The other refugees
David Suissa
April 24, 2008
Is there a more loaded word in the Arab-Israeli conflict than \”refugee\”
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Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
April 24, 2008
Winner of the Camera d\’Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, \”Jellyfish\” is another example of the remarkable cinematic explosion of Israeli films garnering
Local students go to lobby in D.C., seniors party at ‘senior prom’
Danielle Berrin
April 24, 2008
Local Students Lobby at the Capitol
A group of University Synagogue religious school students paid a springtime visit to Washington, D.C., where they
One day at a time, one person at a time
Roberto Loiederman
April 24, 2008
life-size soft sculpture of a cleaning woman scrubbing the floor marks the entrance to the office of Harriett Rossetto, founder and executive director of Beit T\’Shuvah
Drug abuse debate: Legalization, medication or therapy?
Roberto Loiederman
April 24, 2008
On a wall at Beit T\’Shuvah\’s sanctuary there are plaques with the names of those connected with Beit T\’Shuvah who have passed away. One of those names is that of Josh Lowenthal, a former resident who died on June 11, 1995
House of Repentance: Where no one is beyond redemption
Roberto Loiederman
April 24, 2008
In the small lobby, a teenage boy with blondish hair sits passively on a couch, staring at the wall, not reacting to the threats thrown his way. His mother, her face puffy from crying, pleads with her husband, the boy\’s enraged stepfather, who slams in and out of the building, furiously yelling that the boy stole his car and his money to buy drugs
Get ready to sing . . . Hatikvah!
Shoshana Lewin Fischer
April 24, 2008
In 1886, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia, wrote the words to Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah.\” Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, wrote the melody
Israeli invention could pave way for hydrogen cars
David Shamah
April 24, 2008
Everyone\’s heard that old story about the scientist who invents a \”magic pill\” that turns water into gasoline — with the invention eventually getting into the hands of the oil companies that bury it, fearing they will be driven out of business when word gets out about their competition
Segway inventor Dean Kamen brings his high-tech vision to Israel
Dina Kraft
April 24, 2008
Dean Kamen, the multimillionaire inventor renowned for the Segway personal transporter, traveled to Israel with a message for teenagers: Careers in science will help make them the rock stars of their generation
Status symbol
Esther D. Kustanowitz
April 24, 2008
Status used to be about social hierarchy — whether you made a good living or were born into the right family or had achieved prominence in your community. But these days, if you say the word \”status\” to Generation Single-and-Facebooking, you may be understood very differently
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