The High Holy Days are a time for contemplation, a time to give thanks, to repent for the wrongs of the past year and seek forgiveness from those you may have hurt and especially from God.
This week\’s coordinated terror attacks on commercial and governmental sites in New York and Washington have stunned terrorism experts in their scope and sophistication — and prompted dire warnings that more could be in store for American citizens.
At the start of the Jewish year last Rosh Hashana, American Jews seemed on the cusp of fulfilling all their dreams. This year the major terrorist attack on American soil will no doubt have overshadowed every other event of the year.
My sister Julie was not bat mitzvahed. She does not read Hebrew. She attends synagogue exactly four times a year, observes the first night of Passover and celebrates Purim. She lives in Montecito, a lovely suburb just south of Santa Barbara, where she is known by the title: \”Queen of the Jews.\” She earned it.
Moshe Givati is like the Forrest Gump of Israel, having endured almost every defining moment of the country\’s history.
"It\’s a blessing to be able to work in this business. I don\’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth," says busy actor David Proval.
In His New Book, \”At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden\” (William Morrow, 2001), Yossi Klein Halevi, a writer for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Jerusalem Report and The New Republic, chronicles his journey as a Jew searching for understanding of Christianity and Islam in Israel.
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden
by Yossi Klein Halevi
William Morrow
New York artist Mark Podwal phoned a bit breathlessly. He had just received one of his frequent assignments — on a one-day deadline — from The New York Times for a sketch to run with an op-ed article by an Israeli journalist.
Barely three hours after the massive acts of terrorism began unspooling in the East on Sept. 11, officials at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles representing an array of affiliated departments, agencies and partners assembled to discuss emergency strategies to help those affected by the rapidly unfolding events.
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