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Sharon Brous Naomi Levy
SHARON BROUS NAOMI LEVY While the institutional leaders of Conservative Judaism struggle to find a compelling message and arrest their movement’s decline, a handful of young Conservative-trained rabbis are finding their own ways to revitalize the broad middle of Judaism between Reform and Orthodoxy. We could have chosen some senior rabbis working imaginatively in the…
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Naftali Neuberger, Led Famed Baltimore Seminary
The voice on the phone several years back could have belonged only to one of two people, and I really had no reason to imagine that Henry Kissinger would be calling me. To my greater honor, the caller was Rabbi Naftali (Herman) Neuberger, president of Baltimore’s Ner Israel Rabbinical College (where I studied in the…
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Jessica Coen And Jesse Oxfeld
JESSICA COEN AND JESSE OXFELD Gawker.com may describe itself officially as “the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip,” but read deeper and you’ll quickly figure out that Jews, media and sex — which the Web site’s editors call “the Holy Trinity of our existence” — is a more accurate list of its preoccupations….
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Ideological Rifts Threaten Sharon’s Political Coalition
Prime Minister Sharon was dealt a stinging defeat this week when eight members of his own Likud Party joined the opposition Monday to block the appointment of two of his ministerial appointments. The defeat raised the prospect of early elections. Eight Likud members — including Sharon’s top party rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposed the Gaza…
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What Little I Know About Medicine
I thought I would title this month’s column “What I Don’t Know About Medicine,” but my editors want 800 words, not an encyclopedia. What I do know about medicine should fit nicely into the space allotted. The rotation I’m starting this week is known in hospital jargon as the sub-internship; the registrar’s office calls it…
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Florida School Board To Keep Religious Holidays
Following a firestorm of criticism, a Florida school board voted Monday to abandon its plan to drop all religious holidays except for Christmas from the school calendar. The Hillsborough school board, representing a district that includes Tampa and surrounding suburbs, scrapped its plan to keep classrooms open on Yom Kippur, Good Friday and the Monday…
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Haplessly Turning the Tables on a Poker Ace
the hapless jewish writer once lost $50 in less than five minutes, playing texas hold’em. The loss occurred at a somewhat sketchy underground poker room that was run by Orthodox Jews in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and featured free punch and Hydrox cookies. The HJW asked for $50 in poker chips (the lowest…
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Newsdesk November 11, 2005
Ex-Aide Rips White House A former top official in the Bush administration used his appearance Monday at a West Point conference on the treatment of prisoners to step up his criticisms of his former Bush administration colleagues. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to then-secretary of state Colin Powell, suggested that a National…
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New Film Peers Into the Teenage Jewish Closet
To proclaim “Hineini” — the Hebrew word for “Here I am” — is perhaps also to posit a question: If this is who I am and I stand here, who are you and where do you stand? Then, maybe, who are we and where do we stand? On November 13, a 60-minute documentary bearing this…
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French Jewish Delegation Cites Progress
Just as France was engulfed in a wave of rioting, a delegation of French Jewish leaders visited New York last week to deliver a decidedly upbeat message. In meetings with American Jewish communal leaders, members of the French delegation — representing the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, known as CRIF — described France…
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Paying Tribute to a Master Yiddishist
During an intermission of the Gotham Chamber Opera’s October 17 performance of excerpts from Handel’s “Ariadne Unhinged” and the duet from Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers,” hosted by British consul-general Sir Philip Thomas at his home on Manhattan’s East Side, Carl Bernstein (of Woodward and Bernstein of the Watergate exposé) told me, “My great uncle Itzev-Isidore…
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