Briefs: Western Wall dig starts, Israel and U.S. back gays at U.N.
Jewish Journal
February 8, 2007
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Big Sunday Gets Big Boost From City
Naomi Glauberman
February 16, 2006
Corporate, private and organizational donors underwrite the day, including Temple Israel. The budget this year is $450,000. The city\’s participation will include providing security, busing and street closures. Additional donors are both welcomed and needed, Levinson said.
Israel Real Estate Sales to Foreign Buyers on the Rise
Greer Fay Cashman
January 19, 2006
Americans seeking to buy in Jerusalem prefer the neighborhoods of Talbiyeh, Rehavia, Katamon, Baka and Sha\’arei Hessed, and are willing to pay up to $1million for apartments of less than 100 square meters, Hershkowitz said. Recently they have discovered Nahlaot, he added, and many people are now buying their holiday homes in this more colorful part of Jerusalem.
Post-Bar Mitzvah Stress Disorder
Judy Gruen
January 12, 2006
Post-Bar Mitzvah Stress Disorder (PBMSD) usually follows a case of Pre-Bar Mitzvah Stress Disorder. This is characterized by speed-dialing your caterer several times daily until you actually hear him chewing antacids while you speak; zipping around so frantically from errand to errand that you have no time to eat anything other than large brownies in the car (perversely, this still causes weight gain), and bursting into tears with no warning because your little boy is no longer a little boy but a newly minted teen who has the audacity to catapult into puberty before your very eyes.
Choose Your Own Cruise Adventure
Jewish Journal
December 1, 2005
Cruising isn\’t what it used to be. And to the more than 10 million people who took to the high seas last year, that\’s a good thing.
Tax Cuts Bring Shameful Silence
James D. Besser
November 3, 2005
This month House Republicans will try to wrap up work on proposals aimed at slowing the hemorrhage of red ink from federal budget ledgers while finding a way to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of hurricane relief and for two wars that don\’t seem about to end anytime soon.
Wanted: 1 Rich Jew
Rob Eshman
June 23, 2005
I have a friend who may come into a large sum of money. Not millions, but tens of millions. Sometimes, she told me, shedaydreams about all the charities and causes she\’ll donate to.\n\”That\’s what I want to be, one of those people who sits around all day and gives out money,\” she said.
B’nai Mitzvah Planning Guide
Joan G Friedman
August 12, 2004
When the child is born, start saving! It\’s not a bad idea to start two savings accounts; one for college and one for the bar or bat mitzvah.
Lobbying for a Day on State Budget Crisis
Idan Ivri
May 13, 2004
The air in these days in Sacramento — while still hovering at a perfectly balmy Californian 79 degrees — is rather bleak for agencies hoping to get government funding.
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