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May 27, 2004

Danger Lurking in U.S.-Israel Linkage

James D. Besser May 27, 2004

Israel and the United States have more in common than ever as both nations fight the terror scourge. That\’s good news, but Jewish leaders would be wise not to get smug about it.

The war in Iraq could produce a sharp public backlash against U.S. involvement — in that particular conflict and in a region that is hard on traditional American naivete. And that backlash could taint U.S.-Israel relations if the public links failed U.S. policies with Israel.

Barbaric Acts Kill Palestinian Sympathy

Larry Derfner May 27, 2004

know there are many Palestinians out there who are sickened and ashamed by what happened in Gaza to the remains of the six dead Israeli soldiers.

I don\’t hold them responsible; I don\’t associate them with those acts just because they are Palestinians or Arabs, not in any way.

In fact, I think it\’s important now to remember Arabs like the Palestinian man who drowned in the Sea of Galilee a couple of years ago trying to save a drowning Israeli boy. I remember a Jaffa Arab who was killed in 1992, I think, trying to stop a wild man from Gaza who was slashing at Jewish children with a saber.

The Attack on Secularism

Cathy Young May 27, 2004

The new book \”Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism\” (Metropolitan Books), by writer and social critic Susan Jacoby, is a historical work but it is also an unabashed polemic on an acutely topical issue: the role of religion in public life in modern-day America. I

Like a Jew in a Bagel Store

Carin Davis May 27, 2004

I\’m no longer a virgin. To Israel, that is. This single babe just returned from her maiden voyage to the land of milk and honey. And all I can say is — there were a lot of honeys. Jewish men everywhere.

In the restaurants, on the streets, in the shops — I didn\’t know where to flirt first. Forget a kid in a candy store, I was like a Jew in a bagel store. I\’ll take a dozen — hot ones if you have them. Israel is a single Jewish girl\’s fantasy.

Face to Face

Rob Eshman May 27, 2004

Before he was the Buddha, or Enlightened One, Prince Siddhartha lived a luxurious life behind the walls of his family castle. But each time he ventured out, the legend goes, he discovered the lame, the halt, the dying. His squire, Chandara, convinced him to ignore such things, as the world was full of suffering. Then his wife gave birth, and Siddhartha, at 29, was struck by the inexplicable mysteries of life and death. Late one night, he kissed his sleeping wife and newborn son goodbye and wandered out of the palace with Chandara to find the answer to how one overcomes sufferin

Holy Doubt

Reb Mimi Feigelson May 27, 2004

Rabbi Elie Spitz wrote a wonderful book, titled \”Does the Soul Survive?,\” dealing with life after death, but for me this title is the question that I continuously ask in regard to life after birth.

Community Briefs

Jewish Journal May 27, 2004

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

Holocaust Museum to Reopen Doors

Tom Tugend May 27, 2004

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMH), dubbed the \”Wandering Jew of the Community\” by one survivor, has lost one more rented home, found interim shelter in another, but is dreaming of a permanent place of its own.\n\nLed by a self-described \”quixotic\” physician as chairman and a feisty executive director, the museum is fighting tenaciously for its survival and insists that it fulfills a needed mission in Los Angeles and in Holocaust education.

The new face of Russian Jewry

Lea Silverman May 27, 2004

When Tatyana Sharfman applied to immigrate to the United States, she was not yet sure that she wanted to leave her native country of Russia. Her aunt, who had left Russia in 1992 and now lives in the San Fernando Valley, was determined to bring over the rest of the family, and so Sharfman began to fill out the necessary documents.

\”She kept asking us, \’What are you doing over there?\’\” Sharfman recalled. \”We didn\’t take it seriously, really, but we filled out some papers just because we had these papers.\”

Sharfman knew that it was typically a long process to emigrate from Russia, and she did not really expect to be accepted. However, one day the approved documents were returned by the government, and her family faced a life-changing decision: \”To come or not to come?\”

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