Hit Biblical Jackpot at Timna’s Mines
Lisa Alcalay Klug
July 14, 2005
When you ascend the rose red pillars towering over the Arava desert, you hardly expect to look down upon the biblical Mishkan.
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camps
‘Almost’ a Beginning in Paris
Tom Tugend
September 16, 2004
It\’s a bit like that with Holocaust films: The protagonists are either killed or liberated, but if they survive, we do not see how they get back to \”normalcy\” and cope anew with everyday life.\n\nThe modest, low-key French import \”Almost Peaceful\” (\”Un Monde Presque Paisible\”) remedies this omission.
You Gotta Be in it to Win it
Jewish Journal Staff
September 4, 2003
Synagogues and Jewish institutions will help sell tickets, which can be purchased via credit card through The Jewish Federation of Orange County.
Holocaust Exploited
Joe Berkofsky
March 6, 2003
An emaciated death camp survivor stares blankly alongside a gaunt steer.
Lifeline for Kids
Gaby Wenig
October 10, 2002
Talia Hill, 11, was born with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and bone deformities. She is hearing impaired, speech impaired, mobility impaired, fine-motor impaired and neither her two arms nor her two legs are the same length. In her short life, she has had multiple surgeries, a hearing aid and has had to take several kinds of medication on a regular basis.
Berlin’s Open Wounds
Rachel Brand
September 19, 2002
A bombed-out building transformed into a discothèque; the central section of an apartment building that is bizarrely absent — these are just some of the visual images that preserve the memory of Berlin\’s complex and turbulent past.
U.N., Refugee Camps and Our Money
Rabbi Dov Fischer
June 27, 2002
Why is the United Nations running refugee camps like Jenin, for people who claim to be living in their own land?
Even Bullies Go to Summer Camp
Jewish Journal
November 29, 1999
Directors at three of California\’s Jewish sleep-over camps describe them as nurturing environments where every child is made to feel safe and part of a caring community. Campers, they say, generally meet the high expectations for mensch-like behavior.\n\nBut despite everyone\’s best intentions, camps occasionally see aggressive or exclusionary behavior, and each camp has a policy to firmly and fairly discourage bullying.\n\n
The Scent of Controversy
Jewish Journal
January 14, 1999
Ronald Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, philanthropist and conservative political activist, has been unanimously selected by a nominating committee to become the next chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Wiesenthal Report:
Tom Tugend
January 15, 1998
Jewish refugees fortunate enough to make it into Switzerland during World War II, were, in most cases, interned in forced-labor camps, required to perform hard physical labor under primitive living conditions, and separated from their families.\n
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