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March 9, 2010

Disabled Israeli Kids Get Help in Negev

Meredith Price March 9, 2010

Like most fathers, Israeli Maj. Gen. Doron Almog imagined great things for his son, Eran. Named for Almog’s beloved brother who died in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Almog hoped Eran would inherit some of the humor and success that had defined his namesake. He wanted him to be brave, smart and sensitive. He wanted him to get a good education, serve his country, marry a woman he loved and, one day, have children of his own.

Gay, Lesbian Rabbis Share Hurdles, Triumphs

Julie Gruenbaum Fax March 9, 2010

When Denise Eger was in rabbinic school in the mid-1980s, she couldn’t talk about being a lesbian because that might have gotten her thrown out of the seminary.

When Jocee Hudson was at the same rabbinic school two decades later, she also didn’t talk much about being a lesbian — because it was such a nonissue. Everyone knew, and it was no big deal.

Oren offers to return to Irvine university

Jewish Journal March 9, 2010

Israel\’s U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month.\n\nMichael Oren in an open letter Monday said he would meet with students at the University of California, Irvine who disagree with his point of view.\n\nThe letter to the university community was published on the Web site of the New University campus newspaper.\n

American Funnyman in Israel’s Army

Jonathan Kirsch March 9, 2010

The first thing you need to know about Joel Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah” (Free Press, $25) is that it’s
laugh-out-loud funny. It was tough for the rest of my household to concentrate on “The Bachelor” for all of my chortles and guffaws, and I was repeatedly asked: “What are you reading?”

Jews, Blacks Affirm Shared Priorities

Ryan Torok March 9, 2010

Celebrating the historic partnership forged during the civil rights movement between the African American and Jewish communities, two events drew from the spirit of Black History Month with an eye toward building a stronger, collaborative future between the two groups.

Politics Elbows Its Way Into Film’s Oscar Party

Danielle Berrin March 9, 2010

At the official Oscar party March 7 for the Israeli foreign film nominee “Ajami,” the tension between art and politics threatened to overwhelm the night. And rather than celebrate a win for the third consecutive Israeli film to be nominated for an Oscar, private sighs of relief followed the film’s loss to Argentina.

Spirituality Blooms Anew as Rabbi Begins Retirement

Julie Gruenbaum Fax March 9, 2010

Rabbi Sheryl Lewart knew it was time to go to rabbinic school around 20 years ago when she found herself reluctant to sell a very expensive table from her 19th century American antiques business because she had too many open volumes of Talmud spread over it.

Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudey (Exodus 35:1-40:38)

Rabbi Haim Ovadia March 9, 2010

“Of the blue, purple and crimson yarns they also made the service vestments for officiating in the sanctuary … they hammered out sheets of gold and cut threads to
be worked into design among the blue, the purple and the crimson yarns and the fine linen.” (Exodus 39:1-3).

Communications activist silenced in Cuban jail cell

Jewish Journal March 9, 2010

Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the get-out-the-vote enthusiast for candidate Barack Obama, the technology contractor who helped the U.S. government bring the world\’s remotest populations into the 21st century.

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