While the current crisis may have deterred some schools and parents from participating in the exchange programs, Pressman Academy and Milken Community High School of Stephen S. Wise Temple demonstrate that such programs can thrive despite the tense security situation.
Years ago I\’d heard from someone or read somewhere that Wyatt Earp is buried in Colma, near San Francisco, a bit of provocative trivia whose truth I\’d never been sure of. One day a while back I decided to check it out. I would have thought that one of the most famous figures in the history of the Old West would have ended up in the landscape of his legend. In the case of Wyatt Earp, this would mean Dodge City, Wichita, or more appropriately, Tombstone.
It was Friday night in Shanghai, a major linchpin of the Jewish Diaspora, and folks from all over the world were dropping in to wish Rabbi Greenberg "Shabbat shalom."
A trip to the Emerald Isle, where folks go around kissing the Blarney Stone, has always been on our traveling wish list.
The series of innovative biking tours is developed by his Historical Cycling International, a recent entry in the growing field of Jewish-oriented travel services.
Melodic harmonies echo through Dominus Flevit, a small-but-quaint church on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, as a group of 30 Christian Bible scholars and pastors sing \”Hallelujah to the Lord,\” first in English, then Hebrew.
Built in 1955 on the ruins of an ancient church, the teardrop-shaped structure commands a breathtaking view of the eastern walls of Jerusalem\’s Old City. According to Christian tradition, Jesus, knowing his prophetic message would be rejected, wept here as he viewed the illusion of a tranquil city that, in fact, was bitterly divided, its Jewish population suffering under a brutal Roman occupation.
During the night of November 9, 1938-the so-called \”Kristallnacht\”–when synagogues and Jewish businesses throughout Germany were destroyed– Nazi forces also tried to set fire to Berlin\’s New Synagogue.
This past October I found myself, along with four other North American Jewish journalists, flying business class — a wonderful way to fly — to Croatia on Lufthansa Airlines.
A Chinese proverb has it that if you haven\’t sailed on the Chang Jiang — the Long River — you really haven\’t been anywhere. Better known as the Yangtze River to foreigners, the world\’s third longest river flows through the heart of China from the highlands of Tibet until it empties, after a 3,900-mile journey, into the East China Sea at Shanghai.
Usually, I\’m so used to the clutter that has accumulated inmy 1986 Honda Civic that I don\’t even notice it. Now and again,however, I squint and think to myself, \”Why am I seated in a mobilegarbage can?\”
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