7 Days In Arts
Jewish Journal
March 27, 2003
Workmen celebrate women today (and tomorrow), as The Workmen\’s Circle/Arbeter Ring presents \”Rosa: A Play About Rosa Luxemburg.\”
Category
March 27, 2003
Why Keep Kosher?
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
March 27, 2003
What do cloven-hoofed cud-chewers have to do with ritual purity, much less holiness? In what way do fins and scales on a fish acknowledge God as the One who redeemed us from slavery? The \”explanation\” for kashrut demands further explanation.
State Fund to Keep Israel Investments
Buzzy Gordon
March 27, 2003
Campus activist groups — led by Arabs in Students for Justice in Palestine and Jews for a Free Palestine — had been gaining ground in their campaign for divestment from Israel, to the point where the UCLA Daily Bruin editorially endorsed divestment last July.
Battle for the Truth
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
March 27, 2003
Rabbi Mattis Weinberg, who founded Yeshivat Kerem in Santa Clara in the mid-1970s, counts as some of his strongest supporters — and detractors — former Kerem students and faculty members who now live in Los Angeles.
Made in Israel
Michael Aushenker
March 27, 2003
The marketing campaign was launched earlier this month in a collaboration by the Southern California Israel Chamber of Commerce, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the Government of Israel Economic Mission and the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute.
Crisis Manager
Marc Ballon
March 27, 2003
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, has known Nussbaum for seven years. He said the banker\’s efforts to coax Wells Fargo to pay the reparations reflect Nussbaum\’s deep commitment to Jewish values.
Stanley Hirsh, Journal Publisher, Dies at 76
Naomi Pfefferman
March 27, 2003
\”This was a really opinionated, obstinate guy,\” said Frank Maas, secretary of The Jewish Federation. \”And yet, he was the most generous man when he saw a person in trouble.\”
War Goes to School
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
March 27, 2003
While the media bombards Americans with images and stories of air strikes, wounded soldiers, POWs and the question of terrorism, teachers and administrators around the Southland are finding sensitive ways to teach students about the events without causing unneeded anxiety.
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