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FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY TWO L A S H E S F a m i l y F e ud A Brandeis professor's report on intermarriage has sparked a community feud that is likely to be a hot topic at next month's General Assembly...
...Garcia sells the outfits online (msmodesty.com) and at a Chabad store in Los Angeles...
...This is a perfect guide to the extraordinary range of traditions, practices, and emotions inherent in this period...
...On radio show appearances, callers insist that Barbie is not a slut...
...Take, for example, the now " well-known case of Pokemon, the Nintendo game originally launched Je suisjuif 'by the Japanese company in 1996 for Game Boy...
...As it continues to develop over the next 20 years, officials say, the science will be used for everything from detecting cancerous rumors (when they are only a few cells wide) to creating materials with ten times the strength of steel (and only a fraction of the weight...
...Eimai Evraia...
...It deals with the concept of ben sorer u'moreh—a wayward and rebellious son, unrepentant even after being chastised and warned, who is to be stoned to death...
...MOMENT, the biggest independent Jewish magazine in America, won five Rockower awards for journalistic excellence this year, including first place for overall graphic design...
...There are crafts, games, and stories for children...
...Modesty, a line of clothing for Barbie and other 11-inch dolls...
...Edmund Case, publisher of InterFaithFamily.com, Jewish Family & Life's online magazine, said the study, financed by the American Jewish Committee, comes from Jewish leaders who oppose the community's increasing acceptance of intermarriage...
...It's a great item," says Abe Blumberger, an owner of Jewish Educational Toys in Chicago...
...She says business has picked up significandy since the Los Angeles Times ran a piece on her efforts...
...During prayers, a lulav (palm branch binding willow and myrtle) and etrog (citron) are waved in all directions: north, south, east, west, and toward earth and heaven...
...November 1 - 11 The People's Violin, a play by Charlie Varon...
...Says Krich, "I began Shadows with a set of questions for which I sought answers, and ended the mystery with some answers—and even more questions...
...One organization that has repentance at its core is the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, http://www.claimscon.org...
...We chose to concentrate on what we believe is the most promising direction, namely, nanotechnology in the context of biology and medicine...
...Nintendo confirmed as much...
...The model of outreach and inclusiveness places the highest priority on expanding the size of the Jewish community, at all costs," she wrote, "even if that means inclusion of Christian observances, images, ideas, and cultural attitudes...
...Nanotechnology, the science of manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular levels, is a very broad field...
...Scholars will enjoy the "Inner Dimensions" and "Essays" sections...
...So far, Garcia has no competition...
...And yet Yo soyjudio we have our doubts...
...And everyone can apply the short inspirational thoughts available in the Thoughts and Insights" section...
...That first impression spurred Garcia, 32, who converted to Orthodox Judaism four years ago, to create Ms...
...tickets: (800) 4 9 4 5 4 9 7 . • November 7-February 18 Emanuel Ringelbaum and Oyneg Shabbes: Documenting the Holocaust, a multimedia exhibit...
...Mattel has its clients, I have mine...
...Shadows also involves a contentious subject—capital punishment...
...Key to Hidden Messages: From top to bottom, the italicized phrase "I am a Jew " appears in German, French, Greek, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hausa, and Spanish...
...It is an inaccurate rumor...
...MzVibe takes a stand against interdating and intermarriage...
...AP MOMENT T a k es T h r e e Firsts MOMENT took first-place honors at this year's Simon Rockower Awards banquet in Denver for an article about "conversions of faith" in the heardand and for a profile of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the self-proclaimed love prophet...
...There's also a daily calendar, a how-to guide, and a free poster in six languages...
...SL am a J ew 5 A rumor, once started, can * have powerful ripple effects...
...No one else is doing it...
...Marlena Thompson Calendar • Through October 1 9 Ida Kamlnska (1899- 1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater...
...The report specifically attacked the findings of the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI), a nonprofit organization that develops programs to integrate intermarried families into the Jewish community...
...Y1V0 Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, New York City...
...According to GA Director David Frank, there will be a session featuring prominent representatives of each side of the debate...
...Managing Editor Josh Rolnick earned second for "Totally Normal...
...Modesty is really a niche item...
