Have an idea? Sure you do. Maybe a blog? A Jewish educational project, maybe an outreach prgram in breast cancer awareness at the Hillel level? OKay, wait those were done already. But maybe you have...
Author - larry
Nazis’ Victims More Susceptible to Cancer?
Add another crime against humanity to the rampage of Nazism. The November 2009 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute* reports that Jewish Holocaust survivors are at a higher risk for...
Foto Op: Clinton in Israel
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participated in a press briefing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem October 31, 2009, and discussed the .. fish she caught in...
ShivaWatch: Lawrence Halprin Passes Away at 93
Lawrence Halprin, the renowned landscape architect died this week at the age of 93. Born in New York City, he worked on a pre-State kibbutz for three years as a teenager, and then returned to the USA...
J Street Conference. New Avenue for Ideas or Dead End, Part 2
The J Street conference reminded me of two recent Torah readings. The first was Bereshit, in which the world is created (and then there was a helluva lot of work required afterwards). And the next is...
J Street: A New Avenue for Ideas or a Dead End? Day 1
Washington DC has a grid of numbers and lettered streets overlayed with diagonal avenues named for U.S. states. There are smaller streets in alphabetic order which ascend in sequence by their numbers...