Max Fisher, ‘dean’ of Jewish life,dies at 96 as community mourns By Rachel Pomerance NEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) — A defining moment in the life of Max Fisher, the son of immigrants who became a Jewish icon, came in a meeting with former President Eisenhower in 1965. As head of the United Jewish Appeal…
Kol Hakavod to my colleague Rabbi David Wolpe of Temple Sinai in LA for his 2-day solidarity mission to Israel in which he brought with him a significant amount of donated funds for Friends of the IDF. From the Jerusalem Post (by Adina Greene) Emotions ran high at Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday night…
1. Grab a calculator, if you have one handy; it might be tough to do this on paper. 2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code) 3. Multiply by 80 4. Add 1 5. Multiply by 250 6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number 7….
May 2004 bring health, happiness, and peace to everyone. Afgani: Saale Nao Mubbarak – Afrikaans: Gelukkige nuwe jaar – Albanian: Gezuar Vitin e Ri – Arabic: Antum salimoun – Bengali: Shuvo Nabo Barsho – Bulgarian: Chestita Nova Godina – Chinese: Chu Shen Tan – Corsican : Pace e Salute – Croatian: Sretna Nova godina! –…
Reform Jewish wedding, Conservative Jewish wedding or Orthodox Jewish wedding… they all have one thing in common — the personalized yarmulke. It’s impossible to go to a Jewish wedding and not receive a keepsake kippah with the bride and groom’s names imprinted on the inside along with the wedding date.Well, these personalized kippot have been…
I participated in the New York City Habitat For Humanity‘s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blitz Build in Harlem today. The theme was Building on the Dream – Housing for All I spent the better part of the day installing metal studs as we renovated an apartment building in Harlem on 134th Street. The experience…