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February 8, 2008

Obligation or choice?

Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky February 8, 2008

Parshat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)

Were contributions toward the building of the Tabernacle voluntary or compulsory? Those of us who have stood before our communities during a building campaign have always tended to favor the latter option, as this makes for a more effective appeal. But the classical commentaries on the Torah — presumably more objective in their approach to the question — are rather evenly divided on it.

Gap grows between Orthodox and others

Jacob Berkman February 8, 2008

The growing ideological gap between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox threatens the long-term unity of the Jewish people, several communal leaders said at a forum to address the matter.

At issue were the results of a survey conducted in November by the American Jewish Committee (AJCommittee), which found widening differences between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox on a range of issues.

The Jan. 31 forum convened by the AJC and the Orthodox Union (OU) also included leaders of the Reform movement.

Briefs: Sderot — the missiles keep coming; Dimona terror bomb kills one Israeli

Jewish Journal February 8, 2008

Qassams Hit Two Sderot Factories\n\nPalestinians launched rockets from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel Tuesday. One went through the roof of a factory in Sderot\’s industrial zone. The other hit a container of diesel but did not explode.\n\nMembers of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas\’ Fatah movement, as well as the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were in response to the killing of a senior PRC leader by Israeli forces Monday.

Barak stays after Winograd Report, Olmert survives

Leslie Susser February 8, 2008

After the long-awaited final report of the Winograd Commission of inquiry into the Second Lebanon War was published last week, all eyes turned toward Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

Barak, the Labor Party leader, was the one man whose withdrawal of his party from the governing coalition could topple Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose wartime performance was the subject of much criticism in the report.

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