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Love and Loyalty

Jewish Journal Staff July 29, 2004

More out of ethnic loyalty than any expectation of a great match, The Journal stayed late at the 78th annual Mercedes Benz Cup men\’s tennis tournament on July 17 at UCLA to watch a doubles semifinal between two Israelis and two Americans. The Americans, Bob and Mike Bryan, were the tournament\’s top-seeded doubles team, handsome identical twins from Camarillo who have been unstoppable lately. The Israelis\’ record was spottier. Yonatan Ehrlich, 28, is a native of Buenos Aries, Argentina, and a resident of Haifa. His partner, Andy Ram, 24, is from Jerusalem by way of Montevideo, Uruguay. They also are strikingly handsome — they prepped for the match by running shirtless around a practice court, kicking a tennis ball as if it were a soccer ball.

Both are sports heroes in Israel, according to Hagai Ben Zvi, who covers tennis for the Israeli press. Their international careers were set back by three years (each) of army service, but both made the semifinals at Wimbledon last year and both have been invited to the Olympics in Athens.

Friends Find Real Flavor of Europe

Matthew Rosenbaum July 15, 2004

Like thousands of others college-age Americans, my three friends and I were backpacking through Europe. We came straight from our year of study at yeshivas in Israel, and our travels had one important difference: We were eating kosher.

A Libel That Holds No Truth

Dennis Prager April 3, 2003

Some Americans apparently believe that we have gone to war with Iraq \”because of the Jews.\” Having written a book explaining anti-Semitism (\”Why the Jews?

The Reason for Anti-Semitism,\” Simon & Schuster, 1983), all I can do is marvel at the durability of anti-Semitism and the eternality of the charge that the Jews are responsible for everything anti-Semites fear.

No group in the world has been the target of nearly as many twisted and ludicrous accusations.

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Send Troops

Rob Eshman January 9, 2003

As the weather warmed this week, the yard signs protesting NO WAR pushed up like crocuses through lawns from Santa Monica to Hollywood.\n\nNot many, mind you — but enough to signal that quite a few Americans are having second and third thoughts about a war against Saddam.\n\nNobody likes Saddam, but the Bush administration has failed to present incontrovertible evidence, or even very convincing arguments, as to why we must fight now.\n\nThe most enticing reason seems to be that by deposing Saddam, America will send a clear message that tyranny will not stand in the Middle East, and that regime change in Iraq will blow the winds of democracy through Iran, Syria, Libya — maybe even Saudi Arabia.

A Sept. 11 Parable for Rosh Hashana

Rabbi Daniel S. Brenner September 5, 2002

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev was asked: \”What is the right spiritual path, that of sorrow or that of joy?\”

He replied: \”There are two kinds of sorrow and two kinds of joy. When a man broods over the misfortunes that have come upon him, that is a bad kind of sorrow. But the grief that comes when a man knows what he has lost is honest and good. The same is true of joy. One who chases empty pleasures is a fool. But one who is truly joyful is like a man who is rebuilding his house after a fire. He feels his need deep in his soul, and with each stone that is laid, his heart rejoices.\”

Pardon His French

Naomi Pfefferman September 5, 2002

There\’s still no love lost between iconoclastic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard and Hollywood, as his new film, \”In Praise of Love,\” suggests. The picture began stirring controversy at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival when the flick — and its director — dissed Tinseltown, Steven Spielberg and \”Schindler\’s List.\”

The Value of a Day

Eric Copage September 5, 2002

The High Holidays are a time Jews reserve for themselves. They don\’t seek the approval or participation of gentiles. What if African Americans stopped trying to get white people to celebrate with us and recognized that we have been essential in making this nation?

9/11/02

Rob Eshman September 5, 2002

Now a year has passed. We have bombed. We have infiltrated. We have analyzed and rallied and written.

Going Through Hell For The Dead

Larry Derfner August 29, 2002

Natan Koenig was blotting up blood from the floor of the cafeteria named for Frank Sinatra at Jerusalem\’s Hebrew University. Koenig worked for two hours on that 95-degree afternoon on July 31, arriving soon after a Hamas-made bomb exploded under a table, killing nine people, including two Americans, wounding some 90 others and shattering the lunchroom.

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