Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
January 15, 2004
Community Brief, news from around California, los angeles,United States.
Category
January 15, 2004
Under the Circumstances
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
January 15, 2004
The great violinist, Itzhak Perlman, suffered from polio as a child and ever since has been in a wheelchair. On one occasion, while performing a violin concerto, one of the strings broke. It occurred in the very first movement with an audible ping. Everyone waited to see what he would do. With astonishing virtuosity, he continued as if nothing had happened, playing through to the finale using only the remaining three strings.
Two Cents Plain
Rob Eshman
January 15, 2004
Have you ever sat down in restaurant, scanned both sides of the menu, then flipped to the back hoping there\’d be another row of choices? That\’s how I\’ve felt after watching every Democratic debate of Campaign 2004. I\’m not particularly impressed with what\’s offered, but there\’s no column three.\n\n\”It would be kind of amusing,\” one long-time Democrat told me after the last debate, \”if it weren\’t so damned important.\”
Through the Minefield
Elizabeth Much
January 15, 2004
In the risky game of dating, perhaps the scariest of all scenarios is the separated suitor. With the divorce rate here in California at a whopping 60 percent, the reality is that most of us will encounter these fragile creatures. Do we run for the hills when they pursue us or should we take our chances and allow ourselves to succumb?
Mad People Disease
Richard H. Schwartz
January 15, 2004
In the Torah\’s story about Joseph, Pharaoh has a dream in which seven sickly cows consume seven healthy cows. Joseph interprets this, and Pharaoh\’s other dream of seven withered ears of corn consuming seven full ears of corn, to indicate that there will be seven years of plenty in Egypt followed by seven years of severe famine.
Muslim Hate Is Self-Inflicted Harm
Paul Kujawsky
January 15, 2004
The Arab and Iranian complaint that they are threatened and victimized by the Zionists is fascinatingly twisted. In fact, they do themselves considerable damage through their own anti-Semitism. Two recent examples come to mind.
Faith Holds Fast
Neil Steinberg
January 15, 2004
Almost every Friday afternoon for the last few months, I\’ve been visited at my office by a pair of young Chasidic Jews — high school students in big black hats and sporting the wispy beginnings of what I am certain will someday be fine beards.
Legacy of Questions Without Answers
Michal Lemberger
January 15, 2004
Lev Raphael, a child of survivors, clearly knows this well. His new novel, \”The German Money,\” tries to take on some of the questions that those who inherit the Holocaust must face. Raphael is also a mystery writer, so he is not only interested in recovering the past, but also in solving its mysteries. Because, as Faulkner implied, the past is always a mystery to us. We can never really know its truths. That\’s why it cannot die. There is too much for us to figure out.
Israel’s Sundance Pics Garner Praise
Tom Tugend
January 15, 2004
\”The Garden,\” which is having its world premiere at Sundance, tackles the unusual and unexplored problem of gay Palestinian teenagers, rejected by their own families, who cross the Green Line to work as male prostitutes in downtown Tel Aviv, in constant danger of deportation.
The Sound
Tom Tugend
January 15, 2004
Jazz icon Dave Brubeck says he wanted to construct a musical bridge between Jews and blacks in composing \”The Gates of Justice,\” a 50-minute oratorio celebrating the joint civil rights struggles of the two partners.\n\nA new CD recording of \”The Gates of Justice,\” will be released on Jan. 20, the day after the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
New Articles
Magen Am Expands: Strengthening Jewish Community Security in Orange County
Ayala Or-El
May 9, 2024
Who Does Yom HaZikaron Belong To?
Adina Feldman
May 9, 2024
Campus Watch May 9, 2024
Aaron Bandler
May 9, 2024
Food Memories – and Recipes – for Mother’s Day
Debra L. Eckerling
May 9, 2024
A G-d Squad and a Perfect Herby Salmon
Sharon Gomperts and Rachel Emquies Sheff
May 9, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.