Some 2,000 needy families in the Israeli communities of Kiryat Malachi and Hof Ashkelon had a sweeter New Year thanks to the generosity of Orange County\’s Jewish community.
\”Having parents continue to learn is a great role model,\” said Mindy B. Davids, Beth Sholom\’s education director.
The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
The Torah Outreach Program, an independent Placentia-based nonprofit organization, will attempt to offer educational programs for unaffiliated Orange County Jews without the stigma of a denominational orientation.
In a backlash over synthetic drugs, the therapeutic use of botanical oils is enjoying a renaissance along with public acceptance of alternative medicine.
Every time I open my e-mail, I find material from one or two new Web sites devoted to Israeli hasbara (advocacy). I suspect that they have very little impact because, for the most part, they are preaching to the converted.
Even a year after Sept. 11, Americans still seem unprepared to see their way of life as under assault, according to Yehudit Barsky, director of the American Jewish Committee\’s (AJC) Middle East and international terrorism division.
Gehry is their dream pick to design the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews.
The 20th century was the bloodiest in human history. The names Hitler and Stalin are at the top of everyone\’s list as culprits who established this fact. Clothing that these individuals wore is priceless? There is an ironic, but historical, truth to this fact.
This address was given Sept. 17, 2002, at morning prayers at Harvard University\’s Memorial Church in Cambridge, Mass.
I speak with you today, not as president of [Harvard] University, but as a concerned member of our community, about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about — the issue of anti-Semitism.
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