Silver screen love life
Roni Blau
February 23, 2007
The hardest challenge for me is staying open to possibilities and not shutting off my desires, even though they haven\’t yet come to fruition.
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February 23, 2007
Millions of Shoah records will finally be revealed
Edwin Black
February 23, 2007
Even though millions did not survive, much of their story did. The details are embedded within the miles of records housed by the International Tracing Service (ITS) located at Bad Arolsen, Germany.
Briefs: Palestinians riot near Jerusalem dig; Brandeis threatened with loss of donations
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February 23, 2007
Briefs
New congregations net results online
Sue Fishkoff
February 23, 2007
For dozens of new congregations and minyans, or prayer communities, like Ikar, the Internet is not just a faster, more convenient communication tool. It\’s a central organizing mechanism and community-building tool, filling the roles performed in more traditional synagogues by administrative staff, newsletters, membership committees, religious school, even rabbis.
Orthodox feminists make little progress on agunot
Ben Harris
February 23, 2007
The rhetoric on agunot contrasted sharply from that on other topics at the conference, where a sense of confidence bordering on the triumphant prevailed, owing to the substantial progress made in the decade since JOFA\’s founding.
Olmert-Rice-Abbas summit meets low expectations
Leslie Susser
February 23, 2007
What happens next will depend on how skillfully the parties maneuver in trying to advance their often disparate agendas.
Mobilize now against Iran and save the world
Natan Sharansky
February 23, 2007
We must recognize the fact that though sympathy for Iran\’s expressed goal of Israel\’s destruction is hardly mainstream, the idea of a world without Israel is more acceptable in polite company, the media and academia today than Hitler\’s expressed goal of a Europe without Jews was in 1939.
Death in the Hood
David Suissa
February 23, 2007
The service was heartfelt, but it was also unsettling. There was a kind of emotional chaos in the air — almost a reluctance to accept that a beautiful life could be taken away from someone so God-fearing and life-giving.
But what about Azerbaijan?
Rob Eshman
February 23, 2007
Iraq is a mess, a cauldron of intra-Islamic conflict. Afghanistan is heading down the same tragic path, as the Taliban assert greater fundamentalist control. All those Muslims are nuts, right?\n\nThen there\’s Azerbaijan.
A few Persian phrases that could come in handy, enshallah
Sara Shereen Bakhshian
February 23, 2007
A few phrases that could come in handy in conversation with Persian Jews.
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