In a sign that the new Jewish buzzwords of \”renaissance and renewal\” are intrinsically linked to education, a top Jewish education professional has been tapped to oversee a national push to infuse Jewish life with more meaning.
As sure as death and taxes, Israelis can count on a coalition crisis every year in the last week of December. It happened three times to the Likud\’s Binyamin Netanyahu, and no one was surprised that this month it happened to his Labor successor, Ehud Barak.
History isn\’t always the way we remember it. Memory plays tricks, stories grow in the telling, narrators fudge for effect. The passing of a century — or a millennium — seems a good time to look back and set things straight.
Having recently become excited about her Jewish heritage, Michelle Block wants to start off the new millennium with a trip to Israel.
The New York Times dubbed it \”a quiet revolution in the teaching of Israeli history.\”
Gloria Lenhoff is a musical marvel. She has perfect pitch and can sing, in a clear lyrical soprano voice and from memory, 2,000 songs in 25 different languages.
There was a time when news of the high school massacre in Littleton, Colo., would have struck Israelis as incomprehensible, evidence of some strange, alien disease floating around America, to which Israel was certainly immune.
Not anymore.
Representatives of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism in Israel have launched the country\’s first interdenominational conversion institute in the northern Galilee town of Carmiel.
Dr. Robert Wexler, president of the University of Judaism, has good reason to believe that the spirit of Zionism is alive at the institution.
\”Phantom,\” \”Les Mis,\” and now… \”Masada: The Musical.\”
\”Masada\” is based on the mass suicide of 967 Jews who preferred death to enslavement by the Romans who had held their desert mountaintop fortress under siege.
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