The Learning Express
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer Houston — In a schoolroom of Congregation Emanu-El, a Reform rabbi is leading a seminar on patrilineal descent. Down the hall, a discussion on Jewish mysticism is taking...
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Steve Lipman Staff Writer Houston — In a schoolroom of Congregation Emanu-El, a Reform rabbi is leading a seminar on patrilineal descent. Down the hall, a discussion on Jewish mysticism is taking...
View ArticleEx-Fencers On Guard For Old Coach
Staff Writer The hundreds of Yeshiva University and Stern College students who took up epee, foil and saber during Arthur Tauber's quarter-century as fencing coach talk about how he would make time...
View ArticleUnder One Roof, Negotiating Two Faiths
by Julie Wiener Special to the Jewish Week When my friend Rebecca tells me she and her husband want to expose their two small children to both Judaism and Christianity, I smile politely. But...
View ArticleIsrael Ambassadors In Training
by Julie Wiener Staff Writer Rabbi Joseph Brodie had been planning a family vacation in Ireland for this summer. But while visiting Israel this month with the Jewish Theological Seminary, he decided...
View ArticleIsraeli Team’s Efforts Stand Out In Haiti
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor As IDF rescuers and doctors save lives, rare praise for a disproportionate response.Israel’s rapid response to the disaster in Haiti and the success of its...
View ArticlePound For Pound, A Tough Problem
Randi Sherman Staff Writer Fri, 05/15/2009Three and a half years ago, Elisheva Diamond, a clinical psychology graduate student at Long Island University and clinical research coordinator at Mount...
View ArticleJewish Activism At Its Best
The Editors Next Thursday will mark the 20th anniversary of the highlight of American Jewish activism, the massive rally in Washington, D.C. on behalf of Soviet Jewry. Looking back, there is a...
View ArticleCalm Before The Storm?
by Michele Chabin Israel Correspondent Jerusalem — As Israelis lined up at hardware stores this week to buy plastic sheeting and rolls of adhesive tape to seal rooms against possible chemical or...
View ArticleGetting Teens To Volunteer
Gabrielle Birkner Staff Writer For the past three years, Peter Dreyer, a 12th grader at Manhattan’s Trinity School, has visited regularly with homebound seniors. On Sunday, the 18-year-old veteran...
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