Anti-Semitism, I learned on a recent trip through France, is alive and pervasive. Nor, I discovered with some surprise, was the rabbi or those in charge of the synagogue overreacting.
Numbers never tell the whole story, but these come close. By retaining control of the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian populations therein, Israel will either cease to be a primarily Jewish State, or will become an undemocratic one, where a Jewish minority rules an Arab majority.
I was in Washington, D.C., this week and had a meeting with a senior officer of the World Bank, who is from Bombay. As we ate our dinner, the conversation turned to ethnicity.
Having survived the eight days, you\’re back to breaking bread, but questions about the Passover holiday still linger.
It may have been a silent film, but Paul Wegener made an international noise with "Der Golem." The 1920 German Expressionist classic — screening April 21 at the Skirball Cultural Center — remains a popular incarnation of the Golem.
While the summer is still a good four months away, the race to register for Jewish overnight camp has already kicked into high gear.
Thousands of Israeli students are learning what it means to be good Jews.
The media has been busy for months with \”One People, Two Worlds\” (Schocken Books, 2002), the book I co-authored with Ammie
Hirsch, and the promotional tour from which I withdrew after two appearances in deference to the Council of Torah Sages.
It was supposed to have been a happy day. Strangely enough, it was.
The study, \”Can Watching a Movie Lead to Greater Jewish Affiliation?\” insists that the burgeoning Jewish film festival scene holds not only big box-office potential, but the possibility of moving unaffiliated Jews \”along the continuum of Jewish involvement.\”
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