Joshua Yaffa
By Joshua Yaffa
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Israel News A Fishy Union’s Untimely End
Married life turned out to be rather anticlimactic for Sharon Tendler. Last week, after a long-distance courtship streching more than 15 years, her beloved groom passed away — a mere six months after the couple’s marriage in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat. Workers at the Dolphin Reef aquatic park found the groom —…
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Culture Klezmer in the East Looks to the West for Guidance
Midway through its hauntingly minimalist performance on the opening night of Moscow’s second-annual klezmer festival, the vocal quartet Ashkenazim took a dramatically long pause to introduce the song “Dem Shokhens Meydl.” The group’s tenor, Alina Ivakh, explained that song is an allegorical tale of two young pioneer girls — the Soviet version of Girl Scouts…
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Israel News Bringing ‘Shalom’ Into Oprah’s Afternoon Home
Look out, Dr. Phil — Oprah Winfrey just may be auditioning a new protégé. Just a few short weeks after hosting Elie Wiesel, the talk show diva will have as her guest an author and radio personality, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who will dispense his trademark brand of Jewish-inspired family counseling. The show will be devoted…
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Israel News Et Tu, Brody?
As the only two Orthodox Jewish contestants on this season’s “The Apprentice,” Lee Bienstock and Daniel Brody often would discuss their faith with other cast members as they vied for the right to spend one year working under the tutelage of Donald Trump. Brody and Bienstock were known to frequent synagogue together, and they shared…
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Israel News Florida Team Strikes Out
For the second year in a row Jewish Heritage Day has belonged to first baseman Mike Jacobs. On August 21, 2005, the California native electrified the hometown New York Mets fans when he was called up from the minors as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning of a game against the Washington Nationals and…
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Israel News Birthright Celebrates a Milestone
On Monday, June 5, Stephanie Lowenthal will embark on a trip taken by 99,999 others before her: a 10-day tour of Israel that is paid for by Taglit–Birthright Israel, a philanthropic organization that sponsors excursions throughout the Holy Land for young Diaspora Jews. Lowenthal — who works in corporate communications for the Nasdaq stock exchange…
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News National Guardsman Refuses Deployment To Patrol Border
While the Senate expressed its approval Monday of a Bush administration plan to deploy the Natinoal Guard along the American-Mexican border, a Jewish member of the Pennsylvania force is publicly refusing to accept such an order. Brian Kresge, a seven-year veteran of the armed forces, first articulated his position on his personal blog last week….
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News Rose Thering, Led Interfaith Efforts
Sister Rose Thering, a lifelong advocate for improving interfaith relations between Catholics and Jews, died May 5 at the age of 85. Thering grew up in the largely Catholic town of Plain, Wis., and joined the religious community of the Sisters of St. Dominic at the age of 16. During her doctoral studies at Saint…
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