It started several months ago in anxious whispers among pro-Israel leaders. Now it has burst into the open in full-page ads in The New York Times and op-eds in The Wall Street Journal:
The head of the Knesset Interior Committee called for the Israeli government to cancel the Western Wall egalitarian prayer agreement, saying, “It’s not the end of the world if American Jews get offended.”
Google researchers recently conducted an exhaustive study in which they attempted to identify the characteristic most common in the highest functioning teams.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot announced in a tweet that she and her husband are expecting their second child.
Election Day dawned in Los Angeles clear and sunny and full of promise — the promise of a closing page to a chapter many have come to dread.
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala on Nov. 4 raised a record $38 million from supporters such as GUESS founders Maurice and Paul Marciano, who donated $5 million, and Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, who donated $6 million.
The Catholic Jewish Women’s Conference is celebrating 40 years of interfaith dialogue with special guests including Rabbi Sara Bassin of Temple Emmanuel of Beverly Hills and Sister Toni Nash from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
Very typical and a favorite biblical interjection. It alternates with hen, as in Genesis 3:22 (God speaking): hen ha-adam … “Now that the man has become like one of us … ” Common in other Semitic languages, as Aramaic hen “yes, yea.”
I was furious to read about Rabbi Sholom Levitansky, who will be treated at Beit T’Shuvah rather than doing jail time for pedophile sexual abuse (“Rabbi Charged With Sex Abuse to Get 1 Year of Counseling, No Prison,” Nov. 4).
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