When I got the call from Montreal, fortunately I was sitting down. The woman said her name was Bryna Wasserman, and she wanted to produce a musical based on the film I had made about Harry Houdini in 1976.
Changing the way a nation and a people think about themselves is not an easy job. But Yoram Hazony and his Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Shalem Center is attempting to do just that for Israel and the Jews.
During the Passover holiday I went on a picnic with family and friends.
Although we have always lived with threats to our physical survival, today\’s sense of uncertainty is heightened by the awareness that military power cannot resolve all the problematic issues we face.
On Tuesday night, a largely Israeli crowd of more than 60 people gathered at Westwood\’s Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel to honor the late Ofra Haza.
The blind boy, who agrees to talk so long as I don\’t identify him, is one of a floating population of 100-150 homeless, English-speaking teenagers living rough around Zion Square in the center of town: the unsung failures of aliyah and Jewish studies tours.
Anyone seeking explanations for a given period or event related to Moses need simply look to this well-organized volume.
Anyone from the Western part of the United States aspiring to national Jewish leadership has \”got to be an 11 on a scale of one to 10,\” Burton Levinson says.
\”It is disgraceful that there is not a single woman participating in the peace talks. It is disgraceful that there are not more directors general of ministries and chairpersons of government companies,\” said Yael Dayan. \”All we hear are promises, promises, but I hope something will change.\”
Some of the Torah\’s laws are difficult to comply with. Others are easier. One that certainly belongs in the latter category is the law that prohibits us from engaging in child sacrifice.
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