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personal
The Ashes of Memory
In \”Raising the Ashes,\” O\’Keefe has crafted a filmabout healing and rebirth unlike any other.
Torah Portion
Context is everything. Certainly, this must besaid concerning the curious opening of this week\’s Torah portion. Forthe portion opens with a command that has been issued many timesbefore: the command to observe the seventh day as a day of rest.
The Female Woody Allen
Julie Davis, a 28-year-old Dartmouthgraduate and former Playboy Channel editor, shot \”I Love You, Don\’tTouch Me!\” for an amazing $68,000.
Twelve Quick Years
Try as I will to guard against it, thepersonal always seems to intrude on my professional life.
Letters
J.J. Goldberg\’s column on Israeli Finance MinisterNeeman\’s proposal to gradually phase out American economic aid toIsrael missed several key points, leading readers to draw skewedconclusions (\”Foreign Aid as Shell Game,\” Feb. 13).
Up Front
Yes, Israel has bigger problems than its cats anddogs. But, as the cliché goes — we think it was original whenGeorge Bernard Shaw said it — the truest measure of a society\’sadvancement is how it treats its animals.
A One Woman Show With a Vengeance
Harriet Tubman, the fugitive-slave andabolitionist, was a kind of African-American Mata Hari.
LOVE
These are more stories of beshert, of relationships that are \”meant to be,\” with a little help from The Jewish Journal. Over the past year, at least five couples have called us to announce their personal-ad-inspired nuptials. And, no, they weren\’t ashamed to admit how they met. Gone is the stigma that ads are for people who are really desperate, they insist.\n
Singles: The Debate
I would like to offer a new spin on intermarriage. Some of us are choosing to marry non-Jews, not to escape our Jewishness but because it is our last chance to bear Jewish children and perpetuate a faith and people we love more than anything else.
New Articles
Israeli Singer Eden Golan Advances to Grand Final of Eurovision
Brave-ish wins Literary Titan Gold Book Award
Proud Jews, Despite Everything
ADL, Brandeis Center File Complaints Against Occidental, Pomona College Over Antisemitism
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