Washington Jewish Week back issues from April 2008:
Economic bite hits agencies
Apr 03, 2008; ... Jewish groups see soaring bills The Jewish Council for the Aging's bill for diesel fuel last month was more than $2,100 higher than in March 2007. That 47 percent rise would mean an additional $25,000 in expenses for the organization to run its buses over a full year - and that's ...
U.S. presses Israel on territories
Apr 03, 2008; ... Analysis JERUSALEM - For the first time since the Annapolis peace parley last November, the United States is leaning heavily on Israel to move ahead in peacemaking with the Palestinians. This week, on her second visit to Israel and the Palestinian areas in a month, U.S. Secretary ...
Mishmash
Apr 03, 2008; ... Kiddush and the ballgame With the Nationals opening in their new ballpark last weekend, the rabbi of Congregation Ohr Kodesh in Chevy Chase paid tribute to team owners (and congregants) Ted Lerner and his family. Following "Adon Olam," Rabbi Lyle Fishman led congregants in a chorus of - ...
CLARIFICATION
Apr 03, 2008; ... CLARIFICATION - Last week's article, "seeking civility on campus," should have made it clear that although Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld is the religious leader of ...
Building literally, figuratively
Apr 03, 2008; ... Interfaith mission to New Orleans provides opportunity to help, to learn, to connect Help rebuild New Orleans during the day, have in-depth discussions about religion at night. That was the original plan for an interfaith mission for Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County and its ...
Rapid response
Apr 03, 2008; ... Center kicks off program; focus on Obama's talk The goal was to provide a place where people could get together and discuss a topic on everybody's minds. That's just what some 30 participants did last Thursday evening at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. Barack Obama's ...
Riding the longevity wave
Apr 03, 2008; ... Confab focuses on graying gracefully, gratefully What's a Jewish way to say goodbye to a family house? Is there a ritual to sanctify a person's passage from generic adulthood to old age? Is there a blessing to mark the removal of a wedding ring by a surviving spouse following the first ...
Letting the 'genea' out
Apr 03, 2008; ... Jewish family-tree-tracing to hit info highway Jewish genealogy in the Washington area is about to enter the information age. That quantum upgrade is a key component of the relocation and expansion of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington's library. The JGSGW ...
Woman's death spurs calls for more streetlighting
Apr 03, 2008; ... Traffic safety activists last week used the first anniversary of a Jewish woman's death to call on PEPCO officials to upgrade street lights along Connecticut Avenue in Kensington and Chevy Chase View. Karen Shprintz-Grossman died after being struck by an automobile ...
Jewish groups placed on security alert
Apr 03, 2008; ... Citing an increase in threats and attacks, a U.S. Jewish security network warned its members to be alert to a "new set of circumstances." "The convergence and timing of several events coupled with escalating tensions in the Middle East create a new set of circumstances that have ...
Speak up on issues, Reform rabbis urged
Apr 03, 2008; ... Reform rabbis are being urged to "exercise moral leadership" on today's issues. Rabbi Peter Knobel, the president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, on Monday said the movement's rabbis should discuss the presidential race with their congregations, including the "moral tragedy" of the ...
Woody Allen sues over rabbi billboard
Apr 03, 2008; ... Woody Allen is suing a clothing company for advertisements showing the actor dressed as a rabbi. Allen filed a $10 million lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against American Apparel Inc. for using an image from one of the filmmaker's movies of him dressed as a rabbi. The text of ...
Poll shows strong support for transfer of Israeli Arabs
Apr 03, 2008; ... A total of 76 percent of Israeli Jews give some degree of support to transferring Israeli Arabs to a future Palestinian state, a poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel revealed Monday. Respondents were asked whether as part of an agreement to establish a Palestinian state there would ...
Hamas TV shows puppet stabbing Bush to death
Apr 03, 2008; ... A children's puppet show aired on Hamas TV Monday featured a child stabbing President George W. Bush to death. The script of the controversial sketch was translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an independent nonprofit organization that analyzes and ...
