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July 19, 2011

Beyond raising the debt limit: What a Republican government would be like

Raphael J. Sonenshein July 19, 2011

The battle over raising the debt limit has raised a lot of concern about how Republicans act as an opposition party. They have shown that they are willing to risk crashing the economy to get their way with a Democratic president. But they won’t be in opposition forever. We have to start thinking about what they would be like if they were actually in charge.

Dr. Joseph Hittelman, 100

Lauren Bottner July 19, 2011

Dr. Joseph Hittelman, a Los Angeles physician and advocate for health care for the poor, died July 17 at 100 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles following a heart attack.

Sam Denoff, TV writer and producer, 83

Jewish Journal July 19, 2011

Sam Denoff, who had his greatest success writing and producing the classic sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s, as well as scores of other TV comedies, died July 8 at home in Brentwood, Calif. He was 83.

Silence is consent: Parashat Matot (Numbers 30:2-32:42)

Rabbi Laura Geller July 19, 2011

I recently received an e-mail with the subject line “The Arab Mentality.” It described a Palestinian woman who had been badly burned and successfully treated in Israel, only to be arrested later for attempting to infiltrate Israel’s borders as a suicide bomber. The sender included the names of all those who had received the posting. My name was in the middle of the list.

Extravagant Jewish celebrations — Have we gone too far?

Jewish Journal July 19, 2011

A wedding that costs $100,000? A bar mitzvah that costs $20,000? When did extravagance and luxury become such primary Jewish values? I can’t remember the last simcha (Jewish celebration) I attended at which there were not tremendous amounts of wasted food, overly expensive napkins and bands large enough for a royal banquet.

Two brothers rocked by war’s toll

Ryan Torok July 19, 2011

Dana Reinhardt says she was surprised when her young-adult novel “The Things a Brother Knows” (Wendy Lamb Books: $16.99) won the 2011 Sydney Taylor Book Award in January, because her tale isn’t set during the Holocaust or in a shtetl, and it doesn’t wrestle with themes of anti-Semitism.

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