What Ellman does or says, or even how their children behave, can be a reflection on the rabbi. There\’s a risk in being completely open with people, Ellman said, as there\’s always a possibility for distortion.
In May, on the eve of Shavuot, while most Orthodox Jews were preparing for the upcoming holiday, a few representatives from Young Israel of Beverly Hills (YIBH) were in a Santa Monica courtroom. They were finishing up the second day of a trial that, they hoped, would bring to a close a bitterly fought dispute that had been dogging their congregation for more than two years.
In the long-running Palestinian-Israeli conflict, score some recent victories for the Palestinians.
On the No. 3 bus line in Jerusalem, women passengers pay their fare and walk directly to the back to find a seat.
On a sloping green hill tucked between small farmsteads, the mottled graves of Jews buried here since the 1600s rise up like a forgotten forest.
STRIVE, an intensive work-readiness program, is modeled after an initiative of the same name that began more than 20 years ago in New York\’s Harlem in an effort to help women on welfare overcome their severe difficulties in finding and keeping meaningful jobs.
Russian Jewish leaders agree that the community should remember Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, primarily as the man who ended decades of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Russia.
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