In 1978, when I first applied to college, I didn\’t know what I wanted to study as an undergraduate. I left the space blank on the college application form where I was supposed to indicate an intended major. Someone in the admissions office, based on my grade point average and my achievement test scores, took the liberty and placed me in a major called leisure studies.
July 31 was the last day of Ulpan, the six-week Hebrew class at Jerusalem\’s Hebrew University\’s Rothberg School for Overseas Students.
David Kosak, a 35-year-old rabbinical student from the University of Judaism, was lunching with classmates at Hebrew University\’s Frank Sinatra cafeteria on Wednesday when the bomber struck.
In the particular historical consciousness of the Jewish people, there has always been a familiarity with \”jihad\” as representative of an Islamic method of conquering populations by means of the sword.
While so much of daily life in Israel has changed — or stopped — due to the security situation, life does go on: children celebrate birthdays, teenagers become b\’nei mitzvah and couples marry.
When two friends who are torn apart by the Holocaust discover nearly 40 years later that they live in the same New York neighborhood, some would call it "coincidence."
For their master\’s project, the women created a bereavement Web site, where those who are grieving are able to find the resources available to them in the community to help them through their dark periods.
Hoping to capitalize on President Bush\’s support of Israel, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) revived its local chapter.
It seems Arabs and Jews in can agree on one thing at least — a touch of resentment toward East Coast \”national\” organization headquarters.
A grant of $120,000 over three years from the newly established PIMCO Foundation will help Orange County\’s Jewish Family Service (JFS) expand its services to about 45 elderly Holocaust survivors who reside locally.
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