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June 21, 2011

Jewish baseball player supports Little League efforts

Jewish Journal June 21, 2011

Shawn Green returned to a Los Angeles baseball diamond on June 15, only this time instead of suiting up in a blue-and-white uniform at Dodger Stadium, he donned jeans and a green Subway polo shirt at La Cienega Park in Beverly Hills. And instead of being flanked by the likes of Eric Gagne and Adrian Beltre, Green posed for photos with 1980s Dodger great Orel Hershiser, the Marlins of Beverly Hills Little League and fellow Jewish celebrity Jared Fogle, the bespectacled Subway pitchman.

Omri Casspi brings basketball camp to valley

Jewish Journal June 21, 2011

Playing in the NBA is Omri Casspi’s dream come true. And he would like to help make that dream come true for kids. The Sacramento Kings forward is holding the first of what he hopes will be many basketball camps to instill core skills in young players.

Roger Love: From Bima to Eminem

Jewish Journal June 21, 2011

When Jeff Bridges won the Academy Award for his portrayal of an aging, alcoholic country singer in the movie “Crazy Heart,” he memorably thanked his parents, the motion picture academy, his director, his co-stars, and then, toward the end, as if recalling a particularly fond friend, “Roger Love, man!” And though Bridges may have been the most publicly effusive in his praise, he’s hardly the first performer whom Love has helped become a better singer or speaker. From Eminem to Glenn Beck, when celebrities want to sound like superstars, they turn to vocal coach Roger Love.

RAND turns its eyes to Israel

Jewish Journal June 21, 2011

The State of Israel wants advice regarding the strengths and weaknesses of its police force and has commissioned an operational study with the Santa Monica-based think tank the RAND Corp. Greg Ridgeway, director of the RAND Safety and Justice Program, said the concerns of the Israel Police are with benchmarking, performance measurement, deterrence, crime prevention and community policing.

Opinion: What I’ve learned in 30 years as a rabbi

Jewish Journal June 21, 2011

“The results of a computerized survey indicate the perfect rabbi preaches exactly 15 minutes. He condemns sins but never upsets anyone. He works from 8 a.m. until midnight and is also a janitor. He makes $50 a week, wears good clothes, buys good books, drives a good car and gives about $50 weekly to the poor. He is 28 years old and has preached 30 years. He has a burning desire to work with teenagers and spends all of his time with senior citizens. The perfect rabbi smiles all the time with a straight face because he has a sense of humor that keeps him seriously dedicated to his work. He makes 15 calls daily on congregation families, shut-ins and the hospitalized, and is always in his office when needed.





Change and Stasis: The Ever-Evolving American Synagogue

Jonathan Kirsch June 21, 2011

Perhaps the single biggest surprise in “The Synagogue in America: A Short History,” by Marc Lee Raphael (New York University Press: $30), is its sheer entertainment value. Raphael, who holds the Nathan Gumenick chair of Judaic studies at the College of William and Mary, has produced a short, highly readable and wholly illuminating study that will delight anyone who has ever sat in shul and told himself the beloved old Jewish joke that ends with the punch line: “To that one, I never go.”

Opinion: Liberalism and the decline of a society’s character

Dennis Prager June 21, 2011

While most American Jews and other liberals believe in the intrinsic goodness and moral superiority of liberal policies, powerful arguments can be made that liberal policies actually diminish a society’s moral character. Many individual liberals are wonderful people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse.

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