My So-Called Jewish Life
Brad A. Greenberg
July 23, 2009
Should I tell him I’m not a Jew? I wondered this over and over as I sat in the Cal State Long Beach office of academia’s leading anti-Semite.
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July 23, 2009
California Quagmire
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2009
Quagmire — a difficult or precarious situation from which extrication is almost impossible.
Are We There Yet?
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
July 23, 2009
When I was an undergraduate, Princeton celebrated the 10-year anniversary of co-education. A T-shirt sold on campus announced: “Ten years of women at Princeton!” Below, in smaller print, it read: “Too bad it took over 200 years.”
Shuls Step Up Too
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
July 23, 2009
Congregants come into Rabbi Laura Geller’s office at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills on a regular basis nowadays to share their struggles of lost jobs, homes on the brink of foreclosure and families under unprecedented stress. And she is determined not only to help them, but to make them understand that they are not alone.
When The Going Gets Tough, Where Do You Go?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
July 23, 2009
Annette Klein opens the door to her mid-Wilshire duplex and excuses herself to finish getting ready for a weekend in Newport Beach with her 6-year-old daughter. She starts talking, asking tons of questions and reminiscing about vacations she used to take when she was at the top of the entertainment industry. Her home, her movements, her New York cadence and confidence make clear she is a woman accustomed to success.
Bet Tzedek Wins Pro Bono Award
Tom Tugend
July 23, 2009
When some “2,500 young and fashionable professionals” dance this Saturday night during the Bet Tzedek Justice Ball at the Hollywood Palladium, they will have something extra to celebrate.
COMMUNITY BRIEFS: Law suit Filed Against Wiesenthal Center, Camps Respond to Flu Symptoms
JewishJournal.com
July 23, 2009
Neighboring homeowners to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, who have been battling a proposed expansion of the museum for the past two years, have filed a lawsuit in Superior Court seeking to force the Los Angeles City Council to reverse its previous approval of the project.
NATION/WORLD BRIEFS: Agriprocessors Sold, Olmert Case, Mumbai Gunman Confesses
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2009
The Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, was sold to a Canadian company.\n\nSHF Industries, a company formed in May by Canadian plastics manufacturer Hershey Friedman and his son-in-law Daniel Hirsch, bought the failed kosher meatpacking plant for $8.5 million. The sale was approved Monday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Iowa.
Let Tisha B’Av Stir Hunger for Giving
Jewish Journal
July 23, 2009
At Tisha B’Av this year, think of fasting as a tzedakah stimulus plan. By observing this day of mourning, by not eating, our hunger can stimulate us to look beyond our own tables. Coming in the middle of summer, amid barbecues, picnics and trips to the ballpark, the day dedicated each year to the historic loss of Jerusalem and other Jewish calamities can be one of spiritual recovery.
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