If Only
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
June 15, 2000
Two words work to keep us from deeper, more spiritual lives: if only.
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June 15, 2000
Russian Jewish Culture
Gary Rosenblatt
June 15, 2000
About 800,000 to 1 million Jews remain in Russia, at least half of them in the two largest cities, and though emigration continues on a steady if undramatic level – 30,000 to Israel last year – the estimated Jewish population in these two cities remains fairly constant as emigrants are replaced by other Jews who move here from more rural areas of the FSU.
To the Graduates
Marlene Adler Marks
June 15, 2000
I can\’t remember a word spoken by Ira Goldstein, the Plainview (NY) High School valedictorian, Class of 1965, but I\’m sure his graduation address was brilliant. Ira, who apparently was in the Philosophy Club with me for three now-forgotten years, was the most brilliant boy in a class of brilliant boys. Girls were \”smart\” or \”sweet\” in those days; boys were \”brilliant.\”
\”The difficult he does quickly; the impossible takes a little
A Tale of Two Women
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
June 15, 2000
The library director enlisted more than 200 libraries and institutions \”from Boca Raton, Florida, to Portland, Oregon,\” as Yasgur puts it, sending them \”full-color brochures that will entice children and families to read Jewish literature.\” She hopes that her syllabus of Jewish literature will encourage families to read, share and appreciate Jewish literature.
Crumbling Coalition
David Landau
June 15, 2000
The coincidence could hardly have been lost on Ehud Barak: As President Hafez Assad was laid to rest in Syria, Israel\’s Shas Party appeared to lay the premier\’s \”peace coalition\” to rest.The fervently Orthodox party\’s Council of Sages, headed by spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, sounded what could be the first notes of the prime minister\’s coalition\’s death knell Tuesday. The council ordered Shas ministers to hand in their resignations at Sunday\’s Cabinet meeting.
Ghosts on the Beach
Charlotte Hildebrand
June 15, 2000
I arrived in Miami Beach one morning last week on a mission: to find the last kosher hotel in South Beach, an ultra-hip area of restaurants, clubs and shops that used to be the hub of Florida Jewish life.Today you can drive along Ocean Drive (inch along is more like it) and see scores of suburban teenagers and sophisticated European tourists sitting at Art Deco restaurants and hotels, sipping their lattes and looking to be seen, but you won\’t find many Jews. South Beach is where Gianni Versace was murdered on the steps of his mansion and where Gloria Estefan, Madonna and Sylvester Stallone all have had multimillion-dollar homes at one time or another.
Networking with Net Workers
Michael Aushenker
June 15, 2000
As June began, so did The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles\’ new Hi-Tech Division. The Federation officially booted up its Web-surfing coalition by the surf, with a shindig at the Santa Monica Beach-combing Casa del Mar Hotel.
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