Building Bonds
Sharon Samber
March 15, 2001
Think of the American Jewish and Latino communities as two longtime friends who have just decided to get more serious.
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March 15, 2001
Obituaries:Josif Kirtsman, 50
Tom Tugend
March 15, 2001
Josif Kirtsman was born in 1951 in Odessa, Ukraine. His whole family planned to follow his aunt and uncle, who had emigrated to America in 1912.
More than Neutrality?
Steven Teitelbaum
March 15, 2001
Advocates of President Bush\’s charitable-choice plan have somehow managed to squeak by a basic premise of their argument — that there is a unique therapeutic power of religious-based social programs. For this they offer personal anecdotes but no proof. Even Steven Goldsmith finally admitted this during a recent NPR interview in which he answered \”no\” when asked if there was hard proof of faith-based efforts being more effective.
A Faith-Based Solution
Steven Goldsmith
March 15, 2001
No sooner had President Bush announced the establishment of a White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives than the editorial pages of newspapers across the nation were sounding alarms over fears that the constitutional wall separating church and state would soon come crashing down.
Answering the Call
Charlotte Hildebrand
March 15, 2001
A historic conference call recently took place between the six Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters (JBBBS) associations in America. The Jewish agencies had never spoken together outside of informal gatherings at Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) conferences; in the past, they had never had a reason to speak as one.
Mission Impossible?
Gary Rosenblatt
March 15, 2001
On a brisk night in early January, hundreds of American Jews from throughout the United States, still jet-lagged from their arrival in Israel that morning, are filing into a large airplane hangar at Hatzor, an isolated air force base near Ashkelon.
Destination Israel
Jonathan Friendly
March 15, 2001
Tourism in Israel is being hammered. The Al-Aqsa uprising that began last fall has prompted a flood of trip postponements and cancellations, particularly by Americans who saw no need to put themselves or their children at risk when stones and bullets were flying in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Face to Face
Rabbi Susan Laemmle
March 15, 2001
Parashat Ki Tisa tells us that \”the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to another.\” (Exodus 33:11) We also hear God telling Moses, \”I have singled you out by name, and you have indeed gained My favor\” (Exodus 33:12). In Numbers 12:8, God explains that only with Moses does communication occur \”mouth to mouth.\” And the expression \”face to face\” (panim el panim) recurs in Deuteronomy 34:10, as both Moses\’ life and the Torah reach their conclusion: \”Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses — whom the Lord singled out, face to face.\”
Israel vs. ‘Ally McBeal’
Orit Arfa
March 15, 2001
When the new intifada first began, a few Israeli men I dated could not figure out why I wanted to remain in Israel considering the "situation."
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