by Sam Jaffe | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
On the evening of Sept. 10, I went to bed expecting to take a 5:30 a.m. Amtrak train to New York for a 9 a.m. event at the Millenium Hotel in the World Trade Center — the hotel that had been heavily damaged, then rebuilt, after terrorists tried to blow up the...
by Judy Gruen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
When the 1994 Northridge earthquake struck, Delores Gray had an unusual response. Gray, an African American ordained minister and sales representative for Continental Airlines, took one look at the shambles the temblor had made of her Van Nuys condominium – the...
by Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Judith Grunfeld. Over sixty years ago, a sea of anti-Semitism engulfed the world. Within this stormy sea, there was a little-known “ark” – a place of refuge and shalom for some of the suffering children...
by Roberta Elliott | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
By Roberta Elliott: National Public Affairs Director – Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (NEW YORK — March 27, 2002) — When Fred Oplatka, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, recently received a reparations check from the...
by Eric Simon | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
I felt like a sociologist in a documentary film. Surrounded by at least a hundred dark-suited and for the most part black-hatted and bearded men, ritual fringes hanging at their sides, I — a comfortably Reform Jew from the suburbs — definitely stood out in...
