Rabbi vs. Rabbi
Last Monday night, shots were fired into the front window of the Living Judaism Center (LJC) in Marina del Rey and into a car belonging to center board member Harris Toibb.
Last Monday night, shots were fired into the front window of the Living Judaism Center (LJC) in Marina del Rey and into a car belonging to center board member Harris Toibb.
During the past year, Wolpe, the spiritual leader of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, has been both vilified and lauded for his Passover sermon in which he questioned the truth of the Book of Exodus, as most of his congregants, indeed most of the Jewish world, had come to know it.
The Kurdish father living in Sweden kills his daughter because she dishonored the family when she refused the marriage he arranged for her; Andrea Yates kills her children to spare them from her fundamentalist vision of Hell;
Looking 10 years down the road, I don\’t know whose control will yield the brighter future for the centers themselves and their current and future clients. Both organizations have promise and problems.
It\’s time to get everything in order. We need to clean out the old to make room for new beginnings.
Are the Ten Plagues merely a just reward perpetrated against the \”axis of evil\” by a God who is \”on our side\”?
American Jews have ever-changing opinions on peace in the Middle East, and even on the archvillain Yasser Arafat.