Janice Kamenir-Reznik doesn’t tend to get nervous before a speaking engagement, but her Sept. 12 address to worshippers at Mount Sinai Memorial Park and Mortuary’s Kever Avot service has her feeling a bit anxious.
Jewish leaders in Melbourne have severed ties with the city’s major broadsheet newspaper over its treatment of Israel.
Hundreds attended the funerals of four Israelis killed in an attack by a Palestinian faction trying to scuttle the start of peace talks.
A settlers\’ umbrella group has announced that it will unilaterally end the West Bank construction moratorium in response to the terrorist attack near Hebron.
Israel would be willing to divide control over Jerusalem as part of a peace deal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told an Israeli newspaper.
A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled.
Elie Wiesel often recounts the tale of Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sasov, who needed a miracle. His predecessors had gone to a particular spot in the forest, lit a special candle, said a certain blessing and were able to evoke a miracle. Throughout the generations, much had been lost. Now the poor rabbi no longer knew where in the forest one should pray, no longer possessed the special candle, did not even know the secret blessing. What he knew was the story. Dear God, he prayed, the story must be sufficient. And it was.
Energy poured from the woman with flowing brown hair and a giant smile as she took the stage during the National Storytelling Conference, held this year at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, July 29-Aug. 1.
When my friend and I couldn’t get a table at Junior’s, we sat at the counter. Of course sitting at the counter means having lunch with the stranger next to you.
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