A Celebration Needed More Than Ever: The Force Behind LA’s Celebrate Israel Festival
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein
April 25, 2012
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April 25, 2012
More than skin deep
Rabbi Dan Moskovitz
April 25, 2012
Yuck, skin disease! This has been the cry of many a bar and bat mitzvah student when informed that this week’s Torah portion will be their Torah reading on their big day. I empathize with them, for I have had the same reaction in preparing this column. But as is so often the case with the Torah (and with skin disease), to get to the root of understanding, you have to go below the surface.
Survivor: Jack Adelstein
Jane Ulman
April 25, 2012
“Raus, raus!” (Out, out!) Jack Adelstein — then Janek Eidelstein, 4 years old — was abruptly awakened by a dozen SS soldiers and Polish farmers. He was sleeping in a cave in a dense forest outside Krasnik, Poland, where he was hiding with his father, brother and an older sister.
Letters to the Editor: Dennis Prager, kosher hot dogs, chewable Xanax
Jewish Journal
April 25, 2012
Mr. Prager has stated he has had an obsession with fighting evil (“A Man and a Book,” April 20).
Opinion: Agreements with Israeli schools a turning point for UC Irvine
Jewish Journal
April 25, 2012
Few universities have garnered as much international attention and Jewish communal concern over student-led, anti-Israel and sometimes anti-Semitic activities on campus than the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Opinion: They said it couldn’t be done
Jewish Journal
April 25, 2012
They said it couldn’t be done; that the rebirth of an ancient nation would be like growing fish in the desert. But, 64 years later, Israel has accomplished both. Just ask Dotan Bar-Noy, CEO of Israel’s Grow Fish Anywhere Advanced Systems, which develops innovative water technologies for arid fish farming that can help feed millions around the world.
Opinion: Living with Holocaust ghosts
Susan Freudenheim
April 25, 2012
Ed Asner, aka Lou Grant, walked slowly to the front of the stage at the Museum of Tolerance on Sunday night, and in his familiar growl — this time with a Latvian accent — he softly spoke: “Thank you for the help that is not only material, but also moral. A person lives through hope, and I hope it will get better.”
Opinion: Shepherding the Bible
David Suissa
April 25, 2012
It\’s common knowledge that the Bible is the “greatest book ever written.” No other book can match its power or wide appeal; no other book has been as studied, analyzed or debated. It’s the literary gift that keeps on giving, the book of books, the book for all eternity.
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