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The choosers

Rob Eshman April 29, 2010

Last month, I was eating dinner alone at a neighborhood pizzeria when I overheard a conversation that made me stop mid-tongue burn.\n

Jews by Choice bolster ties with first Israel mission

Rachel Heller October 10, 2008

Service Reaches Out to Jews by Choice

David Finnigan September 8, 2005

It fit somehow that this recent Saturday service for converts to Judaism took place in a synagogue library. Because this gathering, at Temple Beth Am near Beverly Hills, was both an exercise in worship and in teaching. Maybe it even fit that this was a children\’s library, because many of the 40 adults who sat in folding chairs are young in relation to their Judaism.

This program, called Judaism by Choice, is \”a way of educating the people while they\’re in the service itself, teaching it while they\’re doing the service … the terms of the synagogue, the geography of the service,\” said Rabbi Neal Weinberg, the program\’s creator.

Political Journal

Idan Ivri April 28, 2005

Political Journal.

Your Letters

Jewish Journal April 15, 2004

It\’s a shame that in her zeal to pin the state\’s budget problems on the Democrats, Jill Stewart attacks the community colleges and the disabled community in her opinion piece, \”Math Problem\” (March 19).