Controversial Israeli projects get go-ahead
Apr 03, 2008; ... Israel has given the green light to two major housing projects on land where Palestinians seek statehood. Jerusalem on Monday approved the construction of 600 new homes in Pisgat Ze'ev, a neighborhood in the eastern part of the capital that Palestinians deem a settlement. Separately, the ...
Hiker shoots terrorist in stabbing attempt
Apr 03, 2008; ... A Palestinian man was shot dead after attempting to stab two Israeli hitchhikers near Shiloh, Judea and Samaria, police said on Monday. Both civilians escaped unharmed. Police spokesperson Dani Poleg confirmed that the attacker was killed by an Israeli civilian, who fired on him using ...
Netanyahu spared query on lavish London visit
Apr 03, 2008; ... Israel's attorney general will not investigate an expensive London speaking tour by Benjamin Netanyahu. Justice Ministry sources said Monday that Menachem Mazuz turned down requests by an anticorruption watchdog group to open a criminal probe against the former prime minister, who is alleged to ...
Dovish Israel PAC to be unveiled
Apr 03, 2008; ... A political action committee that will back candidates who pledge support for dovish pro-Israel policies will be in place later this month. Sources close to the J Street Project confirmed a Jewish Week report published last week about the proposed political action committee. "For too ...
McPeak says he's a fan of Israel
Apr 03, 2008; ... A Barack Obama adviser who made controversial remarks about American Jewish voters says he is a "long-term admirer of Israel." Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak, a presidential campaign co-chair for the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), spoke to Shalom TV in a bid to extinguish fires ...
House backs Jewish refugee rights
Apr 03, 2008; ... The House is urging the president to recognize the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab lands in any final peace deal. The nonbinding resolution, backed by a bipartisan slate of lawmakers, passed in a voice vote Tuesday. It urges any U.S. government to ensure that when the issue of Middle ...
Poll: U.S. voters big backers of Israel
Apr 03, 2008; ... Americans likely to vote in November strongly believe the United States should take Israel's side in its conflict with the Palestinians, according to a new poll. Sixty percent of those who say they will cast their ballots in the presidential election support Israel, compared to 8 percent who ...
On roadblocks and their removal
Apr 03, 2008; ... How often does each of us continue to do something when the rationale for that action no longer exists? Inertia sometimes is difficult to overcome. Governments, characterized by their lack of flexibility, are particularly guilty of ignoring new realities. This may, in part, ...
Extremists endanger Disapora, Israel ties
Apr 03, 2008; ... WashingtonWatch Jewish activists in both political parties have launched campaigns accusing the opposition of fostering religious bigotry and hostility toward Israel, and they're just getting warmed up for the fall campaign. Jewish Republicans would have us believe the Rev ....
Are Tibetans the new Jews?
Apr 03, 2008; ... In 1990, the Dalai Lama hosted a delegation of American Jews in Dharamsala, his home in exile in northern India. His agenda was dear. Tibetans had lost sovereignty over their homeland and were scattering around the globe. How, he asked, had Jews preserved their cultural and religious identities ...
In defining terrorism, language matters
Apr 03, 2008; ... Years after Sept. 11, despite more than 10,000 terrorist attacks by radical Islamist groups alone, there is still an amazing amount of confusion and falsehood over what should be a very simple point What is terrorism all about? The answer is politics, specifically, revolutionary ...
It's time to move forward
Apr 03, 2008; ... On March 6, my family was hosted by the Aramin family at their home in Anata, a Palestinian village just outside Jerusalem in the West Bank. A 20-minute ride from my Jerusalem suburb of Motza, 20 light years away from Jerusalem. We ate a mountain of maqloube with almonds and yogurt. And ...
Pesach and baseball, idolatry then & now
Apr 03, 2008; ... Capital Schmoozing The dawn of another baseball season, usually an occasion of great joy and anticipation has been marred somewhat by the controversy over players' use of performance-enhancing substances. As fans, we feel cheated. Those mammoth home runs over the left field fence ...