...I C T I O N An U n l i k e l y A g a t ha Rochelle Krich, an Orthodox Jew, is a mother of six and grandmother of four, who, before becoming a professional writer, was an administrator at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles High School...
...Its site provides information about assistance provided to Holocaust survivors and their families, the latest news on reparations, and a long list of related links..' *• Sometimes it is not easy to hear the truth...
...Shmini A t z e r et October 9 (Tishrei 22) Tefilat Geshem, a prayer for rain, is recited on the eighth day of Sukkot, and continues to be said each day until the first day of Pesach, the time when rain is needed in Israel...
...Through October 3 1 Jerzy Kosinski, 1933-1991: A Literary Life, a multimedia exhibit...
...A festive atmosphere prevails throughout the service, as members of the congregation carry the Torah scrolls around the synagogue, and often into the street, with little children on their shoulders...
...The word is simply a shorter version with no meaning in itself," the company said in a statement...
...The Conference shows us that the process of repentance is one that must be completed in full by the perpetrators of misdeeds...
...312) 322-1747...
...The plot of Shadows focuses on teen violence and family dysfunction, but, as with most of Krich's novels, it has a Jewish spin...
...Theater J, DCJCC, Washington, O.C...
...FIFTY SEVEN SIXTY TWO L A S H E S F a m i l y F e ud A Brandeis professor's report on intermarriage has sparked a community feud that is likely to be a hot topic at next month's General Assembly of the United Jewish Community, the largest annual gathering in the Jewish communal world...
...dresses she sews (which retail for about $19.99) are simple and colorful...
...This spring, Saudi Arabia's Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law, the highest religious authority in the country, issued zfatwa, a religious edict, banning Pokemon from the country...
...None of the characters' names carry any hidden messages, nor do they communicate anti-Islamic statements...
...For the second straight year, MOMENT also took the second-place award for feature writing...
...Pokemon' means 'very small monster,' 'pocket monster,'" he said...
...Encompassing all these ideas is the comprehensive http://Www.jewishnewyear.com...
...Simchat Torah October 1 0 (Tishrei 23) "I'm not sure I would bring a potential convert to my synagogue on Simchat Torah, but I personally would not miss it for all the world—the utter lack of awe, the parody, the humor," writes Blu Greenberg in How to Run a Trad/b'ona/ Jewish Household...
...Behind the News goes behind the scenes, interviews eyewitnesses, and includes testimony rarely found in Reuters or CNN reports...
...And their high necklines and low hemlines comply with Orthodox standards of tzniut, modesty...
...In Saudi Arabia, it was removed from stores, and future orders Tsido vagyok were cancelled...
...What singles us out is the focus of the center," said Technion professor TJri Sivan, who will direct the new center...
...For Garcia, that's just fine...
...I thought, I don't want my kid to play with this stuff," she said...
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...T E C H N O L O G Y A M o l e c u l a r M i s s i on The Technion, one of Israel's top research institutions, is developing a new center that will fuse the science of life with the budding discipline of nanotechnology—keeping Israeli researchers at the forefront of modern science...
...But Garcia is adamant: "She dresses like a prostitute...
...But Krich has penned 10 mystery novels and has been acclaimed by (now retired) Los Angeles Times book reviewer Charles Champlin as "one of the top 10 women who write superior crime fiction...
...Mind olen Juutalainen...
...You won't ever see these products selling in Wal- Mart or K-Mart," he says...
...We exchanged some emails suggesting we should get together, but we haven't," said Case...
...Blumberger, who has six daughters of his own, says that he hasn't sold dolls in the past because most weren't "properly dressed...
...Barbie is not a model for all Americans," Garcia says...
...Rumors circulated that "Pokemon" means "I am a Jew" in Japanese...
...By building a sukkah and taking their meals in it, Jewish families recall the temporary shelters Jews constructed during their 40 years of wandering in the desert, and their dependence on God...
...The organization aims to demonstrate how the press frequently distorts the truth in its reporting on the Middle East...
...On this wholly joyous holiday, Jews celebrate finishing reading the Torah, beginning again with Genesis 1:1...
