E-tickets and a Tanach
Jane Ulman
August 22, 2002
This year, back-to-school shopping for my son, Zack, includes the requisite binders, notebooks and new pair of sneakers.
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‘Big Bad’ Debra
Naomi Pfefferman
March 7, 2002
In a sunny hotel room overlooking the Pacific, Debra Winger is telling Jewish tales as big and bad as \”Big Bad Love,\” her first film since abruptly quitting show business seven years ago. Her turquoise eyes well up and her raspy voice breaks as she breathlessly describes attending Manhattan\’s Congregation B\’nai Jeshurun a couple of days before her son, Noah, became bat mitzvah in 2000. \”It was the first time I was ever called to the Torah,\” says Winger, who wasn\’t allowed to have a bar mitzvah growing up in the Valley. \”My Orthodox grandmother wouldn\’t hear of a girl on the bimah.\”
A Voice Silenced: Daniel Pearl
Tom Tugend
February 28, 2002
Up until the very last moment, the family of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl never lost hope that he would be released by his Pakistani kidnappers and return safely.\n\n
Scott Elliott Sraberg
Jewish Journal
September 27, 2001
Scott Elliott Sraberg, infant son of Karen and Brad Sraberg, died Sept. 3.
Deja vu
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
September 13, 2001
September 11, 2001.
This morning, America woke up to the same nightmare that my parents did on February 6, 1985. On that morning, my parents in Los Angeles heard the news that a suicide bomber had attacked an Israel Defense Forces convoy in Southern Lebanon. Reports of casualties varied from 50 injured to 100 killed. My parent\’s ultimate nightmare was that their son, who had enlisted in the IDF seven months earlier, was a part of the convoy that had been attacked.
River of Life
Naomi Pfefferman
July 26, 2001
On Jan. 12, 1995, Valerie Sobel\’s 19-year-old son, Andre, died of a brain tumor. Exactly one year later, her husband shot himself. His suicide note stated that he did not wish to live past his son\’s tombstone unveiling. Three months later, Sobel\’s mother died of a stroke.
A Shore Thing
Michael Aushenker
July 26, 2001
"Pop" being veteran stand-up comic Sammy Shore, and the "weasel" being his son, Pauly "The Weasel" Shore, the king of \’90s lowbrow comedies ("Encino Man," "In The Army Now").
History in the Making
Naomi Segal
March 23, 2000
By the time the transplant team approached Doris Ullendorf and Ken Gorfinkle, they had already talked about donating the organs of their first-born son.
Climbing the Mountain
Naomi Pfefferman
November 4, 1999
Back in 1991, David Brenner was king of the comedy mountain.\nThe comic had appeared well over 100 times on the \”Tonight Show,\” which he often guest-hosted in the 1970\’s and \’80\’s. He enjoyed lucrative Las Vegas appearances and was a perennial guest on TV shows like \”Letterman.\”
Moses: A Neglectful Parent?
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
July 1, 1999
Can you name the sons of Moses? You\’re probably in good company if you can\’t. The fact of the matter is that other than their names, the Torah tells us virtually nothing about them. Their deeds and destiny are unknown.
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