In Focus: David Farber
Apr 03, 2008; ... Name: David Farber Hebrew name: David Joseph ben Yehudah Lieb Lives in: Bethesda Birthday: Aug. 13, 1961 Synagogue: Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County Favorite Jewish holiday: Purim Favorite Jewish food: Matzah ball soup Favorite ...
Personalized philanthropy
Apr 03, 2008; ... Kids of Ukraine benefit from hands-on local M.D. The Toporovsky family of Kiev, Ukraine, lives in an earthen structure without even a proper wooden floor. Since the home is heated with the help of an oven, clothing worn by family members normally reeks of smoke, according to a newsletter ...
With most Jewry safe, can Israel lure new immigrants?
Apr 03, 2008; ... TEL AVIV Founded with the express purpose of "ingathering of the exiles"-but with no more large groups of Jews to save - Israel is facing the end of the era of mass aliyah. Recent reports that the Jewish Agency for Israel was considering shutting down its flagship aliyah department have ...
Buoyed in Beijing
Apr 03, 2008; ... Chabad, Reform united to promote Jewish life BEIJING - The two Purim celebrations seemed worlds apart. At the Chabad-run service, a Lubavitcher rabbi chanted the Megillah to an audience segregated by gender, and Beijing's kosher restaurant catered the meal after the ...
Separated by common religion
Apr 03, 2008; ... British Israelis stick to their own LONDON - For the organizers of the British Zionist Federation's celebration of Israel's Independence Day, the idea of bringing American Jewish comedian Jackie Mason to perform alongside the Israeli army's entertainment troupe and Israeli singer Sarit ...
Jewish nonprofits get that sinking feeling
Apr 03, 2008; ... Americans continue to default on their mortgages in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. Banks continue to become more reticent about lending money. The stock market continues a herky-jerky tumble downhill. The finance industry is still roiling from last month's stunning collapse ...
Move it!
Apr 03, 2008; ... It's just what I needed," commented an enthusiastic Nancy Violand, referring to Walsh University's popular senior flexibility classes. "It's only been six months since I had [bilateral knee replacement] surgery and this is going to help a lot." Violand enrolled in the free six-week ...
Bone appetit: Calcium-rich foods aren't all dairy
Apr 03, 2008; ... Everyone knows that calcium does a body good, including older bodies. In addition to building stronger bones and teeth, it helps maintain bone mass. It also helps muscles and nerves to work properly, helps the blood to clot and may help to reduce weight gain. Yet, despite calcium's health ...
Hum along to century mark
Apr 03, 2008; ... Centenarians - those lucky individuals that live to be 100 - are the fastest-growing portion of the U.S. population. According to the Census Bureau, one in nine baby boomers will live to see their late 90s, and one in 26 will survive to be 100. Want to count yourself among ...
Reduce the risk of age-related falls
Apr 03, 2008; ... Folks who are grandparents know that to little children, falling down is not such a big deal. Most of the time, youngsters get right back up and just keep running. However, seniors are not usually so lucky. According to the Centers for Disease Control, falls are among the leading cause of injury ...
Get regular eye exams
Apr 03, 2008; ... A simple glaucoma screening ess than 10 minutes from start to finish - can diagnosis a potentially blinding disease. Glaucoma, in simplest ternis, is a disease of the optic nerve, says Tonya Bourn, an optometrist with Bergh-White Opticians in Springfield, Ill. It can be caused by ...
Variety of housing options aims to suit retirees needs
Apr 03, 2008; ... When retirement age hits, there are many decisions to be made - especially when it comes to where you'll live. Senior citizens tend to want to downsize so they don't have to worry about keeping up with the daily routine of cleaning a large house or caring for a yard. Today, retirees have ...
Markets give, lenders take
Apr 03, 2008; ... OPEN HOUSE Many home buygrs, particularly first-time buyers, are very happy to see home prices dropping. However, they now face tougher requirements in finding mortgage financing for their newly purchased residence. Mortgage interest rates have been slowly rising, but they are ...
