The Whole Kingdom
Gaby Wenig
February 27, 2003
When Ahuva Goldstein attended Yeshiva Rav Isacsohn Torath Emeth in 1960, she had five students in her sixth-grade class.
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February 27, 2003
In Search of Moderate Muslims
Gary Rosenblatt
February 27, 2003
Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Islamic law at UCLA, estimates that two years ago he received between 30 and 40 requests from around the country to participate in interfaith dialogues between Jews and Muslims.
Last year he received just one.
\”They just vanished,\” he said during an interview. \”Such invitations are a barometer of the level of dialogue, though my experience may not be representative because of my own idiosyncrasies.\”
Lecture Stirs Anger
Tom Tugend
February 27, 2003
A public lecture by a visiting scholar on the UCLA campus usually doesn\’t make much of a ripple, but nearly all of the 1,800 seats in Royce Hall were taken and the atmosphere was electric when professor Edward W. Said stepped up to the lectern.
Education Briefs
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2003
Education Brief, news regarding education from around the United States.\n\n
Alternatives to Drugs
Rabbi Eli Hecht
February 27, 2003
\”The world exists only because of the innocent breath of schoolchildren,\” attributed to Jewish sages, first century Talmud.
Culture Shot
Michael Aushenker
February 27, 2003
The Filipino owners of an Asian restaurant at work. A glimpse of Thai worshippers praying inside a Buddhist temple. A man perusing an\nArmenian bookstore.
Opening a Window
Marc Ballon
February 27, 2003
Thousands of Israeli students are learning what it means to be good Jews.
‘JAM’-packed Campus Outreach
Rachel Brand
February 27, 2003
It\’s not unusual to see 60 students cramming into an nonairconditioned duplex on fraternity row on a Saturday night at UCLA — unless
those students happen to be surrounding a havdalah candle singing Hebrew songs.
The Camp Quest
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
February 27, 2003
While the summer is still a good four months away, the race to register for Jewish overnight camp has already kicked into high gear.
A Wish Is Granted
Marc Ballon
February 27, 2003
NORCs have cropped up around the country, with an estimated 5,000 now dotting the U.S. As the population grays — an estimated 75 million Americans will be over 55 in 2010 — the number of NORCs is expected to jump, said Andrew Kochera, senior policy advisor at AARP in Washington.
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