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Some Talk, Lots of Action

Wendy J. Madnick April 18, 2002

The Council of Israeli Community (CIC), an organization primarily known for planning the annual Israeli Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, is moving in new directions in the wake of the current Middle East crisis.

According to Vice President Haim Linder, the CIC (originally called the Council of Israeli Organizations) came together in 1996 as one arm of a nonprofit umbrella organization called the Promoting Israel Education and Culture Fund. The group adopted its current title and mission statement on Sept. 10, 2001.

\”We got together at Valley Beth Shalom. At noon we went home, knowing we had a new organization, and then we all know what happened the next day,\” Linder said.

The Women of Worcester

Marlene Adler Marks April 11, 2002

The third annual daylong symposium sponsored by the Jewish Federation in Worcester, Mass., was titled, \”A Woman\’s Voice,\” without the slightest hint of irony. Less than a generation ago, \”a woman\’s voice\” meant only one thing, the talmudic prohibition of Orthodox men toward hearing the sound of Jewish women in prayer.

Kol isha (a woman\’s voice) was used as the legal barrier against women becoming rabbis and cantors, the excuse for exclusion.

That\’s why I named this newspaper column A Woman\’s Voice, to break down a wall.

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