Lerners and city celebrate Nationals' new home
Apr 03, 2008; ... With the Nationals and team-owning Lerner family working non-stop to get the new stadium ready in time for Sunday's opening game, the family matriarch, Annette, found herself singing a lyric from Fiddler on the Roof "Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles." They had accomplished their ...
JDS Cubs dance to top
Apr 03, 2008; ... The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School has found plenty of success in varsity and junior varsity sports. But the younger kids there gave JDS another interesting victory a few weeks ago. The Lower School at JDS took seven teams to the UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Grand ...
Singing your way through seder
Apr 03, 2008; ... 'A spoonful of charoses helps bitter herb go down' For the past 18 years, celebrating Pesach at the Sarshik household in McLean has meant taking breaks from the seder service and belting out some Passover parodies to the tune of Broadway and popular songs. For example, "When You ...
Symbolic fare from seder plate to dinner plate
Apr 03, 2008; ... Think of Chanukah latkes sizzling in oil or Purim's hamantashen, a filled cookie that's a metaphor for a story within a story about a queen who married under false pretenses and revealed her secret to save her people. Among Jewish holidays, Passover is the most abundant in symbols, which ...
Chametz - out of sight, out of mind
Apr 03, 2008; ... In Israel, the pithy saying "Dust is not chametz (leaven) and children are not the korban (paschal sacrifice)" reminds homemakers to take pre-Pesach cleaning in stride and have patience with their children when they unintentionally leave a trail of chametz. According to biblical law, the ...
Soul music
Apr 03, 2008; ... Israeli songstress blends rock with spirituality Etti Ankri is a psalmist for the 21st century. The award-winning Israeli lyricist and composer writes songs that shimmer with ancient mystical and biblical imagery, drawing from the wellspring of Torah and Kabbalah. Yet those very same ...
Miller: Peace still possible
Apr 03, 2008; ... Former State employee lauds Baker, Rabin Had one leader been re-elected and another not assassinated, Arab-Israeli history might have turned out very differently. So says Aaron David Miller, who as a State Department employee for some 20 years, starting in the 1980s, advised ...
A musical trip to the past
Apr 03, 2008; ... Jagoda concert to relive Sephardic life in Bosnia, benefit Sarajevo's Jews Her concert this Sunday will benefit the old and sick Jewish survivors of her native Sarajevo, but Flory Jagoda insists it will be a joyous event. "The concert will be a musical trip back" to Jewish ...
Apple ad helps Israeli singer climb the charts
Apr 03, 2008; ... NEW YORK - Musicians not so long ago would be regarded as colossal sellouts for licensing their work for use in a TV commercial. But in following a trail blazed by such titans as the Rolling Stones and U2, the French-Israeli singer-songwriter Yael Nairn has little reason to be ashamed ...
Magazine puts Maryland Jewish, Holocaust museums in top 10 list
Apr 03, 2008; ... Two area museums - the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the District - have been included in Jewish Living Magazine's list of the 10 best Jewish museums in North America. JMM made the top 10 - there were 80 museums considered - ...
Jules Dassin, film director, 97
Apr 03, 2008; ... Jules Dassin, a film director who left Hollywood during the communist blacklisting era, died March 31 in Athens. He was 97. Dassin was married to the Greek actress Melina Mercouri, who starred in many of his films in the early 1960s. A native of Middletown, Conn., he was one of eight ...
Abby Mann, 80, wrote script for 'Judgment at Nuremberg'
Apr 03, 2008; ... Abby Mann, the Jewish writer of socially conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, died March 25. He was 80. Mann was a struggling television writer in the 1950s when he scripted a TV play about the ...
Sam Bennett, Yiddish journalist, 88
Apr 03, 2008; ... A journalist whose name was synonymous with the Yiddish press in Australia for almost 60 years died March 23. Sam (Shmuel) Bennett was 88. Bennett's association with Die Oistralisheh Yiddisheh Nayess began in 1939, just weeks after he arrived in Melbourne on the Otranto, the last ship to ...
