Survivor: Harry Magid
Jane Ulman
February 27, 2013
\”The Jews are going to be taken from the ghetto and killed.”
Category
February 27, 2013
Letters to the Editor: Prager, vocational skills, BDS movement, SpaceIL
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2013
In a recent article, Dennis Prager wrote an oversimplified and sweeping criticism of self-esteem (“Behavior Matters Most,” Feb. 15). He claims that self-esteem promotes the idea that feelings are more important than actions.
Senators urge Europe to shut out Iran from bank transactions
Jewish Journal
February 27, 2013
A large bipartisan slate of U.S. senators urged European Union officials to authorize the body\’s central bank to shut Iran out of its money transfer system.
‘All That I Am I Will Not Deny’
Rabbi Laura Geller
February 27, 2013
In reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking “The Feminine Mystique,” Stephanie Coontz wrote in The New York Times that “readers who return to this feminist classic today are often puzzled by the absence of concrete political proposals to change the status of women. But ‘The Feminine Mystique’ has the impact it did because it focused on transforming women’s personal consciousness.”
Self Esteem
Dennis Prager
February 27, 2013
I will use my old friend Richard Gunther’s accompanying letter as a jumping-off point for a discussion of the self-esteem movement.
A gridlock bypass in Congress?
Raphael J. Sonenshein
February 27, 2013
A remarkable thing happened in Washington, D.C., last week. National leaders of business and labor hammered out an outline on immigration reform. This might not only give a major boost to a new immigration policy; it might also show a path around the gridlock that has driven the nation into budgetary face-offs month after month.
March 5: Election Day
Rob Eshman
February 27, 2013
I belong to a small, elite club that I would like to invite you to join.
The key to building community is social interaction, not ‘social networks’
Susan Freudenheim
February 27, 2013
In 2000, an urban congregation of 1,000 families found itself at a crossroads. The synagogue had a balanced budget and a beloved rabbi who was retiring after three decades, but its building was badly in need of repairs and the congregation was aging. To survive, the leadership felt they had to upgrade, so they took four steps: They hired a big-name rabbi, renovated the building, and put together an ambitious schedule of lectures and other programs to attract new faces. They also borrowed $1 million to pay for it all.
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