Once Again, Anti-Semitism
Jewish Journal
July 8, 1999
How worried should we be? The question refers, of course, to the rapid succession of hate crimes that have hit the front pages of newspapers across America.
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‘United Against Hate’
Tom Tugend
June 24, 1999
Under a giant banner that read \”Sacramento United Against Hate,\” some 4,500 citizens of all faiths and colors dedicated themselves to the fight against bigotry as their answer to coordinated arson attacks on three local synagogues.
A Place Where We All Feel at Home
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
April 8, 1999
This past summer, while leading a Jewish Heritage tour through Central and Eastern Europe, we spent Shabbat in the beautiful city of Prague.
God’s Fingerprints
Rabbi Janet Ross Marder
March 4, 1999
It was a Saturday morning in the middle of winter — bright and sunny and cold, with a sky washed clean by the wind.
Answering the Call
Eric Silver
February 18, 1999
Anne Roberts is passionate about the idea of tzedakah, a concept she has diligently instilled in her son Spencer Nieman.
Honor Bestowed
Beverly Gray
September 3, 1998
Joel Grishaver, everybody\’s favorite hip Jewish uncle, had been up half the night, schmoozing with a rabbi\’s son who was visiting from England. So when Grishaver answered the phone at 6:30 a.m., he was hardly prepared for the voice that said, \”You and I have a date for lunch in Washington on Sept. 15. You\’ve just won the Covenant Award.\”
L.A. 5758
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 2, 1998
As Rabbi Allen Freehling of University Synagogue in West Los Angeles and a bus load of bishops and rabbis left the Rome airport for their hotel near the Vatican, one of the bishops read aloud a document that would soon spark a firestorm of controversy around the world: the Vatican\’s March 16 statement on the Holocaust, released just hours before. The group had just flown in from Israel, where they had spent a week worshiping together, learning about each other\’s histories, and beginning to understand, as only true friends can, what the other believes.
Synagogues, Temples and Shuls
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
February 12, 1998
As Shabbat ebbs next week, try Young Israel ofCentury City for something a little sexy — namely, a lecture on \”TheFacts of Life: How to Teach Yeshiva Students,\” led by Rabbi Baruchand Michal Finkelstein.
It’s Time to Talk
Rabbi David Eliezrie
October 2, 1997
It\’s High Holiday speech season. Rabbis prep, call each other withideas, exchange jokes, insights, and witty stories. They ponder thegreat issues of the day and get ready for prime-time talking in therabbinical world. Synagogues may not be full throughout the year, butcome Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there is hardly an empty pew. Thisyear, attendance will be a bit higher, as Yom Kippur falls on aweekend.
Thai Tikvah
Jewish Journal
May 1, 1997
While that may sound like an old Jewish joke, it\’s an arrangement that well suits a community which feels at home in this overwhelmingly Buddhist nation but keeps a low profile.\n
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