Numbers never tell the whole story, but these come close. By retaining control of the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian populations therein, Israel will either cease to be a primarily Jewish State, or will become an undemocratic one, where a Jewish minority rules an Arab majority.
The media has been busy for months with \”One People, Two Worlds\” (Schocken Books, 2002), the book I co-authored with Ammie
Hirsch, and the promotional tour from which I withdrew after two appearances in deference to the Council of Torah Sages.
We live in the age of full disclosure. In this era of creepy stalkers, emotional maniacs and frightening venereal diseases, you can\’t be too careful, so singles have learned to utilize romantic phrases such as, \”Have you been tested for AIDS lately?\” as casually as one used to suggest, \”Shall I pick you up at 8?\”
Not long ago, a friend of mine called me and said, "Naomi, I need your help.
Rashi Hebrew Academy, a new yeshiva for learning disabled and gifted children, will open Sept. 3 at Congregation Shaarei Tefila on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.
The statistics haven\’t changed much in the close to 30 years I\’ve been in practice. About 50 percent of all American marriages end in divorce. As a family law attorney, I work with people every day who are giving up on their dreams of marital bliss. And in many cases — for my client and for the well-being of children involved — ending the marriage is a good idea. Marriages that break up because of untreated physical abuse, gambling, drug and alcohol problems, and infidelity are often damaged beyond repair. In those cases it\’s usually best for everyone concerned if the marriage is dissolved, allowing the innocent spouse to move on with his or her life.
Fresh out of seminary, Rabbi Naomi Levy gave High Holiday sermons the way she thought they were supposed to sound — formal, ponderous, laced with phrases such as \”my dear friends.\”
For much of their history, Jews have been the masters of networking. Even before the destruction of the Second Temple, far-flung Jewish communities, usually through itinerant traders traveling precariously across the Mediterranean and land routes, maintained sophisticated communications networks with each other in a diaspora that extended from Palestine to Spain, in the West, and Persia, in the East.
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