The Human Element
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2000
The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism (UJ) ordained 12 candidates at Sinai Temple on May 16, its second class of rabbis.
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May 25, 2000
A Tightknit
Ilene Schneider
May 25, 2000
The welcome mat for South Africans is different – and yet somehow the same – as the one set out for the Jewish immigrants of 100 years ago.
The Skin We Can’t Shed
Diane Cole
May 25, 2000
Jewish demons have always pursued Philip Roth. Starting with the 1959 publication of \”Goodbye, Columbus,\” his iconoclastic and now classic portrait of materialistic Jewish suburbanites, Roth has dramatized his characters\’ struggle to reconcile their eternally warring urges to simultaneously lay claim to and distance themselves from (even sometimes flat-out reject) their Jewish heritage.
Worth the Effort
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
May 25, 2000
So what are you worth? Does it depend on how the market did today?
Woody Allen Comes Clean
Jewish Journal
May 25, 2000
\”People think I\’m being facetious when I say I once toyed with a life of crime,\” filmmaker Woody Allen recently told 1,400 students, professors and alumni during a standing-room-only screening of his new comedy, \”Small Time Crooks,\” at UCLA\’s Wadsworth Theater.
Singles
Susan Josephs
May 25, 2000
After she gave birth to Kitty, Jane Modell Rosen would sit by her daughter\’s crib and cry.
Working Together
Beverly Gray
May 25, 2000
When Mark Miller arrived in Los Angeles to become the associate director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple\’s camps and conference center, he expected to find fierce competition among Southern California\’s Jewish summer camps. Instead, he\’s been pleasantly surprised by the spirit of cooperation that exists within the local camping community.
Widening the Wall
Eric Silver
May 25, 2000
Campaigners for religious pluralism drove two gaping breaches this week through Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox control of the Western Wall.
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