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January 13, 2010

Hope, Support for Victims of Human Trafficking

Jewish Journal January 13, 2010

“There are more slaves today than ever before in our history,” Kay Buck, executive director of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), said on Monday, Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Buck was speaking at the Museum of Tolerance at the launch of CAST’s first annual “From Slavery to Freedom” campaign, a monthlong effort timed to coincide with President Obama’s declaration of January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month and continuing through Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

Haiti Relief: How your can help

Jewish Journal January 13, 2010

As the death toll mounts in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the organized Jewish world is lining up support for the rescue and relief effort in the region.

Israel, Jewish groups sending help to Haiti

Jewish Journal January 13, 2010

Israel has sent a delegation of experts to Haiti to help the Caribbean nation in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and U.S. Jewish groups are collecting donations.

Saturday Night Fever

David Suissa January 13, 2010

If you want to depress an Orthodox parent raising Orthodox kids, just remind them about the dark side of secular teenage life, things like drugs, sex and vulgar music. It’s no wonder many Orthodox parents send their kids to non-coed high schools like YULA — it’s their way of offering some kind of protection from the unpredictable ills of modern life.

Wartime Deals Couldn’t Save Hungary’s Jews

Jonathan Kirsch January 13, 2010

At one strange and terrible moment in 1944, a conversation took place in Nazi-occupied Budapest between Adolf Eichmann and a charming rogue named Joel Brand, a man who preferred to spend his time in cafes while his wife ran the family’s little glove-making business. Eichmann offered Brand a deal — 1 million Jewish men, women and children would be set free in exchange for 10,000 trucks. “Blood for goods” is the phrase that Eichmann used to describe the deal he was proposing to make.

Dowd’s Evening in L.A. With the Rabbi

Tom Tugend January 13, 2010

What requests did New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd leave in the cracks of the Western Wall when she accompanied President George W. Bush, and later President Barack Obama, on their trips to Jerusalem?

A Modern Heschel-King Alliance: The Struggle for Food Access

Jewish Journal January 13, 2010

Like Veterans Day or Memorial Day, the annual celebration of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr. has, over time, become just another three-day weekend for many Americans. Forty-two years after King’s assassination, the holiday presents us with an opportunity for reflection. How does our society compare to the one he fought for? Have we put an end to the discrimination and grinding poverty that King called upon us to heal? Are we capable of a mass movement equal to the millions who marched and practiced civil disobedience, reforming our country from within? Where is the Jewish community in modern struggles for justice and equality?

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