When Harry Blitzstein decided to open up his Blitzstein Museum of Art (facetiously subtitled \”Formerly Moe\’s Meat Market\”), the neighboring merchants on Fairfax Avenue had a unanimous reaction. \”They thought I was just kidding,\” the painter said.
You know that strange window of time Sunday morning before the Super Bowl starts, when you don\’t want to start anything that won\’t be finished by kickoff, but you\’ve still got to find something to do? Sinai Temple, nearly a dozen other local Conservative men\’s clubs and the Federation of Jewish Men\’s Clubs have an idea: try joining 10,000 others who will be wrapping tefillin.
Tour operator Tova Gilead returned from a 10-day trip to Israel in early January and brought back wonderful stories of people experiencing the beauty and history of the Holy Land, many for the first time.
I was more than a little conflicted when Israel\’s Ministry of Tourism invited me to visit the Holy Land for one week in December to judge for myself whether the country was safe enough for tourists. I\’d never traveled to Israel before, and while I knew that life was going on as usual for most Israelis, CNN\’s daily images of conflict and the U.S. State Department\’s warning fed my apprehension.
After killing an Egyptian taskmaster for nearly beating to death an Israelite slave, Moses, who is introduced in this week\’s Torah portion, flees for his life.
To all the people who\’ve invited me to events with those two fateful words, \”And Guest,\” I apologize. I\’m sorry you have to look through your wedding or shower or Bar Mitzvah photos and say, \”Who\’s that?\” when looking at my date.
This is the first time I have written a letter of this kind, but I felt it was time to express my feelings on paper.
As time runs out on both Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak, it appears highly unlikely that an enduring and comprehensive agreement in the Middle East will be achieved.
Nostalgia for Bill Clinton? Don\’t say I didn\’t warn you. Even as George W. Bush takes office, the Jewish community is weeping sentimental tears for the almost lethally charismatic president who, in the words of The Forward, \”had come to embody the hopes of Jewish liberals in America and Israel during the 1990s.\” Clinton, who is no stranger to schmaltz, had policy wonks and foreign affairs careerists alike publicly weeping when he chose the Israel Policy Institute as the site of his last address last week, hinting that yet one more attempt at an Arab-Israeli solution was still in the works.
After seven years of Israel making heroic concessions in return for terrorism, genocidal hatred and official calls for Israel\’s destruction, Rob Eshman still supports Barak\’s efforts at the negotiating table (\”Men and Martyrs,\” Jan. 12).
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