Fighting ‘Gravity’ and other motion picture musings
Melissa Weller
February 26, 2014
Some chalk talk on the 86th annual Oscar tournament.
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February 26, 2014
Jewish groups facing ‘concerted’ cyber attacks, security network warns
Jewish Journal
February 26, 2014
U.S. Jewish groups face “a more concerted and aggressive effort” from Internet hackers, the national community’s security arm said in an alert.
Torah portion: Bridging Judaism’s generation gap
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
February 26, 2014
How do we preserve tradition while simultaneously introducing new ideas? Can worldviews from the past coexist with those of the new generation? From Shabbat tables and Passover seders to public forums and debates, we find an ever-widening generation gap in the Jewish world on issues ranging from halachic flexibility to support for Zionism and Israel. Can we strike a balance between past and present voices? One prominent young rabbi in Israel thinks so.
Kerry pressing Palestinians on framework peace agreement
Jewish Journal
February 26, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is focusing on bringing Palestinians around to his framework peace proposals, said the chairman of the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on the Middle East.
And the Oscar goes to … Israel?
David Suissa
February 26, 2014
There’s a good chance that when they announce the winner in the Best Documentary Feature category at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, it will be the Egyptian film “The Square.”
Israel, Palestine and Kerry’s legacy
Shmuel Rosner
February 26, 2014
There was an interesting article the other day in the Wall Street Journal by Walter Russell Mead. “Both the EU and the United States made a historic blunder by underestimating Russia’s reaction to the Ukrainian trade agreement,” Mead wrote.
Awarding a Broadway ‘Wonder’
Jonathan Kirsch
February 26, 2014
Few figures of popular culture are quite so beloved or beguiling as the character of Tevye, the pious but philosophical dairyman who reached his most celebrated incarnation in the Broadway hit musical “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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