. Maybe I just hadn\’t had my coffee yet, and my mind was like a dozen unmade beds and half-baked ideas and I wasn\’t standing firm enough not to be blown over by the sheer force of this person\’s meanness.

At that moment, the high road was looking mighty unappealing.

The Reality of Desert Life

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben April 13, 2000

Draped in a deep, earthen-red shukah, adorned with circles of brightly beaded necklaces and head-to-toe with body paint made from ochre and sheep fat, the Masai warrior keeps a silent vigil in the midst of the relentless equatorial heat of East Africa. His life is a mission from his god, Ngai, to protect and care for his herd of cattle and the earth itself.

Chances for Peace

Michelle K. Wolf April 13, 2000

Signing a framework for a peace agreement with the Palestinians by the end of May will help Israel to reshape the strategic equation in the Middle East, according to Israel\’s deputy defense minister, Ephraim Sneh, who briefed 250 delegates and guests at the recent Labor Zionist Alliance biennial convention.

An Unaccustomed Sound

Beverly Gray April 13, 2000

Today\’s schools tend to have only limited resources for music instruction, and Jewish day schools are no exception. And in an American Jewish community dominated by Ashkenazic-descended households, Sephardic culture remains a mystery to many Jewish children. Happily, the Maurice Amado Foundation has stepped in to address both of these problems.

Senior Seders

Leilah Bernstein April 13, 2000

The Passover holiday contains countless traditions. There\’s the matzah and the sweet wine, the charoset and haggadot, the gefilte fish and the good fortune we celebrate. But perhaps most importantly, there is the gathering together of family and friends — the people who make the singing, reading and eating around the seder table meaningful and special.

Passover Stories

Naomi Pfefferman April 13, 2000

On the first day of school, when Barbara Gindi escorted her children to Maimonides Academy, she was appalled by what she saw: Two security guards stood out front, a Sheriff\’s squad car was parked at the curb, and the administrative staff was on high alert.\n\n

50 Years and Counting

Ellen Jaffe-Gill April 13, 2000

The Academy for Jewish Religion, a transdenominational rabbinical seminary, will open its doors in Los Angeles this fall, giving formal expression to a longtime trend toward a more personalized, spiritually oriented, pluralistic Judaism, academy founders say.

Musical Matzah

Ruth Andrew Ellenson April 13, 2000

\”Celebrate Passover\” is the second of a planned three-part series, following \”Celebrate Hanukkah,\” with \”Celebrate Shabbat\” scheduled for release later this year.

The Striking Janitors — A Jewish Response

Rabbi Steven Jacobs April 13, 2000

I have always felt a certain kinship with those who march for dignity and justice at great risk to their livelihood. So it is once again that I have marched each day with the striking janitors who are fighting for a mere $1-an-hour raise.

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