Schools in southern Israel reopen
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
Schools reopened in southern Israeli communities after having been closed for three days due to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.
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November 2, 2011
My Single Peeps: Altara M.
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
Altara is an only child, raised in New York. She wants to find a man from the East Coast. And when she wants something, she goes after it. That’s how she got in this column.
Don’t abandon old in pursuit of ‘Next’
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
Over the last few years, I have spent considerable time on the inside of what is called the “innovation sector” in Jewish life, even spending two terrific and unexpected years as a professor of Jewish communal innovation at Brandeis University. Most recently, the new organization that I am leading, the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, was named in its first year of existence to the prestigious Slingshot list, which catalogs and profiles the most innovative organizations working in the Jewish community.
Oh, to be young and stupid again
Gina Nahai
November 2, 2011
I was 21 years old, a first-year law student at USC, when I walked by a trailer parked on an empty lot off McCarthy Way on the downtown campus. It was late afternoon, and I was on my way home; I only noticed the trailer because it was such an anomaly among the red brick buildings surrounding it. The door was open, and I could hear voices inside, and I saw a young man with dark skin and a sparse, reddish beard standing amid a mess of paper on the floor.
Don’t be fooled!
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
Evangelical missionary David Herzog stooped to a new low deceiving the Jewish community with ads which intentionally avoided any mention of their Christian evangelical agenda.
My holy peeps
David Suissa
November 2, 2011
Few things in Jewish life get a rabbi more excited than the chance to help Jews marry other Jews. One reason is the difficulty factor: It’s always been a challenge to convince young Jews, especially the unaffiliated, to limit their marriage options to the 2 percent of the population that is Jewish.
Occupy L.A. raises more questions than it answers
Jonah Lowenfeld
November 2, 2011
From the very beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement, people wanted to know why. Why did a group of protesters calling themselves “the 99 percent” take up residence in Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 17?
Awards recognize, reward 4 local Jewish educators
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2011
It’s a hard-knock life for teachers, who are trying their darnedest to teach children amid decreased attention spans, increased technological gadgets, fewer resources, job insecurity and myriad other challenges.
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