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October 31, 2012
Rabbi Mordecai Finley sees the big picture
In the new movie “Hirokin: The Last Samurai,” due out Tuesday on DVD, the title character, a stranger in a strange world, sets off on a soul-searching odyssey in which his calling becomes inextricably linked to the new inhabitants he meets around him.
Where was God When Hurricane Sandy Struck?
What was G-d thinking when he sent Hurricane Sandy and what could have been its purpose?
Yaron Zilberman’s new film on a quartet in discord
The delicate, fragile balance in a social structure where professional lives are intertwined with personal lives is explored through the prism of a string quartet in the new movie “A Late Quartet.” Israeli-born filmmaker Yaron Zilberman, who has loved chamber music since his youth, described how he got the idea for the film while traveling to promote his 2004 documentary, “Watermarks.”
Pro-gay marriage leader apologizes for ‘Nazi’ comments
A religious outreach official for a campaign seeking marriage equality for gays in Minnesota apologized for likening opponents\’ tactics to those of the Nazis. “It was a terrible mistake to even mention Nazism in an attempt to illustrate my point, and I fully understand why many found it to be offensive,” the Rev. Brad Brandon said in a statement first published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Oct. 24.
British pop sensation Alex Clare balances stardom and Orthodoxy
Alex Clare is really just a nice Jewish boy. Sure, his hit “Too Close” is currently the seventh most popular song in the United States, his music video has garnered more than 18 million hits on YouTube and he has mobs of teenage girls chasing him around Europe. But at the end of the day, he still likes to sit down with a nice challenging page of Talmud.
Loyola marymount commemorates Kristallnacht
On the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938, brown-shirted storm troopers torched and looted hundreds of synagogues and destroyed 7,500 Jewish businesses throughout Germany and Austria in what is known as Kristallnacht, “the night of broken glass.”
Haifa a many-faceted jewel
Visiting Americans often compare Haifa with San Francisco for its hilly landscape and trendy, artsy neighborhoods, or Boston for its mix of academia and maritime culture.
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