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February 15, 2008

Finding the sacred in the mundane

Amy Klein February 15, 2008

Now, following the latest publishing craze of themed Jewish anthologies comes \”Bread and Fire: Jewish Women Find God in the Everyday\” (Urim Publications, 2008), edited by Rivkah Slonim (with consulting editor Liz Rosenberg). The 400-page compilation features writings from 60 women on topics including modesty, faith, childbirth, prayer, family, community, feminism and, in one way or another, Orthodox Judaism.

The hi-tech gadgets women need now!

Beth Levine February 15, 2008

Major manufacturers think that all they have to do is make the product pink to win us over. But, you won\’t find many women lost in a gooey haze over the latest inventions or upgrades until corporate America comes up with things that will make their lives simpler and easier. Herewith a catalog that would really make a gal swoon:

Perfidy along the East River’s West Bank

Neal Sher February 15, 2008

That the United Nations is hostile to Israel hardly comes as a surprise. The perfidy that permeates the house over which Kurt Waldheim once presided can be cut with a knife; Israel bashing has become an integral part of the culture of that body. Such duplicity does not appear from thin air — it must be nurtured and stoked by individuals who, by dint of impressive titles, can command international attention and influence public opinion and thus cause much mischief. That is particularly apparent today in Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.

Somebody had to make a start

Jud Newborn February 15, 2008

Feb. 18 marks the 65th anniversary of the Gestapo arrest of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose in 1943. Then, on Feb. 22, their swift beheading after a show trial in Munich by Hitler\’s \”Hanging Judge,\” Roland Freisler, who reviled them for daring to call their countrymen to action in the face of Nazi Germany\’s suspension of all civil rights and its mass murder of Europe\’s Jews.

Who is Roger Diamond?

David Suissa February 15, 2008

I got to know a quirky, passionate Los Angeles native who never dreamed he\’d become a counsel to skin merchants nationwide and the reviled bête noir of neighborhood groups everywhere.

We just disagree

Rob Eshman February 15, 2008

As I wrote here three weeks ago, I am a supporter of CAMERA and its mission. They do good work. But I believe they were taking the wrong tact in trying to tell a local church with a long history of support for Israel and Jewish causes whom it should and shouldn\’t listen to. CAMERA and I disagree on only one thing: tactics.\n

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