Playwright’s Alter Ego Returns Home
Naomi Pfefferman
September 9, 2004
For Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, "Brooklyn Boy" represents both a return and a departure.
Category
September 9, 2004
B’nai Mitzvah for the Young at Heart
Andrea Adelson
September 9, 2004
Last February, a class of 17 retirees jumped at the chance to pursue a Jewish rite of passage bypassed in their youth by circumstance or cultural rigidity.
More Meaning, Less Material
Rabbi Jack Riemer
September 9, 2004
\”Danny Siegel\’s Bar and Bat Mitzvah Book: A Practical Guide for Changing the World Through Your Simcha,\” by Danny Siegel (The Town House Press, $12). This is a book that we have long needed.
7 Days In Arts
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2004
The \”Los Angeles International Short Film Festival\” continues at the ArcLight with a screening of \”Tel Aviv.\”
A Mother’s Reward
Phyllis Folb
September 9, 2004
Normally, a parent might agonize over her teen\’s decision to defer her freshman year of college. But when my 18-year-old daughter Lauren left recently on a flight to Israel — deferring her first year at college for yet a second time — I was thrilled.
Chabad: To Change But Not Be Changed
Michael Berenbaum
September 9, 2004
The Chabad telethon is an appropriate occasion to consider one of the anomalies of contemporary American Jewish religious life.
Iran Missiles Graver Security Threat Than ‘Spy’
Nooredin Abedian
September 9, 2004
The building tempest surrounding Israel, the United States, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and allegations of spying shouldn\’t obscure the real problem at the root of it all: Iran\’s WMDs.
Secular Connection
Evan Marc Katz
September 9, 2004
I fell in love with a brilliant, attractive and witty Filipina woman last year. She was a fallen Catholic, didn\’t accept Jesus as her savior and was totally cool with raising kids Jewish.
Spy vs. Spy
Rob Eshman
September 9, 2004
Over the past few weeks, as the anniversary of Sept. 11 approached, the FBI and the Department of Justice, along with investigative reporters at CBS, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, have focused their resources on what they must figure is a real threat to American security: the folks at AIPAC.
Age of Amusement
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
September 9, 2004
A gentleman died and his family asked me to officiate his funeral.
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