A couple of years ago, I got stuck on the M14 crosstown bus at rush hour. This is because I am an idiot. But it gave me ample time to chat with my seatmate, an elderly Jewish woman who, as it turns out, had lived on my street as a child. She laughed out loud…
The author of the article “Why the Democratic Party Needs Generation Y,” David Wallis, was misidentified in the July 4 issue. He is the editorial director of Featurewell.com, not Tikkun. Senator Blanche Lincoln was misidentified in the June 6 editorial “Chutzpah.” She represents the state of Arkansas. Robert Meth was misidentified in the June 13…
At the July 1 Jewish Community Relations Council of New York presentation “A Walk Through Jewish Iraq,” Alice Hecht, chief administrative officer of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, using slides and film clips, recapped her 1996 through 1998 visits to Baghdad’s old Jewish quarter “between weapons’ inspections.” Describing services at “the only functioning…
Run of the Rumor Mill: Forget the so-called cabal of neoconservative “chicken hawks” whose oil interests supposedly drove the Iraq war redux. The real movers and shakers in occupied Baghdad, according to rumors spreading around the Saddam-less capital, are the Mossad and the Jewish Agency for Israel, under the overall leadership of former Jerusalem mayor…
Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad…. And they stood before Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying… [Numbers 27:1-2] “I am Machlah, one of the daughters of Zelophehad. We are five sisters altogether. Tirzah is our center. Dreamy Tirzah….
WASHINGTON — A Bush administration attempt to enlist churches, mosques and synagogues in the fight against teenage drug use is dividing Jewish organizations, but not along usual lines. The White House initiative has drawn support from B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and United Jewish Communities, the roof body of Jewish community federations in North America. But…
A recurrent feature in the Forverts is titled “Mishpokhe Khendlekh,” which may be roughly translated as “Household Humor.” In other words, it is humor fit for the mishpokhe. Indirectly, it makes a point: One can be funny without being smutty. What follows are two such delightful stories. (The column is edited by Rukhl Schaechter.) The…
Lawmakers Back P.A. Aid Two staunchly pro-Israel Jewish members of the House of Representatives, Democrats Gary Ackerman of New York and Howard Berman of California, joined California Democrat Rep. Lois Capps in urging fellow House members to send President Bush a letter supporting his plan to send aid directly to the Palestinian Authority. In a…
“Israel Unwrapped” features roughly a dozen panoramic photographs of historic, religious and scenic sites in Israel by the self-taught, Chicago-born Andy Alpern. The photographs — including “Copper Kotel: The Western Wall at Night,” “The Shuk Vol. 1: Machane Yehudah,” “Dead Sea: Ashanti Camp Site,” “Arizal’s View” in Safed and “The Banias Waterfall” — were taken…
OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal appeals court in San Francisco has granted political asylum to an Israeli Arab who claims that he suffered from persecution at the hands of the Israeli government and military. As a result of last week’s ruling, Ibrahim Baballah; his wife, Ula, and their teenage son, Ahmad, can’t be deported from…
The Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El presents “Torah Under the Trees,” three Central Park walking tours and text-study programs led by architectural historian Anthony Robins and the center’s director, Rabbi Leon Morris. Biblical and rabbinic texts are studied on the following themes: “Returning to the Garden of Eden,” “The Struggle Between…
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