If Robert Gibbs hadn’t said that Democrats may lose the House in November, then House Democrats might not have been so infuriated that the president himself had to
travel to Capitol Hill to let them vent.
I spent part of last week on the phone with Dustin Hoffman’s and Meg Ryan’s people.\n
Offended by Asarah B’Av Cover\n\nI, and many other Jews, both Orthodox and non-Orthodox, found the cover of The Jewish Journal extremely offensive regarding “What Are You Doing for Asarah B’Av” (July 16) by Jonathan Zasloff. The wording, “The time has come for us to acknowledge the dirty little secret of Tisha B’Av: The destruction of the Temple was one of the best things ever to happen to the Jewish people …” [was] … extremely offensive to our beliefs on the saddest day in Jewish history.\nI have really liked your covers in the past regarding Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, etc., [finding them] to be in good taste, and we like reading your paper. However, the Tisha B’Av statement on the cover is beyond controversial — it is just plain offensive.\nIn the future, it would be greatly appreciated and respectful to refrain from putting such statements on the cover of your newspaper.
Month after month, a few years ago, my little boy would nudge me. “Daddy, I want to try out for Kaplan,” he’d say. I knew Kaplan was a basketball program in the Hancock Park area, but I knew little else. My boy Noah was already playing for his Maimonides team in his school league, which meant practice every week and a game every Sunday — so why add a whole other layer of practice and games? It’s tough enough to juggle after-school activities for three busy kids; who needs another carpool headache to the other side of town?
In honor of Tu B’Av, the Jewish dating holiday, let’s acknowledge that while the Internet has helped some single people to narrow the playing field, dating is still confusing. So it may come as some comfort that there’s another, less expected tool to help in looking for love: science.\n
Israel has lifted a travel advisory warning its citizens against traveling to Turkey.
Americans opposed to Israel’s blockade of Gaza are organizing a ship from the United States to take part in an international flotilla.
Israeli Defense Forces chief Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi praised military relations between Italy and Israel.\n
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