As soon as word spread about last month\’s $45 million gift to Jewish day schools in Boston, one question arose for parents and educators around the city: What about Los Angeles?
Yasser, it\’s not like we hardly knew ye. We knew ye all too well.
We are in kickoff month for the \’05 divorced model year.
Political analysts agree on one thing: The Nov. 2, 2004, California congressional and state legislative elections were the most anti-demo-cratic and frightening results yet of the so-called \”safe seats\” scheme, in which the winners are known long before Election Day.
I should have known better than to forward an e-mail recommending a boycott of French products for France\’s anti-Israel stance and willingness to tend to Yasser Arafat on his deathbed.
We have been bombarded with the phrase \”moral values\” ever since it was announced that 22 percent of voters cited it as the single most important consideration in the 2004 election. Not Iraq, not terrorism, not the economy.
What books must every Jew read? What books are critical to informing your understanding of your faith, your culture, your people? With this issue, The Jewish Journal introduces a new weekly column: My Jewish Library.
What is a friend? When I was a kid, the requirements were none too stringent. Is he in my class? Can I ride my bicycle to his house? Do his parents have any insane \”not too much candy before dinner\” rules?
As I got older, other factors became more important. Do we root for the same team? Are we willing to lie to our parents for each other? Does he have a bong?
Now that I\’m one half of a couple (actually, 49 percent when it comes to decision making, 51 percent when it comes to heavy lifting) friendship is trickier. Are our children the same age? Do our families have comparable incomes? Do they have a bong?
In a new book, \”Into Kokerboom Country: Namaqualand\’s Jewish Pioneers,\” authors Phyllis Jowell and Adrienne Folb tell the story of these Jews from their arrival in the northwestern Cape to the late 1970s, when the community had dwindled to a precious few.
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