The Jewish Week back issues from December 2005:
Between The Lines; Steinhardt To Orthodox: Drop 'Myopia,' Aid Other Jews
Dec 02, 2005;
Election '06: Israel Looking Inward; Seething In Sderot: Post-Gaza, a new focus on economic issues
Dec 02, 2005;
Election '06: Israel Looking Inward; Corruption Watch: Conviction of Sharon's son could clean up the campaign.
Dec 02, 2005;
Outreach All The Rage
Dec 02, 2005;
Born To Kvetch
Dec 02, 2005;
Klez Xmas Contretemps
Dec 02, 2005;
Sweet Spell Of Success
Dec 02, 2005;
Hezbollah Warning
Dec 02, 2005
MDA Saga May Be Over
Dec 02, 2005
Spacing Out In Southampton
Dec 02, 2005;
How Israel Deals With Ethics Of War
Dec 02, 2005;
Chabad's Global Warming
Dec 02, 2005;
Shabbat On The Stairmaster
Dec 02, 2005;
Make Me A Match
Dec 02, 2005;
Why Criticize Israel's Strongest Allies?
Dec 02, 2005;
Global Warming: Why Jews Should Care
Dec 02, 2005;
On When To Forgive
Dec 02, 2005;
PLO, PA Must Pay Up
Dec 02, 2005;
New Life For Biography
Dec 02, 2005;
The Fight Before The Fight
Dec 02, 2005;
Spiritual Traveler
Dec 02, 2005;
Identity Crisis
Dec 02, 2005;
The First Melting Pot
Dec 02, 2005;
America On The Dial
Dec 02, 2005;
Welcome Mat For Teen Olim
Dec 02, 2005;
Party Jockeying As Contact Sport
Dec 02, 2005;
Oded Fehr's Holy War
Dec 02, 2005;
The Rabbi And The Vamp
Dec 02, 2005;
New Voices
Dec 02, 2005;
Ladino At La MaMa
Dec 02, 2005;
Behold The Great Synagogue
Dec 02, 2005;
Mom Loved Him Best
Dec 02, 2005;
A Song Of Thanksgiving
Dec 02, 2005;
Conservative Leaders Call For New Openness
Dec 09, 2005; ... Birkner, Gabrielle The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Gillman says drop halachic constraints; Epstein calls for aggressive outreach to intermarrieds. BOSTON -- Responding to perceptions that Conservative Judaism is spiritually listless and on the decline, a major thinker in the ...
God's Welterweight
Dec 09, 2005; ... Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Brooklyn's Dmitriy Salita, 'Kid Kosher,' defends his title -- after he davens. This champ sees God in the speed bag, halacha in the heavy bag, and when he does his roadwork on the streets of Midwood, he feels the presence of ...
Spielberg's Anti-Schindler?
Dec 09, 2005; ... Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Even before its Dec. 23 release, Steven Spielberg's movie, "Munich," which Time magazine calls his "secret masterpiece," is creating angst among some Jewish leaders. "After 'Schindler's List,' he became the darling of the Jews," ...
Remembering Refuseniks
Dec 09, 2005; ... Ruby, Walter The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Michael Beizer, a soft-spoken former physicist, is refusing to let the refusenik movement pass quietly into history. It's no wonder, since Beizer, 55, was a refusenik himself, waiting in his hometown of St. Petersburg for 72 years ...
Shelter Of Peace
Dec 09, 2005; ... Lipman, Steve The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Unlike most middle-class 16-year-olds, Annie Rose London of Hoboken, N.J., feels comfortable in homeless shelters. She has volunteered at several, and at soup kitchens in the New York area, for a few years. And unlike most ...
Voice Lessons
Dec 09, 2005; ... Schleier, Curt The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Early in her career, Judy Kaye was an understudy to Madeline Kahn in "On the Twentieth Century." A reporter just happened to be in the wings on the night when Kaye took on the star's role for the first time. He heard a stagehand ...
Emphasis On Conversion
Dec 09, 2005 ... The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Faced with the reality of assimilation and intermarriage in our society, the liberal Jewish religious movements are readjusting their views and committing to a more aggressive approach to outreach and conversion. Last month the leader of the ...
Between the Lines; Bringing Russian Jews Into The Fold
Dec 09, 2005; ... Rosenblatt, Gary The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 More than 20 percent of the Jewish community of New York is Russian speaking. That fact has been known to demographers and communal professionals for several years. But the implications beyond the hard numbers remain largely ...
Terror In Netanya
Dec 09, 2005 ... The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 This week's suicide bombing in Netanya, killing five Israelis, is a sober reminder that the Palestinian terror war that began more than five years ago cannot be thought of in the past tense. The blood and grief are still with us. Fortunately, the ...
Win For East Hampton Rabbi's Critics
Dec 09, 2005; ... Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Court order prevents overthrow of trustees holding up contract. After thwarting an attempt to oust them on Sunday with an 11th-hour court order, trustees at The Jewish Center of the Hamptons say they will reach a decision early ...
Finding Uncommon Ground
Dec 09, 2005; ... Dickter, Adam The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Jews and Evangelicals explore the boundaries of their relationship at JTS conference. At the end of his presentation last week in a panel titled "Christian America?" Rev. Richard Cizik, an Evangelical lobbyist in Washington, ...
