Screenwriting — the good news and the bad; Rev. John Hagee calls Jesus ‘a Reform rabbi’
Danielle Berrin
March 21, 2008
Circuit briefs.
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March 21, 2008
Once we were killers in Shushan, and other points of view
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2008
Letters to the Editor.
Math wiz clowns around to ‘serve God with joy’
Amy Klein
March 21, 2008
Yehuda Braunstein wasn\’t one of those kids whose childhood aspirations (to be a fireman, astronaut, actor) never came true. Even though he studied to be a mathematician at MIT and earned a doctorate at UC San Diego, and he also became religiously observant — a ba\’al teshuvah, through Chabad. Now, at 39, he\’s a mathematician, an active Chabad member — and a clown.
The world according to Mort Sahl and friends
Tom Tugend
March 21, 2008
Half a century after Mort Sahl packed in Berkeley undergrads and hip San Franciscans at the hungry i nightclub, the man who revolutionized stand-up comedy hasn\’t mellowed.\n
Israel and its relationship to the Shoah
Michael Berenbaum
March 21, 2008
Did Israel attempt to address the problems uncovered by the Jewish condition in the Holocaust? Absolutely and surprisingly successfully. However, it has neither ended Jewish vulnerability nor achieved normalcy for the Jewish people, something that does not surprise religious Jews but astonishes secular ones. At 60, it has not — or at least not yet — achieved the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations. That will have to be the achievement of the succeeding generation.
Briefs: Obama condemns pastor’s politics, Merkel addresses Knesset
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2008
News briefs.
Certifying kosher food in China keeping rabbis busy
Alison Klayman
March 21, 2008
With the kosher certification of more than 300 food factories in China, each producing multiple products, America\’s largest kosher-certification company, the Orthodox Union (OU), has more than doubled the number of certifications it does in China just in the past two years.
Letter from Jerusalem
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
March 21, 2008
Condolence visits are part of a rabbi\’s life, but no one ever taught us how to make nine visits in a 48-hour period. We arrived in Israel on the morning of Tuesday, March 11, and left Israel the following night. Our mission, representing the Rabbinical Council of America, was to express solidarity with the families of the victims of the terror attack at yeshivat Mercaz Harav, comfort the injured in the hospitals and visit the yeshiva.
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