Attention mouse potatoes: There is more to physical activity online than the baseball scores at www.ESPN.comIn fact, there are a host of sites devoted to fitness, providing health advice, exercise tipsand even some interactive options that help you plan and optimize your workouts. As with allthings online, what you find depends on what you are looking for.
Maybe it\’s no Sports Club/LA in its luxury and beauty, but the Elite Sports Center at Tel Aviv University is one of the best sports clubs in Israel, with facilities and services that may make even the premier sports club in L.A. a little envious.
Midway through JDate\’s first annual Tu B\’Av get-together, Nurit Ze\’evi, product manager of the Internet-based Jewish dating service, halted the music and Israeli folk dancing taking place. With marked enthusiasm, she turned to the audience of 50 and began to expound on the significance of Tu B\’Av – an obscure, forgotten love holiday created 4,000 years ago, when women, dressed in white, arrived to choose male suitors. Looking around the room rented from Congregation Mogen David, I gathered that the lecture might have been a waste of breath – judging from the median age of the partiers, they undoubtedly remem-ber the days when the ceremony was new.
\”Pay me to read? That would be awesome,\” my son Jeremy says.
Not only is he perpetually in debt, but he was also faced with a formidable list of books to read before beginning sixth grade at Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School in Northridge on Sept. 5.
\”But it would be wrong,\” he immediately adds.
Until last year, I held firm to that tribalist impulse familiar to many American Jews and refused to visit Germany (or fly Lufthansa or buy German products, etc.). Although no members of my immediate family had fallen victim to the Nazi terror, the resistance to things German was passed on from my parents\’ generation, which shared in the belated outrage (and desire to expunge feelings of inadequacy) of postwar American Jewry.
I\’ve been going to Jewish camps since 1985 and can lay bare my heart with the best of them. But I\’ve never attended a camp as intense as BCI, and my expectations for an epiphany are high, perhaps ridiculously so.
If you can read this, you can Web surf. That\’s the conclusion of a recent survey conducted by Mediamark Research, Inc., for the Joseph Jacobs Organization\’s Jewish Publications Network. The survey found that people who read Jewish newspapers (that\’s you, now) are more likely than not to own a computer and surf the Web. Here\’s the facts:By the way, you can read this same story online at our Web site: www. jewishjournal.com.
Award-winning mystery writer Rochelle Krich, the \”Orthodox Agatha Christie,\” has a confession: \”I became a talk show junkie during the O.J. Simpson trial,\” sheepishly admits Krich, 52, the author of nine whodunits in as many years. \”When the trial was over, I still needed my fix.\”
World of the Sephardim,\” \”The Other Side of the Holocaust – The Righteous Gentiles,\” \”Wanderings – Jews in the Diaspora.\” Courses offered by the University of Judaism or Skirball Cultural Center? Not at all. These and other Jewish-oriented topics are part of the study-discussion groups of the PLATO Society at UCLA Extension. The organization\’s name is an acronym for Perpetual Learning and Teaching Organization and has nothing to do with the Greek philosopher.
Morris Leven-ger was a wealthy, pious Jew who lived in Atlan-ta, Georgia, and attended synagogue daily before going to work. One day the rabbi asked for his help with scholarships for youngsters whose families could not afford tuition for Jewish day schools.
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