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July 17, 2008
Israel’s Hazon Yeshaya means meal in many languages
More than 10,000 people come to Hazon Yeshaya every year to help assist the poor in Israel
Donors push Bar-Ilan to head of the class
\”I wish I had 10 percent of the success with the Israeli government as I have with private donors,\” sighed Moshe Kaveh, the president of Bar-Ilan University.
Briefs: Ahmadinejad to attend U.N. summit, Obama to visit PA, Israel
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans again to attend this year\’s summit at the United Nations in New York. His speech, Ahmadinejad said, will discuss \”ruling the world based on justice.\”\n\n
Freshly-ordained Ugandan rabbi gets ball rolling on returning home
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, the first black sub-Saharan rabbi ordained at an American rabbinical school, has had a very busy time since returning to Uganda in June, after not having lived there for five years.
Fear of an Obama Planet grips some Americans
As soon as I saw The New Yorker cover spoofing right-wing fear mongering over Barack and Michelle Obama, my first thought was that my friend, Sanjay, in Mumbai, India, had a point about Americans and stupidity.
Q&A with showbiz power broker Irv Weintraub: Why doesn’t Hollywood give Jewish?
\” . . . We have one thing that\’s not happening now that happened then, which was the memory of the Holocaust. We are 50-plus years removed. The urgency that existed then doesn\’t exist today. The Federation campaign did better with Lou Wasserman — people didn\’t tell him no. There isn\’t that iconic person like Lou who is willing to be identified publicly with their Judaism . . .\”
Kaplan, Eshman, Carlin and Tom
\” . . . Yes, there are times when it is a judgment call and a good one to make: Carlin was the exception to the rule. Though he was not Jewish, he was Jewish enough to be included in The Jewish Journal. I enjoyed the article . . .\”
New kosher cooking school steps up to the plate — and that’s not chopped liver!
Last week, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts opened in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Flatbush. The $4,500, six-week intensive course, run in cooperation with the continuing education department of Kingsborough Community College, is the only professional kosher cooking school in North America.
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