New Year, New Changes
Rob Eshman
September 2, 2004
Last week I was driving to a family celebration at Leisure World in Laguna Hills when I noticed something very odd about the weather: Fall was in the air.
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September 2, 2004
Once Upon a Kvetch
Naomi Pfefferman
September 2, 2004
While the Shlepperellas have earned good reviews for their humor, their beginnings weren\’t so funny. Back in 1991, a freaked-out Schilling-Gould, then the mother of 8-month-old twins, attended a mom\’s support group after learning she was expecting her third child.
Quiet Debut for ‘Passion’ DVD
David Finnigan
September 2, 2004
When Rabbi Harold Shulweis learned that the DVD of \”The Passion of the Christ,\” which debuted on Aug. 31, would be just a bare-bones, no-frills copy of Mel Gibson\’s controversial movie, the spiritual leader of Encino\’s Valley Beth Shalom said, \”That\’s very good. I don\’t think the Jewish community has to repeat, regurgitate, all the anguish, all the anger.\”
Did Feith Cross the Pro-Israel Line?
Leonard Fein
September 2, 2004
Intelligence sharing between America and Israel goes on at the highest levels and is remarkably intimate — but it is not, nor can it be supposed it ever will or even should be, complete.
From Durban to Beersheba
Harold Brackman
September 2, 2004
The horrid bus bombings in Beersheba on Tuesday, which claimed the lives of 16 Israelis, including a 3-year-old boy, are grim reminders that the war on terror continues to rage in Israel.
The Mickey Rule
Sam Shmikler
September 2, 2004
There seems to be an unwritten rule that states: \”If you are going through a convulsive experience, you ought to be open to those with equally or more compelling issues.\” Whatever happened to: \”Put your own mask on first, then, tighten the straps before you try to assist others\”?
Happy Campers
Rob Eshman
September 2, 2004
We are driving to pick up our son from camp. He\’s been there three weeks, the longest stretch he\’s been away from us since his birth.\n\nIn this age of e-mails and BlackBerrys and cell phones, the rule at Camp Alonim at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley is no e-mails, BlackBerrys or cell phones. He\’s sent us a few postcards home, clearly written by an 11-year-old who has put away childish things, like parents.\n\n\”Dear Family: We prayed and prayed and had havdalah end of story. Love, Adi. P.S. I love you. P.P.S. Tomorrow\’s our overnight and we\’re creating our own fire and no letters on Sunday.\”
Fear or Fury?
Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin
September 2, 2004
It\’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed. Almost one year ago to the day, Dr. David Appelbaum and his daughter, Nava, were murdered when a suicide bomber exploded himself at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Dr. Appelbaum, 50, was the head of emergency medicine at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, and was a rabbinical scholar to boot. He had treated countless victims of terror, Jewish and Arab patients alike. Nava, 20, was to be wed the next day. Alas, she never made it to her chuppah.
These are painful memories that we are tempted to shelve into the recesses of our distant memories. Yet we dare not, just as we dare not forget the holy martyrs of the Shoah and all other martyrs of our people\’s past.
The Arts
Sandee Brawarsky
September 2, 2004
In this collection of linked stories, the three figures at the center are a mother, father and son who leave Riga, Latvia, for Toronto, Canada. The stories are told from the point of view of the son, Mark Berman, who observes everything and helps interpret the New World for his parents.
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