Open Wilda Spalding\’s \”little black book,\” and you\’ll discover a code of ethics — written in part by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted by the United Nations in 1948: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Powerful women in Hollywood, back in 1978, were as prevalent as communists during the blacklist. Probably even less so. That\’s when Loreen Arbus came to town.
While most 13-year-olds gleefully rip wrapping paper off their abundant bar/bat mitzvah presents and dream of ways to spend their gift money, a growing number of teens are opting to make their bar/bat mitzvah more meaningful.
Aphilanthropic couple and a young family with a preschooler are to be recognized at the 9th annual Jewish Family Service of Orange County (JFS) dinner celebrating family.
"Why is the festival of Shavuot called \’The time of the giving of our Torah\’ and not the time of the receiving of our Torah? Because the giving of the Torah happened at one specified time, but the receiving of the Torah happens at every time and in every generation. — Rabbi Meir Alter of Ger"
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Even a wizard at niche marketing would tremble before the title of Julie Salamon\’s most recent book. "Rambam\’s Ladder," based on an ancient text by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, sounds like it\’s bound for the remainder bins even before it hits the Judaica sections.
\”I\’m more nervous about the speech than I am about reading the Torah,\” Jonathan Shainberg told The Journal. \”When you are reading the Torah you aren\’t looking at people, but when you give the speech you have to look out at the whole crowd and seeing the faces makes me nervous.\”
Tricia called Jewish National Fund (JNF) to find out if she could plant a tree in Israel for each guest invited to Danielle\’s bat mitzvah. \”It turns out JNF has exactly such a program set up already,\” Tricia said.
Our Torah portion employs an enigmatic turn of phrase that appears quite instructive in this regard. As God commands Moses to solicit the necessary stuff to build the Sanctuary, He demands that the Jews \”take for Me a portion.\”
Rabbi Leder\’s ten Money commandments
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