I ironed my bed skirt this weekend. I got out the can of spray starch and lovingly pressed that thing for an hour in the sauna-like atmosphere of my tiny kitchen. That\’s how much I didn\’t want to read "Why Can\’t I Fall in Love? A 12-Step Program."
While leading a tour of Israel for a group of college kids in the summer of 1995, I read a newspaper headline that described a newly issued halachic ruling by 15 rabbis — with former Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira at their helm: "The evacuation of West Bank IDF military bases poses a threat to Jewish life, and therefore, by halachic decree of this rabbinic council, all religious soldiers in the IDF are to refuse military orders to take part in any such operation."
The first mention of the Jews in India is made in the Book of Esther, which dates back to the second century B.C.E.
If you make a movie with animals in the post-"Babe" era, the critters had better do more than talk. "They have to, like, do kung fu," says Larry Guterman, director of "Cats & Dogs," about a secret war between man\’s best friends.
Evan and Jaron Lowenstein aren\’t your average rock stars. The identical-twin heartthrobs are Orthodox Jews whose contract includes a Sabbath clause.
Camp Ruach, also known as the Los Angeles Jewish Camp for Music and the Arts, debuted this summer on the grounds of Yeshivath Ohr Eliyahu Day School in Culver City.
After 56 years of being a rabbi\’s wife, thanks to The Journal (\”Rabbis\’ Wives,\” June 22) I now discover I am obsolete. I resent the implication that the old-fashioned rebbetzin is someone to disparage.
Israel may suffer from a lot of shortages — oil, water, new immigrants — but it has an astounding abundance, an endless supply, of opinions.
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