A yeshiva outgrew its downtown quarters and moved to the former site of an upstate boys\’ academy. Finding a boathouse on the property, the Rosh Yeshiva called in one of the rabbis and ordered him to organize a rowing team.
My neighbors completed an around-the-world trip. It was their dream, the trip of a lifetime. When we gathered to welcome them home, they eagerly described the journey\’s highlights — the Sheraton in Bangkok, the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing, a Clint Eastwood film in a Calcutta theater, Budweiser in Holland and Kellogg\’s Corn Flakes in Great Britain.
At next week\’s Shavuot services, the moving words from the Book of Ruth, expressing the biblical convert\’s pledge of fidelity to Judaism, will be read in synagogues around the world.
Rabbi Maller has written dozens of articles on conversion during his 30 years at Temple Akiba, Culver City. In \”God, Sex and Kabbalah\” (Samuel Weiser), he notes that many converts to Judaism were found to have Jewish ancestors.\n\n\n
Because of our sins were we exiled from our land, and displaced far from our soil.\”
When Mendel Moscowitz is transported from Brooklyn to ancient Egypt, the juxtaposition of a whiny New Yorker on the eve of the Exodus is supposed to create the setting for campy high jinks and musical hilarity.
Donald Freed is a rarity among playwrights: He is primarily an ideologue who, instead of producing documentary films or constructing journalistic accounts of the \”truth\” behind the news headlines, writes plays.
Many members of the Los Angeles Jewish community along with numerous dignitaries, including Gov. Pete Wilson, gathered last Sunday to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, during ceremonies at Sinai Temple and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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