Uncommon Journeys
Harvey Cox
September 6, 2001
Excerpted from \”Common Prayers: Faith, Family and a Christian\’s Journey Through the Jewish Year\” by Harvey Cox. (Houghton Mifflin, $24).
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September 6, 2001
The Lamb is Sure to Go
Mike Levy
September 6, 2001
Mallory Lewis grew up with a very famous sister, but she laughs if you ask about sibling rivalry. \”She slept in a shoebox in the closet, I had my own room, it was fine by me.\”
But this is no horror story of an evil stepsister. Mallory Lewis\’ sister is Lamb Chop, the adorable, perpetually 6-year-old puppet of children\’s entertainer Shari Lewis. Beloved by millions since their 1957 debut on \”The Captain Kangaroo Show,\” Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop would go on to entertain generations of kids with their PBS series and videos. Mallory Lewis began writing her mom\’s newspaper column for kids at the age of 12, and by the early \’90s, she was head writer and producer for mom\’s series.
Dershowitz Blacklisted
Tom Tugend
September 6, 2001
Celebrity Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, the prolific author and veteran battler for human rights, is a much-sought-after speaker, but Temple Adath Yeshurun in Syracuse, N.Y., may have scored a first by withdrawing an invitation to him.
Tijuana: A Tale of Two Synagogues
Ruth Stroud
September 6, 2001
A bus trip to visit two Tijuana synagogues this spring provided an irresistible opportunity to learn about two distinctly different Jewish communities in a bustling border metropolis where Jews number fewer than 1 percent of the city\’s 1.2 million residents.
By far the more unusual of the two shuls was Congregacion Hebrea de Baja California, made up almost entirely of converted Mexican Catholics, including its leader, a charismatic non-ordained rabbi, whose resume includes a stint as a Methodist minister. Carlos Salas Diaz, an imposing man in a dark suit, who welcomed us warmly into the temple\’s brightly lit sanctuary, looks like the successful businessman he continues to be and at least two decades younger than his chronological age of close to 70.
Counting Our Blessings
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
September 6, 2001
Jewish legal tradition teaches that we should recite 100 blessings every day. This presents an opportunity and a challenge. How might I fill up my quota today?
Reality Doesn’t Bite
Teresa Strasser
September 6, 2001
Last night, I was watching \”Big Brother,\” a show mocked for its lack of action. Call me crazy, but to me, it\’s Chekhov; it\’s all about the subtext. Anyway, a contestant named Bunky was voted out of the house last week. That\’s when I realized that slowly, quietly, the new breed of reality shows is causing a revolution.
Henry Rosmarin
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2001
Henry Rosmarin, a Holocaust survivor, supporter of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and harmonica enthusiast, died Aug. 28 at the age of 75.
A statement by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior
Michael Melchior
September 6, 2001
The following is excerpted from a statement by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, read Monday at the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, by Ambassador Mordecai Yedid, the head of the Israeli delegation.
Political Pot Boils Over
Michael J. Jordan
September 6, 2001
On a cool and drizzly night in this Indian Ocean port city, a vast white tent standing in the middle of a cricket field seemed to fit in with the circus atmosphere of the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, one Jewish observer said.
This was no regular circus that had come to town, however, but a viciously anti-Israel, anti-Jewish circus that had carried on all week and was about to reach its apex.
It got so bad on Monday, just halfway through the official governmental conference that began Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 7, that the United States and Israel recalled their delegations.
The U.S. delegation said it would not continue working in such a \”racist,\” anti-Semitic atmosphere.
An End to Denial
Julie Wiener
September 6, 2001
The Borough Park section of Brooklyn is one of America\’s most visibly Jewish neighborhoods.
On several residential blocks of one- and two-family brick homes, almost every front door has a mezuzah. Modestly dressed women push strollers, while girls in dresses and boys in tzitzit and kippot play on the sidewalks. Sixteenth Avenue, one of the main drags, is lined with religious study centers and yeshivot, small synagogues and Judaica stores.
And in the middle of it all is an agency that runs a treatment program for Orthodox Jewish pedophiles.
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