When B\’nai B\’rith International needs a headliner to attract people to a fundraising dinner, it knows where to turn.When B\’nai B\’rith International needs a headliner to attract people to a fundraising dinner, it knows where to turn.
Jack Benny will be honored this weekend at a convention, \”39 Forever,\” sponsored by the International Jack Benny Fan Club and the National Comedy Hall of Fame.
Dara Horn wrote an exuberant scene in her stunning debut novel, \”In the Image,\” upon returning to her dreary garret flat during a year abroad in 1999. \”I\’d been to this dismal British market in which an entire aisle was devoted to butter and fats,\” the ebullient Horn, 25, said animatedly. \”I recall a product called \’beef drippings.\’ The produce was wilting. All the milk was expired yesterday. I was very homesick.\”
Neil Simon has always laced his plays with aspects of his own life and, at age 75, he takes on mortality — specifically the mortality of a creative writer — in \”Rose and Walsh.\”
A group of Sephardic, Chasidic, Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist, unaffiliated, atheist, right- and left-wing Jews were gathered at a private dinner — and no one had to call security.
Should American Jews support U.S. military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power?
The media has been busy for months with \”One People, Two Worlds\” (Schocken Books, 2002), the book I co-authored with Ammie
Hirsch, and the promotional tour from which I withdrew after two appearances in deference to the Council of Torah Sages.
I have no dating advice. None. I won\’t suggest clever phrasing for your personal ad or how to choose a photo to post on JDate. I\’m not an expert on any of these things, but without bragging, I will admit I\’m truly excellent at one thing: how not to date.
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