Youkilis says he will play for Israel at World Baseball Classic
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2012
Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said he will play for Israel at the World Baseball Classic.
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August 22, 2012
Rabbis join Obama support group
Tom Tugend
August 22, 2012
Some 613 American rabbis, ranging across all denominations, have signed up as supporters of Rabbis for Obama, it was announced Tuesday by the Obama for America campaign.
Netanyahu, Peres condemn lynch incident
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2012
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack by Jewish teens on three Palestinians in the center of Jerusalem.
D’var Torah: Me, myself and I
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2012
Tom Wolfe dubbed the \’70s the \”Me Decade.\” A poor economy sent Americans away from the social caring of the 1960s and into a retrenchment of insecurity and self-focus.
French rabbi receives threat to ‘punish’ Jews for complaining
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2012
The chief rabbi of Lyon, Richard Wertenschlag, has received a letter threatening to \”punish a Jew for every complaint the Jews make on TV.\”
The story behind the Hotel Shangri-La anti-Semitism trial
Jonah Lowenfeld
August 22, 2012
It was late in the afternoon on Aug. 15, a Wednesday, when the jury delivered its verdict to a Santa Monica courtroom.
Diller Foundation takes teen awards nationwide
Jewish Journal
August 22, 2012
The California-based Helen Diller Family Foundation has announced it will expand its Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards from a statewide to nationwide program and will double the number of annual awards to 10, with five of the awards reserved exclusively for Californians. The Foundation formally announced the expansion at an Aug. 20 ceremony in San Francisco honoring this year’s recipients, which included three Angelenos — Zak Kukoff, Adam Weinstein and Celine Yousefzadeh.
Sam Raimi’s latest horror flick draws on ‘true’ tale, Jewish exorcism
Naomi Pfefferman
August 22, 2012
Sam Raimi’s latest horror flick draws on ‘true’ tale, Jewish exorcism
Naomi Pfefferman
August 22, 2012
Back in 2004, the horror-flicks mogul Sam Raimi was riveted by a Los Angeles Times article headlined “A Jinx in a Box?” which recounted the strange history of a wine cabinet brought to this country by a Polish concentration camp survivor. The box contained “allegedly, one ‘dibbuk,’ a kind of spirit popular in Yiddish folklore,” the article said — as well locks of hair, a rock, a dried rosebud, a goblet and coins.
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