I have three sisters, two older and one younger. My youngest sister, Debbie, was born when I was 8 years old. In the months leading up to her birth, I remember clearly the anxiety I felt over the possibility that it might turn out to be a boy and I might end up with a brother.
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of Vaad-Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1933-1945, Efraim Zuroff, Yeshiva University Press, 316 pages, $39.50
When George W. Bush moves into the White House next month, his most difficult task will be to rally a fractured electorate and Congress around his presidency and his agenda.
Presidential transitions are tough even in the best of circumstances. And with the outcome of this year\’s political brawl delayed by weeks of legal and political maneuvering, the 2001 transition will be tougher than most.
For those who look up to the American Jewish clergy, it has not been a good year. Last week, one of the Reform movement\’s most prominent rabbis was suspended from the movement\’s rabbinical association for past sexual misconduct.
The next chapter in the struggle for normality in Judaism on the part of gay men and lesbians will take place within Conservative Judaism over admission to rabbinical school.
\nThe government of Israel has wisely chosen to cooperate with a U.S.-led international commission that began investigating Israeli-Palestinian violence this week. Led by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, the commission hopes its work will reduce the violence in the region and lead the parties back to the negotiating table.
\nThere is no Editor of cyberspace, and that\’s too bad. The latest e-mail craze to spread like the Melissa virus through the cc: box of various e-mails is the report of a man named Joseph Farah.
Dating Scenario 1: You meet a Ben Stiller look-alike at a friend\’s party. He\’s cute, funny and intelligent. You think he could be your leading man until he asks you out for Tuesday night bowling instead of Saturday night for dinner and a movie. You think he just wants to be your buddy. What you don\’t know is that he liked you so much he didn\’t want to wait until Saturday to see you.
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