Charity on the Kinneret: Tiberias Soup Kitchen Serves Hot Food Seasoned with Kindness Meir Panim’s Tiberias Free Restaurant not only provides warm meals, but the opportunity to socialize as well.
Dealing With Abuse And Theft In Jewish Nonprofits
Posted on: October 10th, 2013
InDepth → Op-EdsThe pressure to live a lifestyle of the rich and famous can be overwhelming. This just serves, of course, to increase the risk of fraud and deceit.
Posted on: October 10th, 2013
Judaism → Rebbetzin's ViewpointIt really hit home when you pointed out that on Yom Kippur G-d forgives us with a smile and loving embrace.
All Of His Wonders: Our Purim Miracle
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
Judaism → Columns → Lessons In EmunahOn the exalted Purim day, my husband collects money for needy families, as is the custom of many good-hearted Jews. Last Purim before sundown, he entered the home of his last stop, a home filled with many people. Upon receiving some generous donations, he reached for his pocket to keep these contributions safely together with the rest of the money he had gathered. To his great chagrin and shock, he put his hand into an empty pocket.
The Jewish Father Of The World Series
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
Sections → Sports → Baseball InsiderThe World Series was born 110 years ago. So were the New York Yankees, as New York inherited the remnants of the old Baltimore Orioles, a charter member of the new American League that was formed in 1901. A year later the team was headed to last place and bankruptcy. Manager John McGraw jumped to the National League New York Giants to assume the same position and brought some Orioles players with him.
New Year, More Progress In Jewish Tennis
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
Sections → SportsPrior to the summer, Jewish tennis had been characterized by the men who performed well on the big stages, including Dudi Sela, Canadian Jesse Levine, Amir Weintraub and doubles stars Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.
A Primary Lesson In How Far We’ve Fallen
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
InDepth → ColumnsWith national and international crises making headlines, the New York City mayoral race has all but receded to the back pages. But with the first of three scheduled debates between the two remaining major party candidates less than a week away, voters will finally be able to concentrate on substantive issues and policy rather than the circus we were treated to over the summer.
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Community Currents – October 11, 2013
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialThe Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death this week of the towering Torah personality, Talmudic scholar and halachic decisor Rav Ovadia Yosef.
Saluting The Presidents Conference
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialWe note that the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will be holding a dinner next week marking 50 years of peerless service to the Jewish community. The dinner will honor recent chairmen of the Presidents Conference as well as its indefatigable vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, who has served in that capacity for more than 25 years and has become the public face of the organization.
Those Williamsburg ‘Modesty’ Signs
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
InDepth → EditorialLast year, the New York City Commission on Human Rights decided to pursue a discrimination claim against a half dozen chassidic store owners in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section over their posting of signs that stated, “No Shorts, no barefoot, no sleeveless, no low-cut neckline allowed in this store.”
Phyllis Chesler Unveils Candid Memoir At 92nd Street Y
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
Sections → Features“This is the story of a young and naive Jewish American woman who meant to rebel against tradition but who found herself trapped in the past, stuck in the Middle Ages, without a passport back,” declared Dr. Phyllis Chesler.
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
InDepth → Front PageThe exchange was brief and simple in its content, yet profound in its implications. One morning this past summer, I davened at a shul in Passaic, New Jersey. Passaic was our new home as of mid-July, following nearly a decade of school leadership in other communities. After tefillah, I opened a conversation with someone who had also just concluded his tenure as a principal out of state. He informed me he had left the field of education entirely and had moved to the tri-state area to go into business with a relative. In the course of our talk, he mentioned that another colleague, also young by comparative standards, was not returning to the school he had helped found out west.
Day Of Reckoning Could Come Quickly For Shas
Posted on: October 9th, 2013
News & Views → Israel → GovernmentJERUSALEM – The death of Israel’s former Sephardic chief rabbi, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, could trigger political infighting within the once powerful Shas Party that could threaten the party’s future.
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Posted on: October 5th, 2013
Kidz → Tales of the GaonimIt is very easy to catch a thief when one has clues and evidence. It is a far different matter, however, when one must attempt to find the guilty party through his own wits alone. It is then that we must have a truly wise man- one as wise as, say Shlomo HaMelech.
Posted on: October 5th, 2013
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldOn a fresh August morning, I toured the newly re-built Netzer Hazani. This former Gush Katif community has successfully re-established itself near Yesodot, 8 years after Ariel Sharon's 2005 Disengagement Plan. It was truly amazing to once again see road signs bearing the names of Gush Katif communities! Seeing the green road sign with the white emblazoned letters of Netzer Hazani on it made something inside me first shudder and then smile.
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