You have to hand it to those Presbyterians. Their leaders know what they want, and they won\’t be deflected by things like logic, fairness or the well-being of people in the Middle East.
Temple Shalom for the Arts has a little part of its soul in Los Angeles gospel, when the independent congregation will host the pre-Passover Shared Heritage of Freedom service at the Wilshire Theatre on April 15.
I confess that most of my childhood Passover memories have nothing to do with the Passover story itself. How could they when seders were family dramas enacted against a backdrop of matzah and gefilte fish? Like most American Jewish kids, I started out observing the proceedings from a card table, fidgeting while the grown-ups read from the haggadah.
Now that it has been \”formally put to death and buried,\” as one of its grantees told me, I feel free to speak out about the Joshua Venture, a supposed breakthrough organization, subsidizing the ideas of nonprofit professionals who will be leading the next generation of Jewish life.
President Bush has proposed the biggest transfer of wealth in history. He plans to use trillions of dollars in contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and other administration spending priorities.
Passover, now upon us, apart from being an occasion for family reunions and indigestion is the right time for a more serious activity:
I mean, reflecting on the claim that our religion is highly rational and even the claim that Judaism is \”true.\”
Far from being ethnic chest thumping, this assertion of truth can be defended with a straight face.
The other day, it suddenly hit me. I\’m the anti-Forrest Gump.
The first thing I noticed when entering Noam Neusner\’s office in Washington, D.C. was the president\’s dog.
The message is a universal one and it is directed to all mankind. How much better would the world be if we looked at people and thought first of what we have in common with us instead of analyzing how they differ from and are therefore inferior to us?
\”There\’s been some small movement in the Jewish community toward the Republicans, but nothing really dramatic,\” said Stuart Rothenberg, an independent political analyst.
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