\”It was one of the most hilarious speeches I had ever heard,\” Bonham Carter recalled of Weiland\’s spiel. \”Afterwards Paul was absolutely mobbed with people who thought he should turn the story into a movie. And I asked if I could play his mum.\”
\”I think I have an interesting activity for us,\” my sister said. \”There\’s a guy out there who\’s got this laughter yoga thing going on.\”
\nHow does anyone say no to a \”laughter yoga thing\”?
His follow-up message, in response to my away-from-my-e-mail auto-reply, vibrated in my pocket during dinner, where no one else at my table had a clue what scandal had erupted. I stole a look at the screen, my transgression, I hoped, concealed by the tablecloth.
The existential reality of an Israeli context, where governmental decisions often have a life and death valence, has been brought home to millions of people these past few\nweeks
Maybe all the layoffs and buyouts have cut just a little too deeply into the newsroom, or Mr. Zell is purposely dumbing down his newspaper in hopes of making it more profitable
Parshat Masei (Numbers 33:1-36:13) With the recent on-court fracas of the WNBA, the historic presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton and the real potential for both parties to nominate a woman for vice president, it\’s probably worth our while to consider where we have been, where we are and where we may go in regard to gender equality, both in Torah and in our time
Thirty-six years on, Munich survivor Dan Alon still carries the scars of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, which he and four others escaped.
\”At the beginning, I didn\’t understand what that meant to have a syndrome,\” Manor said, speaking in Hebrew. \”Until then, I just thought of myself as a short girl.\”
Among the candidates for the $100,000 Teen Choice prize is Adam Sterling, a UCLA graduate raised in Oak Park who is now director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force
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