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Stock Club Doubles the Pleasure
Investment clubs find all kinds of tricks to choose what to put their money into, from stocks their kids pick to socially conscious companies, and even brands that represent the products they use every day in their kitchens. But members of a group of investors in Cincinnati have found that their unique focus — investing…
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Group Goes Ape For Goodall
FRANCE REMEMBERS “LES JUSTES” — ACKNOWLEDGES ANTISEMITIC BARBARISM At a private March 4 reception held at the French Embassy in New York, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, France’s minister for culture and media, conferred the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor upon Philippe de Montebello,* the longest-serving director in the 135-year history of the…
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The Grand Scheme of Leviticus
A brilliant insight by one of the major biblical commentators of the Middle Ages is the discovery by Ramban (that is, Nahmanides, 1194-1270) that the tripartite division of the Tabernacle reflects the similar tripartite division of Mount Sinai. According to Exodus 19 and 24, during the revelation of the Decalogue, (a) the people as a…
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Ugly Allegations Fly as Fabled WJC Duo Splits
A surprise firing last week is threatening to tear apart the World Jewish Congress and appears to have shattered one of the most powerful partnerships in Jewish communal life. For decades, billionaire beverage mogul Edgar Bronfman and Rabbi Israel Singer were a dynamic duo, fighting global campaigns side by side while sharing a personal bond…
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Soros and Media Heavyweights Attack Pro-Israel Lobby’s Influence on U.S. Policy
Washington – The simmering debate over American policy toward Israel and the role of the Jewish community in shaping it exploded with near-nuclear force this week. Several of the nation’s best-known international affairs commentators fired salvos at pro-Israel lobbyists and defenders of Israel fired back with unprecedented fury. In the space of three days, major…
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Bagpipers and Babushkas Mourn Fallen Cop
On Sunday morning, March 18, Kings Highway in southern Brooklyn terminated in a thick blue line. At the intersection of Flatbush and Flatlands Avenues, in front of the modest I.J. Morris funeral home, more than 1,000 of New York’s finest gathered to remember and honor one of their own. The previous Wednesday, auxiliary police officer…
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Mezuza Comes Between Florida Woman and Her Condo Association
Lauderdale, Fla. – The Florida attorney general is investigating a condo association’s efforts to block one resident from affixing a mezuza to her front doorpost. At issue is the 5-inch mezuza that Laurie Richter, a 28-year-old lawyer, put up at the end of last year, when she began renting a unit in The Port, a…
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Israel Defends Boycott of Unity Government
Jerusalem – Just days after Palestinians formed a new unity government between the moderate Fatah and militant Hamas parties, Israel this week found itself struggling to defend an international boycott of the Palestinians that was rapidly crumbling. Last Sunday, March 18, one day after the new Palestinian government was sworn in, Israel’s Cabinet voted to…
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U.S., Israel at Odds Over Palestinian Coalition
Washington – The Bush administration has dealt Jerusalem and its allies a series of unexpected policy defeats regarding the formation of the new Palestinian unity government. Israel’s Cabinet decided earlier this week to boycott members of the Palestinian Authority governing coalition, and the pro-Israel lobby in the United States has called on the White House…
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Another Clinton Smackdown on Carter
Yesterday we reported on Bill Clinton diss of Jimmy Carter’s book in a letter to the American Jewish Committee. It turns out Bubba took a shot at Carter several weeks ago, in a March 6 appearance at the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County… The Union-Tribune reports… Clinton criticized former President Carter’s controversial book…
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The Right Fit: A Plethora of Haggadot
Arthur Miller once said that “Jews are very impatient with doing the same thing over and over again. It’s gotta be different!” The Jewish playwright’s observation seems particularly apt when applied to Passover — for, on the night that is different from all other nights, Jews fulfilling the vehigadeta mitzvah can choose from nearly 3,500…
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