For Chana, the Festival of Lights had begun in personal disaster. She had just lit her first candle when her phone rang. It was Martin, the East Coast \”catch.\” Like her, Martin was modern Orthodox — observant, but game for a good movie. Last week had marked their second date. It was a shidduch, a brokered date. Martin had used a matchmaker to find Chana. Now he was using a cell phone to lose her.
Joseph\’s life is linked to dreams from his youth, and the way in which he responds to dreams reflects the level of his maturity.
Shlomo Eplboim sees green in the arid landscape that is Israel.
So confident is he of the Holy Land\’s future that the 30-year-old financial adviser has helped launch a new mutual fund that will invest solely in Israeli high-tech, health care, biotech and other companies.
William Bratton, newly appointed Los Angeles police chief, is off to Israel.
Gady Levy, the dean of continuing education at the University of Judaism, faces a question familiar to Broadway and Hollywood producers.
A local American Israeli family, which lost a daughter in an airport shooting rampage last July 4, is in renewed mourning for a son who died Nov. 26 following a car accident.
With its initial goal accomplished, the Shoah Foundation faces two mammoth tasks, one short-term, the other for the indefinite future.
Prior to the Shoah Foundation\’s annual banquet on Dec. 5, Contributing Editor Tom Tugend conducted an e-mail interview with its founder, director Steven Spielberg.
Despite two years of relentless Palestinian terrorism that has claimed nearly 700 Israeli lives, last week\’s coordinated attacks on Israeli targets in Kenya are being seen as a watershed: They herald Israel\’s full-blown entry into the global war against terrorism, according to defense sources.
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