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Funding Our Jewish Future

Rachel Pomerance December 4, 2003

Imagine a world in which every newborn child receives a voucher toward early childhood Jewish education and a free trip to Israel.

That\’s what philanthropist Michael Steinhardt asked 4,000 delegates to the North American Jewish federation system\’s General Assembly to consider earlier this month.

The \”Newborn Gift\” would be part of an overall investment in strengthening Jewish education that Steinhardt is proposing. He told delegates that he was willing to contribute $10 million to the project, which he called the Fund for Our Jewish Future — on condition that his contribution represent no more than 10 percent of the total fund.

In other words, the former Wall Street tycoon was challenging the audience to raise at least $90 million for Jewish education in the Diaspora.

Part-Time Work, Full-Time Families

Ellen Jaffe-Gill September 25, 2003

Women form slightly more than 11 percent of the RA\’s membership today, with both JTS and the University of Judaism (UJ) ordaining them as rabbis.

Mind, Body and Soul

Carin Davis March 7, 2002

What do women want? Happiness, family and to shed those last 10 pounds. Women can learn how to accomplish all this and more at an educational conference produced by women and designed to meet the needs and wants of women.

Bundles of Joy

J.D. Smith January 17, 2002

The stork has been awfully busy lately. It seems as though everyone I know is having a baby. A couple I haven\’t heard from in months sent a postcard with a picture of what I thought was a Sharpei puppy — it turns out the little boy\’s name is Jesse. I didn\’t even know they were expecting.

Leading With His Left

Ellen Jaffe-Gill April 26, 2001

Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman\’s art-filled home on a quiet, verdant Brentwood street is a world away from the gritty industrial world in which he lived as a child during the Depression and again as a young man on the cusp of World War II. But it\’s his experiences in that world of assembly-line workers that led him to the rabbinate and to his 52 years in Los Angeles.

Child’s Play

Michael Aushenker February 1, 2001

Walk down Main Street and you\’ll find an international corner market teeming with ethnic delights. Ring the doorbell on the house next door and you\’ll find yourself invited into a cozy Jewish home — family pictures and menorah on the shelves; Shabbat candles and a tzedakah box atop the dresser. Further down the block is Bubbe\’s Bookstore, filled with children\’s books and a puppet theater. For spiritual nourishment, there\’s the synagogue down the block. And if you\’re hungry for nourishment of a more literal kind, across the street stands the Blue Bagel Cafe, where you can chow down some lunch — falafel, pizza, even some sushi. Or, hey, take it to go and picnic underneath the giant oak tree down the street.

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