I have a picture of my daughter the first time she dressed up for Purim. She is 4 years old, her bangs too short as a result of a self-inflicted haircut, her face round and perfect as a green apple.
Michal Amir prefers "a Jewish conversation." Entering her second year as co-chair of a donor support program called Face-to-Face, Amir believes the phrase is a more accurate description of the Super Sunday tradition aimed at strengthening ties between big donors ($1,000 or more) and The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.
What\’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? The answer to the old joke — "I don\’t know and I don\’t care" — has often been used to define young Americans of the past decade.
With the Days of Awe just behind us, it might do us all good to consider the content of the prayers we collectively uttered.
I was all set to write an end of year/end of century column for this week\’s issue. You know, the prospects for a future that looks exciting, but also that seems new and unfamiliar and even a bit threatening to someone over 40.
There was a telling moment, midway through the Sept. 7 press conference announcing the CBS-Viacom megamerger, when one of the unmentionables of American entertainment peeked through the veils for an instant.
Israeli scientists, like their colleagues worldwide, are thinking smaller and smaller. The world\’s first computer occupied an entire room.
Ronald Steven Lauder has a dream.
At some point in the future, Israel\’s Negev desert, now \”basically Arizona without people,\” will be a lush garden spot, made fruitful by a string of desalination plants purifying seawater.
Another year come and gone. Another one beginning. For me, an occasion more for recollection than repentance.
Rabbi Michael Melchior of Jerusalem has one heck of a job ahead of him.
Newly appointed to Ehud Barak\’s Cabinet, he\’s got the unenviable assignment of trying to make Jews get along with each other.
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