Kosher Dog Days of Summer
Adam Wills
June 19, 2003
A sunny day at Dodger Stadium; Shawn Green at bat. What could be more enjoyable than a cold beer and a kosher hot dog?
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June 19, 2003
Plan Seeks to Draw Potential Jews
Tom Tugend
June 19, 2003
When Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis asked a group of approximately 80 retirees in his Conservative congregation how many had a non-Jewish member in their family, almost every hand shot up.
Kids Page
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2003
You know that harmless-looking body part inside your mouth? The tongue? It sure looks nice enough, but it gets a lot of Israelites into trouble in this week\’s parsha.
Schools Adopt Guide to Block Sex Abuse
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
June 19, 2003
A national group representing more than 700 Orthodox day schools recently adopted sexual abuse prevention guidelines that were developed by a department of the Jewish Family Service (JFS) in Los Angeles.
The Greatest Good
Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom
June 19, 2003
The most exciting weeknight in our house is Thursday; our family eats a hasty dinner and I rush off, two or three children in tow, to Tomchei Shabbos.
Is America Ready for a Jewish President?
Mel Levine
June 19, 2003
Because of our history, American Jews have had reason to worry about anti-Semitism and scapegoating, but we have also worked to break down barrier after barrier in virtually every aspect of American life.
Today, we have the opportunity to break down perhaps the most important barrier: that a Jew cannot be elected president of the United States. And ironically, the skepticism on this issue comes not from non-Jews but from Jews.
An Unorthodox View of Who’s Orthodox
David Suissa
June 19, 2003
I want to respond to my observant friends who have asked me to answer this question: What can they take from a Jew who doesn\’t believe the Torah is the word of God and who feels no need or obligation to follow His commandments? What can they take from that \”truth\”?
Sound of Silence
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
June 19, 2003
It suddenly occurred to me that the Holocaust was an attempted silencing of the Jews. While World War II was decades ago — and the camps were liberated — the quiet lingers. We\’re so far away from it all in the United States. In Poland, the wounds are still raw and it isn\’t something that the locals are comfortable talking about.
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