The Jewish Journal introduces a new weekly column: My Jewish Library. We\’ve asked rabbis, scholars and thinkers to each pick the one book that was essential to their Jewish life. They will discuss the book and its impact, and explain why you need to add it to your Jewish library.
When it comes Chanukah, you\’ve got eight nights to get your gift giving right. Our Gift Guide points you toward a cornucopia of categories for every evening of the Festival of Lights.
These days, many women complain about the epidemic of males who run in terror from the thought of a committed relationship.
UCLA\’s 32-year-old Jewish newsmagazine Ha\’am has been struggling with growing pains over the past year. Last spring saw the release of their first print edition in five years, and the staff planned to make it a quarterly publication. That\’s still the goal, but their follow-up issue just recently hit the stands in time for, again, spring.
Evan Marc Katz has never had a bad Internet date.
The most successful matchmakers in the Jewish community don\’t want to talk romance.
His own romance \”happened so long ago, there is really not much to say about it,\” Alon Carmel, the co-founder, of JDate.com, the largest Jewish online personals site, tells The Journal when asked for some personal tips of the romance trade.
Carmel\’s business partner, Joe Shapira, is even less inspiring.
Not very romantic? I was stunned. Did I miss something here? Is it our anniversary? It\’s our first meeting, for crying out loud!
\”I got hooked peering into the lives of strangers,\” said Jed Weintrob, a self-described Jewish \”techno geek.\” \”It was both calming and mind-blowing to log on and see Jenni on Jennicam.org who was also awake at 4:30 a.m., but in the end it was also kind of alienating…. You\’re watching this person do the most intimate things, yet you\’re never going to know them or touch them.\”
Written by Milton Steinberg, the book is based on a historical character, a renegade rabbi who lived during the Roman conquest of Judea and was excommunicated.
With software packages like Family Tree Maker and the growing availability of genealogy databases online, family-tree research is being marketed to consumers as an easy, accessible hobby. According to a 2000 Maritz Research poll, nearly 60 percent of people surveyed expressed an interest in genealogy, a 15 percent increase from 1995.
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