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October 18, 2001

Show Goes On

Naomi Pfefferman October 18, 2001

As artists canceled performances en masse after last month\’s terrorist attacks, members of the Moscow Jewish Choir camped out for three days at the Moscow airport, hoping to catch the first available flight to America.\n\nCanceling their 20-city U.S. tour — including an Oct. 28 concert at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills — wasn\’t an option for the 11-member male ensemble. \”That would have been an admission that the terrorists had won,\” says choir director Michael Touretsky, whose group has performed for Israeli chief rabbis and the U.S. Congress.\n\n

Lenin, Meet Noah

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein October 18, 2001

Fall was just beginning to turn the Moscow air crispy when the lot of us — 10 high school seniors and three faculty members of YULA Girls\’ School — trudged down the stairs of our Intourist Hotel in the late \’80s, and began our walk of several miles, not to the better-known Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue or to the Moscow Choral Synagogue, but to another shul in the city\’s nort

In Praise of Geeks

Teresa Strasser October 18, 2001

Don\’t bother me with the guy voted \”Cutest smile.\” That guy\’s gonna go bad on you. That guy will be of no use. Worse, someday soon he will bore you; he will frustrate you with his basic inability to understand human suffering the way a geek can.

The Circuit

Michael Aushenker October 18, 2001

The Circuit, information on events around los angeles.\n

Revenge or Restraint?

David Landau October 18, 2001

As the week began, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon resolved to confront his old friend Rechavam Ze\’evi, minister of tourism and leader of the National Unity faction, who had been urging the premier to get much tougher with the Palestinians.

Sharon had just ordered the army out of Palestinian sections of the West Bank city of Hebron, occupied a week earlier to prevent gunmen from shooting at Jewish residents. In response, Ze\’evi and his seven-member National Unity-Israel, Our Home bloc threatened to secede from the government.

World Briefs

Jewish Journal October 18, 2001

The World Brief, news, media, info, updates from around the world.\n

Confused and Tangled Times

Marlene Adler Marks October 18, 2001

My favorite words of Torah are the very first: \”In the beginning.\” They beg us to ask, what was there before the Creation that made God want to do more? And the answer provided in the text is especially fitting for our own warring time: tohu va\’vohu, which Rabbi Samson Hirsch, the sensitive linguist, translates as: \”confused and tangled, and darkness was over the turmoil,\” just as we are now.

A Portion of Parshat Noah

Abby Gilad October 18, 2001

God gave Noah many instructions on how to build the ark. It took Noah 120 days to build it. The rabbis ask: \”Why did it take him so long?\” And the answer: \”God was giving Noah a chance to talk to his neighbors.\” The neighbors would come up to Noah and say: \”Why are you building this ark?\” And Noah was supposed to say: \”Because God is sending a flood to destroy all you wicked people.\” Chances are, many of the wicked people would have repented and been saved. But Noah was too shy to talk to his neighbors. And so, he built his ark, got into it and sailed away, while everyone else drowned.

17 Years Ago: Assassination

Rob Eshman October 18, 2001

I don\’t know that the assassination of Rechavam Ze\’evi changes the entire Middle East equation, as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Tuesday. England\’s Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a measured response, which struck many Israelis as laughable, considering the massive military force Britain and the United States have arrayed against the Taliban. It may be unfair that Israel must be constrained while America can pummel Afghanistan at will, but so it goes. There is so far no indication that President George W. Bush or our allies are going to let the Israeli minister\’s murder change their vision of how the war on terror should be waged, or how the post-war world should ultimately look.

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