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March 8, 2001

Virtual Schmooze

We all hear rumblings about a global community, but a global schmooze? That\’s just what the Jewish Community Centers of North America, in conjunction with the 92nd Street Y in New York City, propose to execute. Starting on Sun., March 11, the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles will host an innovative new lecture series through Kallah — a program sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and supported by the Charles and Dora Mesnick Cultural Arts Fund — by bringing such speakers as Alan Dershowitz, Elie Wiesel and Anne Roiphe to you live, via satellite. The lectures will be broadcast from the 92nd Street Y in New York City directly to JCCs across the nation, allowing participants to ask questions to their lecturers in real time for what is being termed a \”virtual gathering.\”

The Tastes of Purim

When breaking the Fast of Esther on the night before Purim, two Middle Eastern Jewish cultures offer particularly interesting entrees.

A Purim SOS

Two weeks ago I got an actual SOS from a ship. Tova and Rabbi Zvi Dershowitz, en route to the Philippines on the Holland America cruise ship M.S. Rotterdam, were requesting a Persian Purim menu and recipes for the ship\’s executive chef.

The Real King David

\”King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel\” by Jonathan Kirsch (Ballantine Books, $28)

In his \”Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text,\” Rabbi Burton Visotzky writes, \”To the extent that the Bible reveals the words of God to a community, it is essential that students get those words down right, so that they may become part of the community. In certain communities, students of the Bible are free to question, grapple, doubt and deny — so long as they first hear their community\’s reading of God\’s word.\”

An Inspiring Rabbi

Stephen Tolkin was sitting at his desk, recounting how Rabbi Mark Borovitz became the inspiration for the leading male character on his spiritually themed CBS series, "Kate Brasher."

Satan in the Shtetl

\”Great-grandma was a naughty girl,\” says British filmmaker Ben Hopkins, whose feature debut, \”Simon Magus,\” is the tale of a Polish shtetl in peril.

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