Rosenfield started out collecting donations for one caseworker from the Department of Children and Family Service, and found she was so successful at motivating people to give that she adopted another caseworker a year later. Before long the former personnel manager had adopted the entire North Hollywood office.
\”It is hard to convey the special sense of respect, dignity and approbation that can be conveyed by calling someone \’a real mensch,\’\” writes Leo Rosten in \”The Joys of Yiddish.\” The Yiddish word infuses the basic German denotation — \”person\” — with an almost indefinable connotation. A mensch is a person who is upright, honorable, decent, as Rosten writes, a person to admire and emulate.
YeLAdim will be mixing it up next year with more movies, books, music and TV reviews than ever before.
\”God has a to-do list for you,\” the book opens. \”You are God\’s partner. God needs you to continue the ongoing creation of the world.\”
It\’s my opinion that none of us who are single at 40 are rocket scientists at love (or we wouldn\’t be so uncomfortably solitary in the first place), so drawing the weird requires a little seaside introspection, a new charting of the waves and a definite refocusing of the ship\’s trajectory.
Laura has never spoken a word, but she can coo, laugh, sigh and cry. At her best, she has taken steps with the help of a walker. She has a thin body with a smallish, sweet face framed by dark-brown hair. She gets 24-hour home care, with three rotating nurses monitoring her breathing and other vital signs.\n\nOh yeah, and she loves to smile.
This is the second year The Jewish Journal has compiled a list of our \”Top Ten Mensches.\” Let other magazines slobber over the 50 Sexiest or the 400 Richest or the 20 Most Influential. Rich, sexy and powerful are easy. Mensch is hard.
President Bush made a point of going around the table and greeting each of us personally before the \”formal\” meeting began. But herein lies the curious part. There really was no formal meeting.
Why is Ahmadinejad pursuing this foolish crusade against the Holocaust? After all, even he must know that the Holocaust is one of the most documented events in human history and, hence, that denying its reality or even questioning its magnitude and significance is likely to end up in embarrassment. Why then is he so insistent?
Leaders on both sides are optimistic. They see Olmert\’s moves as part of a new and wider American plan for Israeli-Palestinian accommodation.
