Hello Jacobowsky!
Susan Josephs
November 3, 2005
Jerry Herman doesn\’t play favorites with his musicals. Ask him to rank \”Mame,\” \”Hello, Dolly!\” or \”La Cage aux Folles\” and he\’ll tell you, \”I love them all.\”
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November 3, 2005
Hitler’s Pope Story a Myth, Rabbi Finds
David Klinghoffer
November 3, 2005
In \”The Myth of Hitler\’s Pope,\” Rabbi David G. Dalin has written an important, frank and lucid defense of an unfairly maligned figure of recent history. Dalin\’s book clears up often-heard libels about the World War II papacy of Pius XII. It also provides an opportunity to reflect on the role those libels play in the wider cultural context.
Germany Deals With Dark Past on Screen
Tom Tugend
November 3, 2005
Sixty-seven years ago, on Nov. 9, 1938, Nazi-organized mobs burned and looted thousands of German synagogues and Jewish stores during Kristallnacht, the opening salvo of the coming extermination of European Jewry.
After the Miscarriage
Andrea Lesch Weiss
November 3, 2005
The pain and anguish of infertility has been passed down from matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Rachel to women today. But while our traditions have given us words to say and ways to act during other lifecycle events — death, birth, marriage — there is little guidance for how to help a friend or loved one deal with the loss of a pregnancy or the pain and despair of infertility.
Rosa Parks’ Message for Today
Leonard Fein
November 3, 2005
The moral — these many years later — is not immediately obvious. Yes, it\’s about what one person can do, but it is about much more than that. It\’s about leadership and about community organization
Tax Cuts Bring Shameful Silence
James D. Besser
November 3, 2005
This month House Republicans will try to wrap up work on proposals aimed at slowing the hemorrhage of red ink from federal budget ledgers while finding a way to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of hurricane relief and for two wars that don\’t seem about to end anytime soon.
A Surprise Might Attract More To Shuls
David Suissa
November 3, 2005
If there\’s one thing in marketing that piques interest, it\’s the element of surprise. For synagogues, however, this is easier said than done, because so much of a prayer service is based on repetition. And repetition itself has an emotional benefit: It makes us feel safe and comfortable.
Still Smarting
Amy Klein
November 3, 2005
Dowd\’s basic theory posits that \”The Rules\” — that once-silly guidebook on how to entrap a man, which is now read nonironically, as in The Torah of dating — was just the beginning.
Foul Mouths
Rob Eshman
November 3, 2005
Iran-Contra could make one believe that in Washington, D.C., it\’s not what you did, it\’s who you know. There was even an element of self-dealing on the part of the first President Bush, who set free insiders who would, as a result, never be tempted to disclose anything damaging about Bush\’s own record as vice president under Reagan.
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