Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
September 19, 2002
Birthright Israel hopes to send 1,000 participants this winter despite violence in the Middle East.
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September 19, 2002
Shifting Gears
Michael Aushenker
September 19, 2002
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
Get a CLUE to Help the Poor
Mike Levy
September 19, 2002
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
Hamilton High’s Sour Note
Ruth Andrew Ellenson
September 19, 2002
Most parents dream of having a school administrator like Jeff Kaufman.
Hahn’s Most Important Choice
Joel Kotkin
September 19, 2002
The Hahn administration, whose tenure has been marked by an often unnecessarily divisive campaign against secession, now faces a far more important decision: the choice of a new police chief.
Lions in Zion
Ari Z. Zivotofsky
September 19, 2002
It is not common for the mayor of Jerusalem to write to a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old. But it is similarly not the norm for them to write to him.
Star Stricken
Teresa Strasser
September 19, 2002
My ex-boyfriend is a star. Just when I thought he was securely fastened in my past, he is suddenly and jarringly in my present, whirring by me on the side of a bus, staring at me from the cover of TV Guide, cracking jokes on late night TV.
Happiness Happens
Rabbi Ron Shulman
September 19, 2002
Behind every meaningful practice stands its theory. This Shabbat we begin Sukkot, our eight-day festival of booths and thanksgiving during which we celebrate the wandering and journey of our ancestors from slavery to freedom.
Once More, With Feeling
Rob Eshman
September 19, 2002
While we Americans debate the cost and benefit of a war with Iraq, we American Jews must not kid ourselves: the second front in America\’s war against Iraq will be Tel Aviv, not Tarzana.
Onboard the RebbeSoul Train
Gaby Wenig
September 19, 2002
It\’s the fusion of world music, electronic tones, prayer samples, nature sounds and religious intensity that gives multi-instrumentalist RebbeSoul his edge in the world of contemporary Jewish music.
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