Quran verses for peace; Davening at Aishhh; Amy Klein’s ‘first-rate compelling journalism’
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November 22, 2006
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November 22, 2006
Local Couple Secures Pope’s Personal Blessing of Crucifix for Ailing Catholic Friend
Norma Zager
November 22, 2006
Civic activists and philanthropists Faith and Jonathan Cookler recently returned from an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Leadership Mission led by Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, to meet with political, religious and community leaders in Rome, Paris (where Foxman was presented with the Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac) and Berlin.
Olmert Promises Students: Iran ‘Danger Will Be Removed;’ Sderot Children’s Heartfelt Drawings Come t
Jewish Journal
November 22, 2006
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Too cute: The Moscow Cats Theater
Robert David Jaffee
November 22, 2006
They climb a rope upside down. They scale a pole 15 feet high. They leap through an obstacle course.It\’s not boot camp at Camp Pendleton. It\’s the Moscow Cats Theater, whose lead performers, 30 or so felines, are not deprived of sleep and not subjected to verbal abuse like Marines in basic training.
Films: Interfaith marriage wrong fit for ‘Pajamas’ director
Steven Rosen
November 22, 2006
It would be easy to assume that director-writer Jeff Lipsky, whose \”Flannel Pajamas\” intimately chronicles the arduous rise and tragic fall of a Jewish man\’s marriage to a Catholic woman, is a relative newcomer to independent film. After all, this is but his second movie. His first, 1997\’s \”Childhood\’s End,\” was a little-seen coming-of-age story about several young people in Minneapolis. But Lipsky actually is one of the most important names in the indie world. Just not as a director. Not yet, anyway.
Judith: The woman warrior who brought down a general
Robert David Jaffee
November 22, 2006
Arabian rugs and pillows are spread out in a tent as Holofernes, the general of the Assyrians, plots his victory over the Israelites. Wearing a tunic, he speaks lines of great beauty: \”I am overcome with wonder, trembling with a terrible infatuation.\” He is speaking of war, yet he might be anticipating the woman who will take him to bed later in the evening.That woman, the eponymous star of \”Judith: A Parting From the Body,\” resuming its run at the Theater of NOTE on Nov. 30, is the Jewish heroine known to readers of the Apocrypha.
missFlag shuns politics for love in Israel’s indie rock scene
Karla S. Blume
November 22, 2006
missFlag, an up-and-coming indie band from Israel, hopes to receive some special attention of its own when it makes its first stab at securing a place in the history of commercial pop music success stories.
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