Hoop Dreams Do Come True
Michael Aushenker
October 26, 2000
Rabbi Gabriel Elias vividly remembers his frustration as a teenager not being able to participate in intramural sports because games fell on Shabbat.
Category
israeli
Our Jamal
Helen Schary Motro
October 12, 2000
I stared with the rest of the horrified world at the photo of the anonymous Palestinian father holding his anonymous Palestinian son – father wounded, son dead.
True Meaning of Sacrifice
Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh
March 16, 2000
Now that my daughter is 11-weeks-old, I am beginning to understand the true meaning of the word \”sacrifice.\” At seven in the evening when I have finished working a long day and I would like to sit down for a meal with my husband, instead we take turns entertaining our daughter. That is sacrifice. At two in the morning in the midst of a dream which I would love to continue, instead, I muster up my strength to feed her. That is sacrifice.
Relief Is in Sight
Gil Sedan
September 2, 1999
A middle-aged man climbed up to the cabin of a crane and drew the operator\’s attention to a small suitcase on top of a pile of rubble left by last month\’s killer earthquake in Turkey.
Revisionist TV
Eric Silver
March 19, 1998
After 50 years of evasion, soft sell andhalf-truths, Israelis are coming to terms with the darker side oftheir own history.
Not For Sale
Ruth Stroud
March 12, 1998
An estimated 400 people packed the auditorium atthe Westside Jewish Community Center Tuesday night, prepared to chidethe leaders of the Jewish Community Centers of Los Angeles forseriously considering an Orthodox Jewish high school\’s offer to buythe center.
Letters
Jewish Journal
February 19, 1998
One of my pet peeves is people who make generalconclusions from rather sketchy specific facts.
New Articles
John Ondrasik, Jonah Platt Highlight AJC, ADL Press Briefing at UCLA Hillel
Aaron Bandler
May 3, 2024
Shabbat Prayer for Our College Students and Ourselves
Lisa Ellen Niver
May 3, 2024
1,400 Yizkors
Chaim Steinmetz
May 3, 2024
Being Good is Easier to Resist than Sweezy vs New Hampshire
Gershon Hepner
May 2, 2024
A Bisl Torah – Souls Connected
Rabbi Nicole Guzik
May 2, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.