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March 8, 2001
The Mouse Hawks Mezuzot
Looking for the perfect gift for that upcoming wedding or bat mitzvah? If you\’re in the Anaheim area, you may want to check out Downtown Disney, the new shopping/dining/entertainment complex just outside Disneyland and the new California Adventure park. Make your way to the New Agey objets d\’art store near the entrance (just follow the John Tesh music), turn to the right when you enter, and you\’ll feel as if you were transported by Disney magic to an upscale temple gift shop. A glass case of doorpost-ready mezuzot is prominently displayed; a variety of menorahs and tzedekah boxes fill several shelves.
Orthodox Hoopster Skips Big Game for Shabbat
Add Tamir Goodman\’s name to the small Hebrew school sports pantheon.
Lighten Up
With the demise of the former Soviet Union and the fall of communism in the early \’90s, the story of Soviet Jewry\’s battle for survival appears to be ancient history. Yet one of the truly remarkable books of our time is the autobiography of one of the famous refuseniks, Yosef Mendelevitch, who struggled valiantly for his right to be Jewish in Communist Russia. Mendelevitch titled his autobiography \”Mevzah Hatunah,\” which translates from Hebrew as \”Operation Wedding.\”
The Fountainhead
My friend Roth is dating a girl named Erica. By religion, she is Swedenborgian. He\’d never even heard of this (neither had I), until she came along and spelled it all out for him.
An Enabler of Genocide
Edwin Black\’s new book, \”IBM and the Holocaust\” (Crown) has generated significant interest. Full-page advertisements in the New York Times and other prestigious newspapers and interviews on the \”Today Show\” and other prominent television programs have all been part of its marketing program. Despite its many substantial problems, the work is important.
Topsy-Turvy
How do you feel about what\’s going on here in Israel? How do you think you\’re supposed to feel?
New Coalition Opposes Intermarriage
In the face of widespread popular Jewish acceptance of intermarriage and a sense that the Jewish community\’s leaders have given up any effort to oppose it, a group of 25 Jewish rabbis, intellectuals, lay leaders and communal affairs professionals is galvanizing to fight for change.
Looking Right and Left
Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon was expected to present his new government for Knesset approval on Wednesday, after the fervently Orthodox Shas Party signed a coalition agreement that gives Sharon a parliamentary majority.
Estranged Bedfellows
Only in Israel would a government minister refrain from singing the national anthem.
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