Recognizing alcohol\’s long-standing presence in Jewish custom, tradition and culture — especially on Purim, when drinking is a mitzvah — and hearing from some rabbis that it would be impossible to have shuls go completely dry, Aleinu has tried to work directly with the shuls and parents to take responsibility for their teens.
\”Eve is the soul of the Food Pantry. She just knows that people cannot be hungry and we need to do whatever is necessary,\” said Joy Grau, a member of St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church in Studio City and a 15-year volunteer.
\”Homelessness is curable and we must cure it,\” Leo Baeck Senior Rabbi Kenneth Chasen said in his welcoming remarks. \”Jews know too well the experience of being strangers and outsiders. We have lived in countless places where there were no homes for us.\”
In addition to my business, I always take on the opportunity to help in my own community. I believe that it is important to help out whenever you can, whether it\’s picking up trash at the beach or working at a charity benefit, as well as taking on new challenges.
It was July 12, 1984, my first day on the Ketziot basic training base, my new \”home\” as an IDF soldier in the Givati Infantry Brigade. One by one, we were issued what was then the standard IDF infantry weapon, the Israeli-made Galil rifle.
\”I realized that if you have the ability to help other people, you\’re in a pretty good place,\” says Debbie Tenzer. \”It\’s not always easy, because basically, we\’re selfish creatures, many of us struggling every day. We have to make a choice, and it starts by doing just one nice thing.\”
The Times\’ editors no doubt also took into account the fact that reports on financial tracking had appeared numerous times before, beginning with the president\’s 2001 announcement that his administration would do everything in its power to disrupt the source of terrorist funding.
The Haggadah tells us \”you were strangers in the land of Egypt.\” Here is the interesting thing — because we were strangers, we are supposed to learn not how the Israelites should have acted, but — how the Egyptians should have acted. We are supposed to learn how not to oppress others. Don\’t treat others the way we were treated.
The situation is extraordinarily complicated. Human rights groups say the rebels are also responsible for abuses, including looting humanitarian aid convoys. Chadian bandits encouraged by Sudan\’s actions also prey on the tribal population. Still, if the Sudanese government could be taken to task and forced to stop the abuses, most would stop.
The news these days is gruesome, so it\’s difficult to feel celebratory.
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