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December 7, 2007
JDub worldwide concerts add synergy to the season
The buzzword in business circles is synergy. That\’s what JDub Records was looking for when it began to think about its third annual Chanukah event.
And when Daniel Brenner, vice president for education at the Birthright Israel Foundation, told JDub heads Aaron Bisman and Jacob Harris that he was interested in doing a project with the nonprofit music label, the buzz of synergy filled the air.
Book captures before and after of Israel’s Ethiopian Jews
A woman of biblical beauty, a dark-eyed Ethiopian gazing directly at the camera, appears on the cover of a new book of photographs, \”Transformations: From Ethiopia to Israel\” by Ricki Rosen (Reality Check Productions, $45). She\’s wearing white embroidered robes, her hair covered with a kerchief. Flip to the back cover and fast forward 13 years, and the woman, with the hint of a smile, is dressed fashionably in an orange sweater, her hair falling loosely in tiny braids.
Reitman follows heart to quirky ‘Juno’
When Jason Reitman decided to become a filmmaker, he was not only following the path of his father, producer-director Ivan Reitman, but that of his heritage as well.
\”I think Jewish people are great storytellers,\” the 30 year-old film director said. \”Celebrating our heritage and our holidays has so much to do to with storytelling. We\’ve survived so long, partly on our ability to tell stories. I love to make people laugh, and I\’ve always had an attraction to telling stories.\”
Serenity now — inside and out
Breathe.
Yes, take a breath.
\”One, long deliberate breath that you feel from the very beginning of it until the end of it. Try it, really. You can do it with your eyes open. You can do it while reading these instructions. Do you notice that you can feel your body, and especially your chest expanding and relaxing to accommodate the air flowing in and out, without stopping reading?\”
New kind of mikveh washes off ritual’s negative image
\”I\’m pretty much your classic disaffected Gen-X kind of gal. I have too many shoes, I work too hard, I\’m cynical, I\’m broke. So when it came time for me to immerse before my wedding, I figured I\’d bring some friends, we\’d hang out, I\’d get wet, we\’d go eat, and that would be the end of it.\”
Constitution trumps all for ‘house Bolshevik’ Einhorn
In 1992, Bruce J. Einhorn was known as a staunch Zionist and had also served as a national commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League. So when, as a relatively new immigration judge, he was assigned to oversee a five-year-old case to deport two Southern California men sympathetic to a radical offshoot of the PLO, his selection was an immediate concern for the defense.
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