Title: The Strike That Changed New York

Posted on: December 3rd, 2003

There are moments in time that define an era, and for New York's ethnic communities of African-Americans and Jews that moment came on May 9th, 1968, when Fred Nauman, a junior high school teacher in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn and 18 other educators received letters telling them that the predominantly African-American local school district had fired them.

Review: Never Again? The Threat Of The New Anti-Semitism

Posted on: October 31st, 2003

An old Native American expression admonishes us to "Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his moccasins."

Review: Living A Year Of Kaddish, A Memoir

Posted on: October 24th, 2003

Do we say the Kaddish to honor our lost ones, to satisfy our own innate yearnings, or to teach the next generation?

Review: The Jews Of Kaifeng, China ? History, Culture, and Religion

Posted on: October 10th, 2003

My cousin Phil, of Los Angeles, once told me - what I consider an apocryphal story - that during the Korean War, when he was stationed in Hong Kong, he was seeking a synagogue for Friday evening services and was told to go to a small shul atop a hill.

Title: Guide For The Romantically Perplexed

Posted on: September 19th, 2003

You probably know or perhaps are a single Jewish adult who needs this book, and here it is. Popular author Lisa Aiken examines the range of issues plaguing the aging Jewish singles community and she presents the solutions to them.

Title: The Case For Israel

Posted on: September 5th, 2003

Presenting this subject from a positive point of view in The Jewish Press is akin to 'preaching to the choir,' but Prof. Dershowitz brings his many years of legal training and expertise - and a lifetime of involvement with the Zionist cause - to bear on the subject.

Title: Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story

Posted on: August 22nd, 2003

Europe had its royalty, its nobility... and its Rothschilds.

Title: The Miracle of The Seventh Day

Posted on: August 1st, 2003

The sub-title is of The Miracle of the Seventh Day is A Guide to the Spiritual Meaning, Significance and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath, written by Rabbi Steinsaltz, a leader among the activists of the Kiruv movement, this very attractively published volume is designed to be a working tool toward assisting the newly initiated toward understanding the hidden meanings of prayer.

Title: Real Jews; Secular Versus Ultra-Orthodox And The Struggle For Jewish Identity In Israel

Posted on: July 26th, 2003

There may be some who would wish this book, and this subject matter, to not be discussed at all; to shove it back into some secret corner whence it came. "Don't air dirty linen in public!"

Title: The Road to Jerusalem, Glubb Pasha, Palestine and The Jews

Posted on: July 11th, 2003

Prof. Benny Morris, who currently instructs at Ben-Gurian University in Israel, has written an interesting history of General Sir John Glubb, the last British pro-Consul in the Mid-East, who served as commander of Trans Jordan's 'Arab Legion' before, during and immediately following the 1948 Israel War of Independence through the 1956 Suez crisis.

Title: The Art Of Amazement

Posted on: June 27th, 2003

Hear Deeply Strugglers with the Infinite Oh, Infinite, What Was, What Is and Whatever Will Be Our Power in the natural world Infinite, What Was, What Is and Whatever Will B One, Absolute Oneness, Perfect Unity.

Title: Hatred, The Psychological Descent Into Violence

Posted on: June 27th, 2003

Willard Gaylin, M.D., a prominent psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, as well as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, has written one of the most important recent books dealing with the etiology of all kinds of hatred, including those that are purely personal, and that may have actual meaning, of the person who hates, as well as those derived from delusional thought, including (but certainly not limited to), anti-Semitism.

Title: The Adventures Of Jeremy & Heddy Levi

Posted on: June 13th, 2003

Yaffa Ganz' realistic and enjoyable characters are updated and fun for their readers. The charm of the Levi family is that they speak without the stilted goody-goody dialogue sometimes found in juvenile literature. A typical sample of this happens in a chapter entitled "The J&S Employment Agency."

Title: Personal Policy Making; Canada’s Role In The Adoption Of The Palestine Partition Resolution

Posted on: June 26th, 2002

Is there anyone among us who doesn't know the pivotal role in the establishment of The State of Israel played by Chaim Weizmann; or Ben Gurian; or U.S. President Harry Truman; or countless other well-known personalities?