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‘If She Couldn’t Pay, She Couldn’t Pray’
Last year, I experiencedsomething that made me feel more emotion than I can remember everhaving during the Ten Days of Awe, and, unfortunately, the feeling was that ofanger toward other Jews.
And Now, For Something Completely Different
Every few years, I fall in love with Judaism fromanother perspective, one that fills me with an urgency I can\’t keepto myself.
Repentance and Recovery
T\’shuvah, which in Hebrew translates as \”repentance, return andresponse,\” is not only part of the name of Gateways Beit T\’Shuvah,the Los Angeles halfway house for recovering Jewish offenders andaddicts. \”It\’s very much a part of what we do here,\” ExecutiveDirector Harriet Rossetto said during a recent interview.
Chabad’s Shofar Factory…
Thousands of Los Angeles-area youngsters participate in hands-on workshops.
An Open Heart
How close can two people of disparate religiouspractices become? On Shabbat, who knows?
Our Message to Israel
Even without the immediacy of the telephone, the fear, wearinessand anguish that Israelis are feeling is as close to us as thenightly newscast or the morning paper.
On Valor, Violinists and Vacations
As Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe in the late 1980s andearly 1990s, Kaufman traveled widely and tracked the stories andmemories of four Jews and one Catholic, and their families, duringthe momentous 51 years.
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