Meir Panim: Lighting Up Life for Israel’s Neediest Residents Across Israel, Meir Panim responds to the growing needs of the country’s 1.75 million impoverished residents through various food and social service programs.
Salute to Israel Parade, Manhattan
Posted on: May 16th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: In the wake of the Winograd Report on last summer's Lebanon war, should Prime Minister Olmert resign?
Posted on: May 16th, 2007
Sections → MagazineWhen I was a little girl, I was fortunate to be one of the first of my peers to travel to Israel. It was 1965 and the fledgling state was only 17 years old.
Jewish Polish Relations In France
Posted on: May 16th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesWhile Polish-Jewish relations have grown more and more friendly in Poland, Israel and the U.S., Poland has also been reaching out to Jews around the world.
Posted on: May 9th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesAs well spouses, we know the effect of chronic illness on ourselves. We know how it robs us of our dreams, our future, even our identity.
Groundbreaking For Museum Of Jewish History Of Polish Jews
Posted on: May 9th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesIt has been more than 10 years since its conception, but finally the long-awaited groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum of Jewish History of Polish Jews has been set for June 26, 2007.
Parade route, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Posted on: May 9th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: Impressed or disappointed with the turnout at this year's Salute to Israel Parade?
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesWe all have a filter, should we choose to use it. It is the sensitive part of us that allows us to hear what we are about to say before it leaves our mouth.
The Jews Of Nevis And Alexander Hamilton
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryThe sister islands of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis lie about 225 miles southeast of Puerto Rico in the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Nevis, the smaller of the two islands, is elliptically shaped and has a land area of approximately five by seven miles. When Christopher Columbus spotted this eight-mile-long island on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, he mistook its cloud-shrouded mountains for icy peaks and named it Nuestra Se?ora de las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snows).
Time To Wake Up And Smell… The Blood
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → MagazineThere are many die-hard optimists who are actually Leftists. (I thought I would be generous in explaining why they are reality-challenged.)
Heaven’s Gate: Wooden Synagogues of Poland
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesThe synagogue buildings that survived are among the last remaining vestiges of Jewish life in Poland today.
Judaic Studies class, Brooklyn College
Posted on: May 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: Some critics feel the Holocaust has come to define Jewish identity in America and that it takes away from other aspects of Jewish life and culture. Agree?
Posted on: April 25th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesI have often written about how important respite is for the caregiver.
Posted on: April 25th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesOne of the most frequently asked questions about Jewish life in Poland is, "Are there still Jews there?"
Posted on: April 18th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesWe all have preconceived notions that we accept as real and never challenge.
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn
Posted on: April 18th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: Popular radio personality Don Imus was fired last week over racial cracks he made about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Your reaction?
Posted on: April 18th, 2007
Sections → MagazineJust days ago millions of people's lives across the country were impacted by severe unrelenting weather in the form of snowstorms, torrential rains, hurricane force winds and tornadoes.
The Well Spouse’s Need To Be Cared For
Posted on: April 12th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesMost well spouses live their years as care givers without any one giving a care about them.
Difficult Questions In Polish-Jewish Dialogue
Posted on: April 12th, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesWhenever I meet people, and they find out I write about Jewish life in Poland, invariably they have questions.
Practical Ideas For Caregiving
Posted on: April 2nd, 2007
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesLast week I discussed a situation where one child has taken in an ageing and ill parent to live with them and finds that his/her siblings are not contributing to the parent's care.
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