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Career Adviser Pushes New Paradigm for Job Seekers
As participants at the Orthodox Union workshop were filing out of the room, about 15 people flocked to the mysterious bald man in the back of the room. He proceeded to tell them all that he felt was wrong with what they had just heard. His name is Shlomo Gewirtz and he might be called…
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Cantor’s Voice, Not Cell Phones, Should Ring Out in Shul
What can be done about cell phones ringing during synagogue services? Our shul has a large sign in front of the sanctuary entrance that asks people to turn off their cell phones and pagers, but invariably at least one goes off. I find it grossly rude and disrespectful to be interrupted in this way. I’ve…
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Fear of Olympics Terror Hits Greece
The recent bombings in neighboring Turkey have triggered heightened concern among Greek authorities and Western intelligence officials about possible terrorist strikes during next summer’s Olympics games in Athens. Security experts and Western officials have long warned that a world event held in the heart of the Mediterranean, spread over more than two weeks and 50…
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Leaders Call for Commitment in Fighting AIDS
Jewish groups from across the denominational spectrum are calling on the community to help fight AIDS in Africa and other places hit hard by the pandemic. In an open letter to the Jewish community issued by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist leaders called on “synagogues and rabbis to renew…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL December 5, 2003
The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City is still making history, just as the Forward expected when it wrote of the Triangle company: “With blood this name will be written in the history of the American workers’ movement and with feeling will this history recall the names of the strikers of this…
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Newsdesk November 28, 2003
Hillel Leader Sued Los Angeles freelance journalist Rachel Neuwirth filed a complaint against UCLA Hillel Director Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles Hillel Council and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, in the Los Angeles Superior Court on November 20, seeking undisclosed damages for battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction…
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The Dead Speak: Tragedy and the Art of Adaptation
In Philip Roth’s 1993 novel “Operation Shylock,” an Israeli book dealer by the name of David Supposnik attempts to solicit support from “Philip Roth” — the character in the novel with the same name as the author — for the publication of the travel diaries of Leon Klinghoffer, the wheelchair-bound passenger murdered by Palestinian terrorists…
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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
Smacking the Saudis: Trying to sound tough on Middle East terrorism, former Vermont governor Howard Dean smacked Saudi Arabia in response to a question from Tom Brokaw during Monday night’s NBC-televised presidential candidate debate in Iowa. Asked by Brokaw whether he considered Saudi Arabia a “friend” or an “enemy,” Dean replied, “Seventy-five years ago, the…
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Arts & Letters; The Flaunted Necklace
Sunlight & Shadow: The Jewish Experience of Islam By Lucien Gubbay I.B. Tauris, 172 pages, $29.95. * * *| Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians By Francis E. Peters Princeton University Press, 328 pages, $29.95. * * *| The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times Edited by Reeva S….
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Echoes of Ataturk Seen in Turkey’s Strong Stand
When two synagogues were blown up this month in Istanbul, Turkey, the government reacted promptly and pointedly. It vowed to get the culprits. It had alternatives. It could have said that the bombing was regrettable but that America’s occupation of Iraq provoked the event. But the Turkish government said nothing of the sort. It took…
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The Business of Family In a Family Business
In 1999, the photographer Mitch Epstein was 48 years old and living in New York when his mother phoned him with bad news. Two teenage pranksters had burned down a boarded-up apartment building in Holyoke, Mass., owned by Epstein’s father. The flames, fanned by the windy night, had swallowed an entire block of the city’s…
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