Recently added articles from The Jewish Week:
City Challenged On Ritual Practice
Dec 23, 2006; Cohen, Debra Nussbaum ... Cohen, Debra Nussbaum The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Two pediatricians treating haredim say health commissioner hasn't made case against circumcision technique. Rebuking the city's health commissioner, two pediatricians with longtime practices in fervently Orthodox ...
In Sickness And In Health?
Dec 23, 2006; Ain, Stewart, Mitnick, Joshua ... Ain, Stewart, Mitnick, Joshua The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Sharon's stroke tests Kadima's viability. Although his Labor Party opponents insisted this week they would not make an issue of Ariel Sharon's health as he campaigns for re-election in March, the minor stroke that ...
Gawker Frums Out?
Dec 23, 2006; Birkner, Gabrielle ... Birkner, Gabrielle The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 "Who is this Hashem guy, anyway?" Andrew Krucoff jokingly asked. When Krucoff, a scribe for the popular gossip Web log, Gawker, arrived in Israel three weeks ago, he knew that Hashem was an alias for God but, admittedly, not ...
Nixing Kris Kringle Kugel
Dec 23, 2006; Birkner, Gabrielle ... Birkner, Gabrielle The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Ever since Seth Cohen first donned his Santa Claus-style kipa two years ago on Fox's hip, hit drama "The O.C.," christening the Chrismukkah holiday, there has been much ado over fusion of Christmas and Chanukah traditions. It has ...
At 82, A Career Illuminated
Dec 23, 2006; Ruby, Walter ... Ruby, Walter The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Boris Leskin vividly remembers the moment during the late 1970s when he realized he could no longer play the double game involved in being a creative artist in Soviet society. Today, an 82-year-old actor living in New York, who played ...
Needed: Birthright Israel For Adults
Dec 23, 2006 ... The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Among the more intriguing statistics gleaned from the 2005 American Jewish Committee survey of American Jewish opinion released this week is that 49 percent of those who have never been to Israel list "travel costs" as the primary reason. (Twenty ...
Between the Lines; The Jewish Person Of The Year
Dec 23, 2006; Rosenblatt, Gary ... Rosenblatt, Gary The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 The Person of the Year 2005 in Jewish life is Ariel Sharon, hands down. Even before the mild stroke he suffered this week brought new attention to the key role he plays in Israeli life, Sharon's importance was obvious. Whether ...
Intensive Care
Dec 23, 2006 ... The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 The mild stroke that Ariel Sharon suffered this week was a warning signal not only for his personal health, but for the health of the Israeli political system. Fortunately, the Israeli prime minister's physical recovery is expected to be complete, ...
Burglars Plaguing Brooklyn Shul
Dec 23, 2006; Dickter, Adam ... Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Repeated break-ins force dwindling congregation to upgrade security. Bernie Lazar dreads answering his phone these days if it rings in the morning. The president of Bnai Zion of Midwood fears it will be news of ...
Student Activism Moves From Rallies To Journals
Dec 23, 2006; Rosenblatt, Gary ... Rosenblatt, Gary The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Israeli think tank funding North American campus publications dealing with Jewish life. Last year, Bari Weiss was one of a small group of student activists on the Columbia University campus protesting the alleged anti-Israel ...
Solidarity On Stage
Dec 23, 2006; Dickter, Adam ... Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Yeshivah of Flatbush students join with program for disabled in Chanukah play written to boost spirits of West Bank communities. When Yeshivah of Flatbush High School students take the stage on Dec. 28 to perform "Noah! Ride The ...
Munich Terror, Up Close
Dec 23, 2006; Ain, Stewart ... Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 A teenaged Sean McManus sat in a TV control room for 16 hours while his father, sportscaster Jim McKay, told the world about tragedy unfolding at '72 Olympics. For Sean McManus, the Munich Massacre in 1972, strikingly re-created ...
In The Footsteps of Rev. King
Dec 23, 2006; Rosenberg, Merri ... Rosenberg, Merri The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Greenburgh temple's 'Civil Rights Journey' to the South offers area teens insights into history. White Plains -- Andrea Zlotowitz never realized there was more to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech than ...
'Victory For Science, Victory For Religion'
Dec 23, 2006; Ain, Stewart ... Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Rebuke to intelligent design hailed by much of Jewish community. The decision of a federal judge Tuesday to bar a Pennsylvania school district from teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology classes has ...
Birthright Israel Needs Your Help
Dec 23, 2006; Bronfman, Charles R., Steinhardt, Michael H. ... Bronfman, Charles R., Steinhardt, Michael H. The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 As Taglit-birthright israel completes its sixth year, edging close to 100,000 total participants thus far, it is no exaggeration to say that the program has ushered in a revolution in Jewish life. Despite ...
Why Hamas Should Be Allowed To Run
Dec 23, 2006; Eliach, Yotav ... Eliach, Yotav The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Israel yearns for peace, deserves peace and has taken serious risks to try to achieve peace. But that has not translated into Israelis having the peace they crave. No sovereign state, and certainly not Israel, can base its foreign ...
Dreidel Is More Than A Toy
Dec 23, 2006; Hirschfield, Brad ... Hirschfield, Brad The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Kids have played with dreidels on Chanukah for centuries, but these days dreidels are not just for children. In fact, playing dreidel on Chanukah has become so popular that we now have public events including the largest number of ...
Spielberg Loses His Rhythm
Dec 23, 2006; Robinson, George ... Robinson, George The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Too long and lacking a political punch, 'Munich' doesn't live up to the hype. Apart from the edifying spectacle of people passing judgment on the alleged bias of a film they admit they haven't seen, and the inevitable parade ...
Love In The Time Of Psychoanalysis
Dec 23, 2006; Robinson, George ... Robinson, George The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 In recent years, the border between documentary film and fiction has become more like a semi-permeable membrane. In the hands of Chris Marker or Ross McElwee, to name two of the most expert practitioners, the result has been the ...
The Great Bruts
Dec 23, 2006; Kronemer, Gamliel ... Kronemer, Gamliel The Jewish Week 12-23-2006 Six kosher sparklers for any occasion. Over the last 60 years, Western Europe has been moving towards greater political, economic, and cultural cohesion. Yet in spite of this ever closer unity, new disputes seem to constantly ...