Rabbi Leder’s ten Money commandments
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
January 8, 2004
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The Answer Is Love
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
January 8, 2004
Excerpt from \”More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul,\” by Steven Z. Leder
A few years ago, I was called to see an extremely famous and wealthy movie director. He was a friend of a friend, and he was in the hospital. We were strangers, this dying old man and I. Entering his room, I noticed amid the monitors, tubes, and fluorescent lights of the sterile ICU, there was only one solitary breath of humanity tacked up on the wall — one small black-and-white photograph, some sixty years old, of a young couple in their twenties holding hands on a park bench.
How to Be Richand LiveSoulfully
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
January 8, 2004
There was a time when Adlai Wertman measured his success in dollars — how much he made for the company, how much the company paid him, how well he spent the money.
What is Ethiopean Judaism?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 18, 2003
Kess Hadane wears a deep blue velvet cape richly embroidered with gold and a white turban. But under the cape is the conventional white shirt and dark pants, and that might be more indicative of Kess Hadane\’s ardently assimiliationist philosophy.
Pressuring Israel on Ethiopian Aliyah
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 18, 2003
Twelve Jews died in Ethiopia this summer — two of famine, 10 of mostly treatable medical conditions — and Dick Giesberg wants to know what it says about the Zionist imperative when the Israeli government refuses to expedite the immigration of a suffering Jewish community.
Youth Charts Future for Ethiopian Jews
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 18, 2003
For most of the last hour in this bomb shelter-cum-multipurpose youth room in Ashdod, Israel, Avivit Sabat has been sitting quietly, her long arms and legs folded protectively across her body. Her hair, pulled tight in a low bun, highlights her delicately defined 17-year-old beauty.
Once or twice she twists around to smile or whisper to someone, or she nods at a particularly biting truth as told by her friends, all of them Ethiopian Jewish teenagers who founded and run an advocacy group.
Unaffilated Find Connection in LINK
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 18, 2003
When Simone Gold walked into Shalom Time at Borders Books in Westwood, the first thing she noticed was that she was not dressed quite as conservatively as many others in the audience, who wore long skirts and sleeves.
But her 2-year-old son was enjoying the Jewish songs, dances and shtick, and the endeavor seemed so sincere, she stayed, and even hung around to schmooze afterward.
Hancock Park Shul War Back in Court
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
August 21, 2003
The rabbi of a small, embattled congregation is charging that anti-Semites and self-hating Jews are using zoning laws to get Orthodox Jews out of Hancock Park as an epic eight-year legal battle heads back to court.
Moonstruck in Israel
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
August 21, 2003
The moon doesn\’t usually make me cry. I\’ve been struck by the amber beauty of a harvest moon low on the horizon or by the tantilizing grace of a silver sliver dangling high in the sky.
Torah, Prayer Then Death From the Air
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
June 12, 2003
The night before he died, 78-year-old Tibor Reis stayed up until 2 a.m. studying Torah. When he awoke early the next morning, he went to the mikvah (ritual bath) and then to pray at Young Israel of Los Angeles, where he had been a member for more than 30 years.
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