One Day at a Time
Charlotte Hildebrand
May 23, 2002
The doors of the 107th Street Elementary School opened at noon; reggae music blared over the sound system and pizza was ready to be served.
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mitzvah
Hollywood Mitzvahs
Mike Levy
May 3, 2001
When one person helps another person, it\’s a mitzvah. When 1,500 people from 30 different organizations join together to help out in over 50 volunteering projects, it\’s Temple Israel of Hollywood\’s (TIOH) Mitzvah Day.
Fair Weight
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
May 3, 2001
Honesty, morality and ethical behavior — these are the calling cards of Leviticus, and they are the centerpieces of Jewish behavior and identity. Amongst the mitzvot enumerated in Leviticus 19 (known by some scholars as the \”Holiness Code\”) are respect for parents, charity for the poor, prohibitions against stealing and lying, a reminder to pay an employee\’s wages on time, the moral obligation not to take advantage of the deaf or blind, honesty and fairness in justice, prohibitions against holding grudges or exacting revenge, and the famous mitzvah to \”love your neighbor as yourself.\”
Good Deeds
Beverly Gray
January 11, 2001
When Becca Yuré turned 13, her enthusiasm for pandas became the focus of her Bat Mitzvah celebration.
Zayde Mitzvah
Mike Levy
January 11, 2001
Every Bar Mitzvah is special, but Al Greenberg\’s was special.
Called to the Torah
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
May 11, 2000
\”I think the experience of going through [Bar Mitzvah] when it meant something to me personally and spiritually… was so much richer an experience than it might have been doing it as a stupid 13-year-old kid.\” – Ron, almost 30 at the time of his Bar Mitzvah
Today I Am a Basket Case
Jewish Journal
January 13, 2000
From the introduction of Davis\’ book \”Whose Bar/Bat Mitzvah is it Anyway?\” \”You know the joke about how the child is supposed to say \’Today I am a man\’?\” Sandra asks. \”Yes.\” I nod tentatively. \”Well, for me it\’s going to be \’Today I am a basket case!\’\” she says, eyes welling with tears.
My Auschwitz Spoon Chanukah
Curt Schleier
December 2, 1999
One of the items I smuggled out of Auschwitz, when the Nazis moved me into Camp Number Eight — a quarantine camp, for those suspected of carrying typhus — was my spoon.
Casting their Differences Upon the Water
Wendy J. Madnick
September 16, 1999
Four West Valley synagogues representing three different denominations — the Calabasas Shul (Orthodox), Temple Solael (Reform), Temple Aliyah and Shomrei Torah (Conservative) — will join together for a Tashlich ceremony Sunday, Sept. 19, at the Westlake Village Marina.
Their Right of Passage
Michele Chabin
July 8, 1999
Hundreds of Israeli children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs every week, and 13-year-old Asher Gorsky did not want to be an exception.
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