Herbert Friedman, rabbi led UJA, 89
Apr 03, 2008; ... Rabbi Herbert Friedman, a former executive chair of United Jewish Appeal and a co-founder of the Wexner Foundation, died March 31 at his home in New York. He was 89. He had a 35-year association with United Jewish Appeal, the precursor to United Jewish Communities, serving as its CEO and ...
Quick, easy, healthy
Apr 03, 2008; ... Rushing home from work, picking up the kids and expected to put a meal on the table - sound familiar? Take heart. Meals can be quick, easy and healthy. And there's no need to be repetitious, boring or spend a lot of time searching for unusual ingredients. But - remember - the ...
'First-time' seder set at Sixth & I
Apr 03, 2008; ... Capital Kehillah and Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in the District will co-host a communitywide first-night Passover seder at the Sixth & I synagogue Saturday, April 19. The seder, says Rabbi Tamara Miller, who will lead it, will be a "first for us," and probably the first-ever ...
JSC offers Pesach preparation classes
Apr 03, 2008; ... As Jews throughout the world prepare to retell the story of Passover, the District's Jewish Study Center is offering a variety of one-night classes next week to enliven and. add to your understanding of the holiday and the seder. On Tuesday, classes taking place at St. Margaret's ...
JCCGW to honor Ourisman recipients
Apr 03, 2008; ... In conjunction with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington's 95th birthday celebrations, the Rockville JCC will next Thursday evening host its annual Benjamin Ourisman Award for Civic Achievement dinner. The event will honor all past recipients of the award - including many of Greater ...
Abraham the focus of interfaith talk
Apr 03, 2008; ... Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation of Reston will participate in the third part of an ongoing interfaith "trialogue" in a discussion, titled "The Story of Abraham: Interpretations of Christianity, Judaism and Islam," on Sunday, 7 p.m., at the All Dulles ...
Pray - and peel out
Apr 03, 2008; ... The Tribe, which bills itself as "Washington's Premier Jewish Motorcycling Club," invites all motorcyclists to grab their (kosher) hogs and other bikes and join its second annual Traveler's Prayer and Ride on Sunday, April 13. Bikers will meet at Coleman's PowerSport, located at 435 ...
Anne Frank House celebrates 20 years
Apr 03, 2008; ... The Anne Frank House, which provides permanent housing for formerly homeless people in apartment units in the District, particularly in Ward 3, and which was established as a group home by members of the District's Adas Israel Congregation in 1987, will commemorate its 20th anniversary in a ...
WHC fund-raiser to go shopping
Apr 03, 2008; ... Washington Hebrew Congregation's sisterhood will hold a "Fashion Renovation Fund-raiser" next Wednesday at the new Bloomingdale's department store in Chevy Chase, which will donate 10 percent of all sales proceeds from participating shoppers toward making needed renovations at the Carrie Simon ...
Remembering Trochenbrod
Apr 03, 2008; ... A gathering for people with roots in the Ukrainian towns of Trochenbrod (Sofiyovka) and Lozisht (Ignatovka) is set to take place at D.C.'s Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Sunday, April 13, at 4 p.m. According to Avrom Bendavid-Val, one of the event's organizers, "The fictionalized ...
Labor seder set in D.C.
Apr 03, 2008; ... Jews United for Justice invites the community to join the seventh annual Labor Seder on Tuesday, April 15, 79:30 p.m., at Adas Israel Congregation, located at 2850 Quebec St., N.W. Also co-sponsored by the Jewish Labor Committee, Tikkun Leil Shabbat, DC Jobs with Justice, DC Vote, ...
Restoring dignity to the sick
Apr 03, 2008; ... This week's Torah portion is Tazria, Leviticus 12:1-13.59. This week's Torah reading contains numerous references to individuals with medical conditions who rely for their healing on an act of ritual or association with the kohen (the priest), mikvah (ritual bath) and/or korban ...