Offit: Mega-Philanthropists 'Arrogant'
Dec 09, 2005; ... Rosenblatt, Gary The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 UJA-Federation president, honored this week, calls for partnership rather than rivalry. Morris Offit, president of UJA-Federation, still seems upset about a public confrontation that took place last month at the General ...
No Palestinian Palliatives
Dec 09, 2005; ... Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 New PLO rep wins few Jewish friends at New York luncheon. Among his friends, David Stone said he is "viewed as a crazy left-winger" for his opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he confessed to walking out of a meeting ...
A New Phase In Reform Piety
Dec 09, 2005; ... Borowitz, Eugene B. The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 We have reached the second phase of Reform Jewish piety. The notion of pious Reform Jews will strike some people as incongruous, but if piety means taking your religion to heart and, in our case, trying in your own way to ...
Challenges Facing The Next JTS Chancellor
Dec 09, 2005; ... Klagsbrun, Francine The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 There has been so much talk about whether the Jewish Theological Seminary should ordain gay rabbis, one might suppose that is the only issue confronting Conservative Judaism, whose United Synagogue section held its biennial ...
Fashion Week
Dec 09, 2005; ... Leibovitz, Liel The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Two major new exhibits explore the stylish, the beautiful and the famous. Ralph Waldo Emerson, no stranger to meditating on the subject of beauty, once noted that love of beauty is taste, and the creation of beauty is art. In an ...
The Knight In A Black Velvet Kipa
Dec 09, 2005; ... Brawarsky, Sandee The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 In his new book, England's chief rabbi puts out a passionate call to active social responsibility. Sitting with Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, I realize that I'm one degree of separation from the Queen of England, the Archbishop of ...
Mystical Mishap
Dec 09, 2005; ... Merwin, Ted The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Jewish Theater's 'Kabbalah' offers more crudity than enlightenment. Is there a better subject for a contemporary Jewish play than kabbalah? The idea that Hebrew letters and texts have magical properties -- think, for example, of the ...
Yale Strom, Coast To Coast
Dec 09, 2005; ... Robinson, George The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 I'm sitting in my office, looking at snowdrifts and ice on the Hudson. In the meantime, Yale Strom is in San Diego, where the sun is shining and the temperature is 69 degrees. Of course, he's working, but I can't help feeling a ...
Power-Packed Sao Paulo
Dec 09, 2005; ... Larson, Hilary The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Americans dreaming of Brazil no doubt are imagining Rio de Janeiro -- bikinis, beaches and samba -- but Sao Paulo, despite its lack of any instant touristic association, is probably a more intense and unique experience for the ...
Grace For Those Without Meals
Dec 09, 2005; ... Hoffman, Lawrence A. The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 So what do you think? Does God feed the hungry? Jacob thinks so. In this week's parashah, he awakens from his famous dream, where God promises, "I will bless you and keep you wherever you go. ... I will not forsake you." But ...
TETHERED TOGETHER
Dec 27, 2005;
Dual Devotions
Dec 27, 2005;
And Baby Makes Two
Dec 27, 2005;
'Affirmative Action' For Intermarrieds?
Dec 09, 2005; ... Birkner, Gabrielle The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Conservative movement unveils extensive plan to engage members' non-Jewish spouses, reach their children and encourage conversion. BOSTON -- Acknowledging that Conservative institutions have been hard pressed to attract and ...
Road Weary
Dec 09, 2005; ... Chabin, Michele The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Finding a place to live among a host of woes facing displaced Gazans, who are pinning blame on the government. JERUSALEM -- In the months preceding the Gaza disengagement, Debbie Rosen, a soft-spoken former spokeswoman for the ...
Fall From Grace
Dec 09, 2005; ... Mitnick, Joshua The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Combat soldiers were heroes at 'hesder' yeshivas and to religious settlers. That's all changed -- drastically. ELON MOREH, WEST BANK -- A copy of the anti-disengagement letter signed by Elyakim Levanon, the head rabbi of the ...
Restrained Response To Netanya Bombing
Dec 09, 2005; ... Ain, Stewart, Mitnick, Joshua The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Israel will target Islamic Jihad infrastructure rather than launch West Bank attack, foreign minister says. Israel's response to the suicide bombing Monday outside a Netanya mall that killed five apparently will be ...
The Season Of Dewinter?
Dec 09, 2005; ... Ain, Stewart The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 With his vow to protect Antwerp Jews from Muslim immigrants, Filip Dewinter is catching on among some in the community despite his far-right party. He could be the city's next mayor and a force on the continent. Polls are ...
Lynn Singer, 80; Soviet Jewry Activist
Dec 09, 2005; ... Mark, Jonathan The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Lynn Singer, the unlikely suburban activist who steered both the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry through the heyday of the Soviet Jewry movement, died Nov. 30 of cancer. Mrs. Singer ...
Forever Friends
Dec 09, 2005; ... Kustanowitz, Esther D. The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 Having friends is a good thing. Friends are supportive, they can act as sounding board or devil's advocate, help you work through your emotional and professional challenges and -- when they're of the opposite sex -- provide ...
To Everything There Is A Season
Dec 09, 2005; ... Brown, Elicia The Jewish Week 12-09-2005 As a child I was smitten -- bitten by a Christmas angel, and jealous, oh so jealous, of the twinkling rainbow of lights that emanated from my neighbor's porch. Of course we had Chanukah. Every evening, my sister and I deliberated ...