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November 6, 2003

Beyond Despair

Rob Eshman November 6, 2003

Last September, in Khartoum, Sudan, a rumor surfaced that Westerners were going about town, shaking the hands of Muslims, and thereby causing the Muslim\’s penises to disappear. Really. This was reported in the Arabic language Al-Quds Al-Arabi and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (memri.org).\n\nThe rumor spread, mass hysteria ensued, hospital rooms filled with nervous men and police arrested some 40 foreigners on suspicion of sorcery. Only when the health minister publicly discredited the claims did quiet return to Khartoum, but not before a Sudanese columnist blamed the sorcery on \”an imperialist Zionist agent that was sent to prevent our people from procreating and multiplying.\”

All We Need to Know

Rabbi Zoë Klein November 6, 2003

Abram was despondent in his tent, deeply wearied from battle, having just returned from chasing kings from Dan to Damascus.

Abram had looked death in the eye and sat distraught over his own future. God listened to His friend\’s lament and then He took him outside and said, \”Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.\” And he added, \”So shall your offspring be\” (Genesis 15:5).

This verse is remarkable in many ways, and like every verse of Torah, it has an elixir of magic cleverly hidden in its heart, which we will together attempt to uncork.

Community Briefs

Jewish Journal November 6, 2003

Community Brief, news from around California, los angeles,United States.

Hispanic Tourists Top Israel Wish List

David Finnigan November 6, 2003

Israel\’s Ministry of Tourism, facing a 50 percent drop in tourism since the intifada began three years ago, is making an aggressive push into a fresh territory of potential new tourists: Hispanic Evangelical Christians.

Milken High Learns From Video Scandal

Julie Gruenbaum Fax November 6, 2003

Milken Community High School is facing a series of complex issues and emotions following the administration\’s discovery a few weeks ago that three students had filmed sexually explicit videos and then shared them with other students.

The three students, two boys and a girl in 10th and 11th grades, were expelled.

Just the Facts

Marc Ballon November 6, 2003

Turn on the television. Open the newspaper. Flip on the radio. The message, according to many Jews, is depressingly similar: Israel is bad; the West Bank and Gaza are good. Israel embodies the bully Goliath; Palestinians, the heroic David. Israel behaves like apartheid-era South Africa; Palestinians are the equivalent of modern-day black South Africans, subject to discrimination, humiliation or worse.

To combat those unflattering media portrayals, a group of prominent Jews has banded together to create Access|Middle East, a nonprofit that will soon launch a news-rich Web site designed to be a one-stop information source for foreign correspondents and editorial writers.

Writing the Book On Reading

Marc Ballon November 6, 2003

Seated before 21 third-graders at Selma Avenue Elementary School in Hollywood, actor Henry Winkler cracked open a copy of \”I Got a \’D\’ in Salami,\” a children\’s book he co-authored, and began reading. The \”Fonze,\” a little grayer and thicker around the middle than in his salad days, quickly won over his young audience, which giggled at his jokes and sat with rapt attention as he painted pictures with words.

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