On Friday night, Aug. 3 JewishJournal.com will live stream Nashuva\’s Shabbat services from The Brentwood Presbyterian Church. Join Rabbi Naomi Levy for high-energy service combining charismatic preaching, traditional prayer and meditation, along with a heavy infusion of musical styles, from reggae to klezmer, performed by the Nashuva band.
Aly Raisman, a Jewish American, won the floor exercise in helping the U.S. women\’s team to the gold medal in the gymnastics competition at the London Olympics.
Mel Brooks shows no outright sense of shame or victimhood in his humorous films, but his Jewishness is there without ambivalence, according to experts.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta denied media reports on Tuesday that he would discuss possible military attack plans against Iran during a brief visit to Israel.
A pervasive Jewish mythology has always idealized the mother-son relationship. But Proust knew better. Shortly after his mother’s death, he wrote an article in Le Figaro about a man who bludgeoned his mother to death and attempted to speculate what might have ignited this man’s descent into madness. Proust discussed the crippling dependence and blurred poisonous boundaries that sometimes overtake mothers and sons.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi told Israel on Tuesday he wanted to work for peace in the Middle East, in the first official message sent by the Arab state\’s new Islamist leadership to the Jewish state.
The U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key trends of last year.
A White House spokesman noted that Mitt Romney\’s calling Jerusalem the \”capital of Israel\” contradicts United States policy over several successive administrations.
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