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A Mother’s Regrets — and God’s
Becoming a parent has brought great joy to my life. It has also forced me to struggle with the troublesome feeling of regret. When my son was an infant, I was working (more than) full-time as a congregational rabbi and regretted not being able to spend more time with him. Soon after my daughter was…
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As Virginia, New Jersey Elect Governors, a New Role for Women Pols
New Jersey and Virginia traditionally are the only states to vote for governor in the year after a presidential election, and so they are considered a referendum of sorts for a new administration in Washington. That’s one reason Democrats are so concerned this year about mobilizing usually reliable Jewish voters in these close races. But…
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With New York Picking a Mayor, the ‘Jewish Vote’ Is on the Wane
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has never worn his Jewish identity on his sleeve, but that doesn’t seem to have hurt him among New York City’s Jewish voters. In his successful 2005 re-election bid, he captured upward of 70% of the Jewish vote, according to exit polls, up from a little more than half of the Jewish…
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Arms Smugglers Into Gaza Face a New Foe: Egypt
As a consequence of the military action in Gaza and to please a new administration in Washington, Egypt has recently stepped up efforts to crack down on smugglers who use a network of tunnels to transport weapons to Hamas. This assessment comes from Israeli analysts and from informed sources who say that while Hamas is…
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Wexler’s Move May Lead to More Active Role for Think Tanks
Florida Democrat Robert Wexler’s recent decision to leave Congress and join a Washington policy center dealing with Middle East peace left many in this status-crazed city baffled. It is not every day that a successful politician chooses to resign midterm. An aftershock was also felt in the smaller think-tank community, where the entry of a…
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JFL’s End Prompts New Media Partnerships
The upheaval in the world of journalism has forced a new consolidation of Jewish media, as three niche publications announced recently that they were folding into larger Jewish organizations. Jewcy, the irreverent online Jewish magazine that was abandoned by its financial backers last February, announced on October 13 that it had been taken in by…
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Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
On a rain-drenched afternoon in Philadelphia, I entered a small underground room at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts to observe a rehearsal of “Resonances” — a new composition commissioned by Intercultural Journeys, an Arab/Jewish ensemble that utilizes the arts as a vehicle to produce dialogue between the Israeli and Arab peoples. In rehearsal…
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Jews Choose Tattoos
NEWS ITEM: More Jews are wearing tattoos, according to observers of that scene, including artists who specialize in the area and rabbis who have notices an upsurge of branding in their congregations. A fad’s erupted ’mongst the Jews: An impetus toward tattoos. There’s growing preference, it seems, For body-art with Jewish themes. Some rabbis, angered,…
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Glitz, Glamour and the Arts
REDFORD, RUSCHA, RUSHDIE AND HARMAN HONORED AT NATIONAL ARTS AWARD DINNER Artist Ed Ruscha, recipient of the Artistic Excellence Award at the October 5 Americans for the Arts 2009 National Arts Awards dinner, joked that all the evening’s honorees should collaborate on a film based on Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.” In response, Rushdie, who…
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Saving Pastrami on Rye
Nearly 80 years after their heyday — when they numbered roughly 2,000 in New York City alone — delis have found an unlikely young advocate in David Sax, the 30-year-old author of the newly published “Save the Deli.” Subtitled “In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen,” the book, published…
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Elder B’nai Mitzvahs Journey to Israel
In its centuries of existence, the Western Wall may have never played host to two more different prayer services at the same time. As young hippie-ish Hasidim beat on drums, singing ecstatically, nine elderly Americans from a retirement village in Cincinnati, Ohio, celebrated their belated bar and bat mitzvahs before the ancient stones. And history…
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