The recent sex-abuse conviction of Rabbi Baruch Lanner for groping two teenage girls closed a highly disturbing chapter for the centrist Orthodox world. But it remains to be seen how deeply the controversy will transform the community.
Henryk Halkowski flops down in an armchair in the Klezmer Hois restaurant and orders a bowl of chicken soup with kreplach.
Middle East diplomacy shifted to New York this week amid widespread skepticism that there is any formula that can convince Israel and the Palestinians to make even slight progress toward peace.
In the reoccupied West Bank town of Hebron, an activist in Yasser Arafat\’s Al Fatah, a graduate of Israeli prisons, lamented the other day: \”I gave up my dream of the whole of Palestine for the sake of the Oslo accord. And what did I get? Corruption, no democracy, security services abusing and blackmailing our people. And now I\’m getting Israeli soldiers invading my town and the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to protect me.\”
In his editorial (\”Homeland Insecurity,\” July 12), Rob Eshman suggests that the availability of legal guns in the United States should be seen as a problem when considering Muslim terror.
The Shabbat after Tisha B\’Av is called Shabbat Nachamu, after the haftara that is read: \”Nachamu, nachamu ami\” (Be comforted, be comforted my people).
If you like babbling brooks and floating waterlilies, City of Hope probably has your idea of an interesting and unusual Saturday afternoon.
Eight-year-old Tamar\’s fingers dance across a set of harp strings like small waves rhythmically pounding the surf. While the large instrument dwarfs her, she doesn\’t seem to mind as she sits and plays a complicated classical tune. After the musical interlude, she hops onto her living room couch; her shiny dark hair bounces as she moves. Her bright smile reveals a missing front tooth with its adult counterpart just barely poking through.
\”What on earth is that?\” asks Jordan, a 27-year-old actor in Los Feliz.
He is staring at a dancing rabbi on a flatbed truck that is inching its way down Vermont Avenue, one of the main boulevards in Los Feliz.
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