A poll in honor of Valentine\’s Day on the Hebrew-language Web portal Motke, which caters to seniors, shows that around 50 percent of senior citizens have sex at least once a week.
The Claims Conference fired three employees for approving fake Holocaust claims.
In 1968, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish thinkers of the last century, invited Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to join him at his Passover Seder. We\’ll never know what they would have talked about over all that matzoh and four cups of wine. But we know that the night before he was assassinated, Dr. King saw himself as Moses, viewing from the mountaintop the Promised Land that he would never enter. He presciently ended his speech by saying those famous two lines we all know by heart: \”I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!\”
I wonder how many people can say they\’ve shared a Sabbath dinner… with a New York Yankee.
Like millions of people around the world, I have been following the tragedy in Haiti since the earthquake jolted the country just over a month ago. Although the media portrays a great deal of the devastation that has been visited on this poorest of Western nations, it wasn’t until I traveled to Haiti on a humanitarian relief mission that I truly understood just how severe the crisis really was.
At the Herzliya Conference, former Shas leader Aryeh Deri took part in a panel on education toward Jewish identity, and two of his points made it into the headlines. He said that until two centuries ago, religion simply was the Jewish culture. Since then, he says, secular Jewry has given us education but no culture, and he basically equated Jewish secular culture with reality TV. As a result, he thinks that the only common denominator for a dialogue on Jewish identity needs to be that God created the world and that the Torah was given to us by God. Everything else for him is barren.\n
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