Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS Bone Marrow Search Continues Jay Feinberg is living on borrowed lime. Stricken with a fatal form of leukemia, the 24-year-old New Jersey resident is in dire need of a hone marrow...
...Synagogues are asked to sound a shofar as church bells ring...
...Families eat food fried in oil to remember the miracle of the oil lamp in the Temple, light candles, give gifts and play with dreidels...
...Box 15242, Fremont, CA 94539 Scud-Busting Windows As Syria and Iraq build up their Scud arsenals, Israeli companies have been working on preventive measures against the possible effects of another attack...
...Instead of leafing through 5,000 pages of Judaism's most intricate discussion of Jewish law looking for a source, simply input a few key words and it will come up on screen in Hebrew or Aramaic...
...Subscriptions HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE Jewish holidays start at sundown the previous evening...
...Dear Devoted Friend of Israel," the letter begins, "We may never attain our goal of capturing complete control of Congress for the benefit of the Jewish state, but it will not be for any lack of trying on our part or yours...
...Modeled on the success of free loan associations in the U.S., the program helps many Ethiopian and Russian immigrants with modest emergency loans for necessities such as medical and dental bills, basic furniture and appliances, clothing, food, tuition, day care, rent and small business loans...
...The articles will appear simultaneously next year in moment and in the RNS packet distributed by the New York Times News Service...
...Play an exciting round of DrriM of Fortune, and watch as Joan Rivers hosts This is Your Life™ with special guest, the little pot of oil from the Ghanukah story...
...Donations are tax-deductible...
...Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday...
...Chanukah, the festival of lights...
...In addition to the Babylonian Talmud, the CD contains Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Rashi on the Torah, and the great Kabbalistic work, the Zohar...
...To make a tax-deductible contribution, organize a drive or learn more aboutjay and his plight, contact The Gift of Life Foundation, 1-800-9-MAR-ROW, or write to Friends of Jay Feinberg, PO Box 326, West Orange, NJ 07052...
...it requires a biood test...
...20 December 13-15 December 20-23 January 24-26 Jewish Book Fair Detroit, 313-661-1000 Jewish Book Month Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference Boston Midyear Conference for Israel Campus Activists New York, NY, 1-800-27-ISRAEL Spitzer Forum on Public Policy: Jewish Urban Agenda Los Angeles, National Hillel, 202-857-6559...
...AIPCA Creative Antisemitism Award Goes to whoever spoofed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) by sending out a mailing on look-alike stationery but changing the name to AIPCA, the American Israel Political Control Association...
...moment readers are encouraged to send in nominations for the worst or most creative anti-Semitism awards.] Read It & Weep Jewish Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse, a California-based group, has a national newsletter available six times a year for those looking for support and advice...
...Israel Business Today reports on an Israeli company that has developed windows to withstand blasts of considerable force and also provide protection against gas and other chemical warfare materials...
...Loans in circulation total nearly $2 million, and paybacks have been prompt and reliable...
...Another couple asked for decorated squares to form the border of the chuppah, while the inside was silk dyed in a burst of colors...
...Most computers can be equipped with a CD-ROM drive and the disc is available both for Macintosh and IBM compatible computers...
...This fast—from sunrise to sunset—is in remembrance of Nebuchadnezzar's siege against Jerusalem prior to the city's destruction by the Babylonians...
...However, since alt costs are absorbed by The Gift of Life, a non-profit marrow donor recruitmeni foundation sponsored hy the Friends of jay Feinberg, funds are running low and are desperately needed to pay for continued testing...
...The English video peppered with Hebrew words is "sponsored" by the number eight (shmoneh), for the eight days of Chanukah, and the Hebrew letter diet...
...Shalom Sesame, 1-800-4289920...
...Jay's best chance of finding a match outside his family is from someone of an Eastern European Jewish background...
...Chuppah artist Shirley Waxman says that more and more couples want their chuppotto remind them of the people in their lives and are finding ways through art to make it happen...
...For more information call: 011-972-2-669405 or write IFLA, 1 Metudela Street, P0 Box 4171, Jerusalem 91041, Israel...
...They were sewn together into a cfiuppaft, the Jewish wedding canopy...
...Moment Wins Grant The Religious News Service (RNS) has awarded S5.000 from a Lily Endowment grant to moment associate editor Yossi Abramowitz and Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter ,Larry "Vudelson to research and write full-length articles on the Conservative and the Lubavitch religious movements...
...Unfortunately, the association has a long waiting list of approved applicants they cannot help due to lack of funds...
...Kermit, Bert, "Ernie and his rubber ducky all make singing appearances, along with Moshe Oofnick, Israel's grouch...
...The beginning of Tevet...
...Other anti-Israel jabs include: calling foreign aid to Israel "the Israeli Entitlement & Welfare Program," describing Israel as "a foreign country which sometimes spies and cheats America" and assuring each recipient that a tree has been planted in their honor in the Judean hills overlooking Jerusalem...
...In an emergency the window is closed and retains its airproof seal...
...Seged, Ethiopian Jewish holiday...
...An AIPAC spokesperson called the mailing "pure hate mail" and undeserving of further response...
...We hope that you will wear your beanie proudly, preferably on the floor of Congress, thereby showing your solidarity with AIPCA and our cause of bilking the American taxpayer for the benefit of Israel...
...Friends and family were invited to decorate the cloths and send them back...
...Many Jewish women participate in Rosh Chodesh feminist groups...
...Shalom Sesame Kids will love the Children's Television Workshop's "Chanukah" video featuring kid TV star Jeremy Miller {"Growing Pains...
...Join Kipi the porcupine on a Ghanukah torch run from Modin...
...others volunteer for various non-sectarian charities so that Christian volunteers can spend Christmas with family and friends...
...Testing for potential donors is simple...
...the place where the i Maccabees began their rebellion, to Jerusalem...
...See "A Chanukah Message for the '90s," page 24...
...Kabbalah Software (908-572-0891) also offers the Talmud and Torah on COR0M...
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...A Different Way to Help Eliezer Jaffe, a professor of social work at Hebrew University, has established the Israel Free Loan Association to help new immigrants succeed in their new homeland...
...A miracle...
...Seen at Jewish Weddings: When Jacob Schreiber and Edna Levy sent out invitations to ttieir wedding, they enclosed a white, square cloth...
...Fast of the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tevet...
...Davka Corporation, in cooperation with the Institute for Computers in Jewish Life, has recently released a CD-ROM disc (it looks like a regular CD) called Judaic Classics Library (312-465-4070...
...COMPUTER CORNER Talmud on Disc It took over 1,700 years to develop, but ifs finally available: The Babylonian Talmud for your home computer...
...Jay and his family have been looking for a potential donor for over a year and have tested more than 12,000 people in the United States and Canada, but a donor with compatible tissue types has yet to be found...
...it can be opened and closed at will...
...An added bonus: A white yarmulke, which they call a beanie, imprinted with an American flag and "America First" printed in red and blue...
...Stricken with a fatal form of leukemia, the 24-year-old New Jersey resident is in dire need of a hone marrow transplant...
...For the first time some American Jews are commemorating the day when Ethiopians dress in white, ascend the highest mountain and pray for their return to Zion...
...JASCA Newsletter, P.O...
...The holiday ends with a feast and is currently celebrated in Israel...
...The Rom 50 Super Window functions like a casement window...
...Hardly...
...NATIONAL CALENDAR November 9-17 Nov...
Vol. 17 • December 1992 • No. 6
