\”My big idea for the CD was, \’Let\’s give this to our families for Chanukah,\’\” Hyams said. \”I never thought we\’d get a record deal, because I figured \’This is stupid and Jewish and no one cares except us.\’\”
More than 60 years have passed, yet French filmmakers are still wrestling with their country\’s less than heroic role under Nazi occupation during World War II.
It would be far healthier for American democracy, as well as for our community, if we would reject the use of Israel as a partisan issue and look at the policy areas where candidates from the two major parties truly do differ.
I\’ve known Sarah Palin since her election as governor in 2006. I am confident she will be a great friend of the Jewish community and Israel, as well as a terrific leader and great vice president
I used to think that between the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., and the birth of Israel in 1948, there was no such thing as an
\nexclusively Jewish city. Sure, there were plenty of Jewish ghettos and neighborhoods scattered throughout the globe, but a city with only Jews in it? I never imagined it.
This is not just a Jewish phenomenon, though a few thousand years of expecting to be scapegoated, persecuted, exiled or killed certainly contributes to the melancholic gene Jews are known for carrying, the optimism of a Ben-Gurion or Sandy Koufax notwithstanding.
Parshat Ki Teitze (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Wouldn\’t it be better to ban the practice of capturing women for marriage and to find a way to settle the differences of the rebellious son and his parents without using the electric chair?
Hollywood stars are due to turn out in force to celebrate Israel\’s 60th anniversary at a \”From Vision to Reality\” dinner and show on Sept. 18 at Paramount Studios
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