Controversy over \”The Passion\” has swept through Jewish leadership circles, with the yet-to-be released film generating a discomfort and fear not found in the typical, sometimes difficult conversations that Jews have with non-Jews over contentious issues such as Israel.
\”The Pet Press is distributed to pet-related venues and many other places, including libraries, car washes and my favorite locations — Jewish delicatessens from Calabasas to Long Beach … and all points in between,\” Lori Golden said.
Of her conversion to Judaism, Laura Schlessinger said, \”I felt that I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end, and not feeling return, not feeling connected, not feeling that inspired. Trust me, I\’ve talked to rabbis, I\’ve read, I\’ve prayed, I\’ve agonized and I came to this place anyway — which is not exactly back to the beginning, but more in that direction than not.\”
Apparently dressed as an Orthodox Jew, the terrorist shoved his way among the many passengers — mostly ultra-Orthodox families returning from the Western Wall — to the center of the elongated bus, where he detonated the bomb he was carrying.
\”I gotta tell you,\” said Lenny Silberman, North American continental director of the JCC Maccabi Games, \”doing this for the games for 20 years and working with those communities, the potential for a big balagan [brouhaha] was definitely there.\”
Emma Klatman serves as the American Diabetes Association\’s (ADA) 2003-2004 national youth advocate. Her duties entail promoting research and public policies relating to diabetes, and visiting diabetes summer camps to involve other children in the fight against the disease.
Isabella Van Etten, 3, began her journey of learning to read before she was even born. \”I got a book when I was pregnant called \’Oh Baby, the Places You\’ll Go: A Book to Be Read in Utero,\’\” recalled the child\’s mother, Celeste Russi of Newbury Park.
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