\”I\’m not crying for them,\” she whispers. \”I\’m crying for me. No one\’s going to make my heart their home.\”\”I know,\” I confess. \”Someone might make my heart their apartment, but they\’ll ruin the carpets and insist on a month-to-month lease.\”
Visiting California for the first time since he took over following his father\’s 47-year reign last year, King Abdullah II of Jordan attended a Beverly Hilton Hotel luncheon Monday and told his audience that prospects of Middle East peace in the near future look good.Speaking before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Abdullah said, \”We can have peace in the Middle East and have it quickly.\”
There are few times when a sense of community is more necessary than when our lives are touched by death. Perhaps that is why more than 400 people from every point along the spectrum of the Los Angeles Jewish community came together Sunday at the site of the new Mount Sinai Memorial Park and Mortuary in Simi Valley for the opening of the park\’s chapel and administration building.
The election of Lazar as chief rabbi comes just a week after the country\’s chief rabbi for the past decade, Adolph Shayevich, accused the Russian government of seeking his ouster.
The first report on Assad\’s death caught me by surprise. It was from Eric Silver, our Jerusalem correspondent (see page 20), and it recounted his interview with the former chief rabbi of Syria, Avraham Hamra, who now lives in Israel.
In this era of school violence and body piercing, teenagers, never the most applauded demographic segment of our society, have been getting some amazingly bad press. To hear the media tell it, adolescents who aren\’t destroying themselves or others are just too lazy and apathetic to be bothered.And if Jewish teens aren\’t filling up juvie hall, they\’re not filling up the synagogues, either. After Bar and Bat Mitzvah, we\’re led to believe, you never see them again. Why would Jewish kids hang out at shul when they can be cruising around in their parents\’ Beemers, downloading porn from the Internet, turning their brains into Swiss cheese with drugs?
\”George Gershwin Alone,\” the only one-man show ever permitted by the heirs of the composer for the commercial stage, began in the shadow of the Holocaust.
The fading Hebrew inscriptions that adorn the walls of a small storeroom in the town of Terezin can be seen in virtually any synagogue around the globe.But thousands of Jews have been flocking to the recently discovered room because of its unique role in history – as a makeshift synagogue during the former Czech ghetto\’s darkest days.
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