\”I wanted to turn the Shabbat service on its head,\” Rabbi Toba August says of Lev Eisha, A Creative Prayer Service for Women, held the first Shabbat of each month at Adat Shalom.
During a period when a host of issues of major importance to the American Jewish community were occuring that commanded front page attention elsewhere, The Journal chose to devote the cover story and an editorial in the Nov. 20 issue to the complaints of a disgruntled documentary director and his co-writer against Moriah Films of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The upcoming Washington dialogue is meant to raise the communication between the two faiths to a new level, say spokesmen on both sides. Discussions will focus on issues like the divine roots of human ethics.
The life of Dr. Marilyn J. Harran, a non-Jewish professor of religious studies and history at Christian-based Chapman University, revolves around Holocaust education.
And so, not to put too fine a point on it, in 1945 and the years immediately following there was no such word as \”Holocaust.\”
If the multitude of Jewish events are any indication, the holidays hit hard this season.
It was billed as a championship heavyweight bout, the great debate between Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler and other pornographic magazines, and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of \”Kosher Sex\” and other major works.
After exactly 18 years of knowing them, Blanka and Mirek allowed me to tell their story in the form of a book. I just finished writing it — \”The Oasis.\”
Yeshiva University is enmeshed in its own battle over gay and lesbian couples less than a month after the Reform movement affirmed the right of its rabbis to officiate at same-gender commitment ceremonies.
Although we have always lived with threats to our physical survival, today\’s sense of uncertainty is heightened by the awareness that military power cannot resolve all the problematic issues we face.
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