...Built with funds from Hadassah and the Boston Jewish Community Women's fund, this site is worth recommending to any Jewish teenage girls you know.—Jeremy Epstein...
...Ina yakaduwa ne...
...In an interview with MOMENT, Krich explained that Jesse's psycho-spiritual evolution continues in her latest book "Jesse has begun keeping a kosher home and wonders how she will reconcile her deepening commitment to Judaism with her mother's and sister's antagonism toward religion," Krich says...
...Modesty: No prostitute...
...But officials say the center in Haifa will be unique...
...Fishman says the community needs to decide how much energy and money to spend on the "after-the-fact" population, and how much should be spent on the population that is still deciding...
...To get the Jews interested in the Jewish world," Boteach told Wall, "you have to get the non-Jews interested...
...i- A relatively new site that celebrates women's lives is MzVibe, http://www.mzvibe.com...
...212) 2466080...
...The awards are given annually by the American Jewish Press Association...
...Spertus Institute Of Jewish Studies, Chicago...
...For those of us looking for a warm, welcoming High Holiday service, check out "Find-A-Service" to discover one near you...
...Researchers at the Technion will focus on developing molecular chips and other devices that can be implanted inside the smallest cells and nerve endings of the human body...
...And she couldn't believe what the Barbie dolls were wearing...
...The money would be used to bolster existing lab facilities, recruit new faculty, and add new equipment...
...Sue Fishkoff took first place for excellence in feature writing for her December 2000 exclusive, "True Believers," which showed that more and more Christians in the American hinterlands are converting to Judaism for reasons of faith, instead of for marriage...
...It turns out that if the Japanese company wanted to name the game "I am a Jew," it would have been called "Watashi ha yudayajin desu," which seems not to have quite the same ring...
...It challenges the notion that smoking is cool...
...The reason...
...Fishman said, "The ball is in his court since he insulted me publicly and called into question my integrity...
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...Buzzy Gordon...
...Alexandra J. Wall took first place for excellence in personality profiles for her Boteach piece, "Making Judaism Sexy" (June 2000), her second consecutive Rockower award...
...z lch bin ein Jude...
...Schools set up collection points for parents to turn in Pokemon paraphernalia...
...Information: (202) 777-3229...
...Shadows of Sin, scheduled for publication by Morrow in September, is the latest in a series featuring Detective Jessica (Jesse) Drake, who has discovered she has Jewish roots...
...We hope the misunderstanding...
...Through October 2 1 Introspective Retrospective: Contemporary Glass by Sydney Cash, a glass art exhibit...
...In the report, Jewish and Something Else—A Study of Mixed-Married Families, Sylvia Barack Fishman, a professor of contemporary American Jewish life, argues that community outreach to intermarried couples does not work...
...The December 2000 celebration of the magazine's 25th anniversary featured articles by editor and publisher Hershel Shanks, cofounder Elie Wiesel, and Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum...
...Some thought that stars appearing on trading cards were Stars of David, and that Pokemon was part of a Zionist conspiracy to turn children from Islam...
...The holiday also celebrates the bounty of the harvest and the beauty of nature...
...MOMENT also won honorable mention in the category of excellence in a special section, for its 16-page spread "One Moment in Time...
...I honesdy believe she did not understand the behavior she was observing," Case said...
...We feel the same way...
...Still, Blumberger speculates, Ms...
...Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York City...
...She now makes clothing for about 100 clients...
...A n d W h o b y Fire...
...W h o b y W a t e r? The High Holidays are a time for reflection, repentance, honesty, solemnity, and the celebration of life...
...The Haifa-based Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, a feeder for Israeli high-tech companies with 13,000 students and 700 faculty members, is hoping to raise $55 million over the next eight years to fund the project...
...The skirts, shirts, and Ms...
...Meh yahudi hu...
...Religious leaders in Oman, Qatar, Dubai, Jordan, and Egypt quickly denounced the game...
...S u k k o t October 2 - 9 (Tishrei 15-22) This joyful holiday—something like a Jewish Thanksgiving—has two meanings...
...Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City...
...It raises issues that are important to young Jewish women, such as financial independence and Rosh Chodesh celebrations that celebrate the feminist movement...
...Garcia, a longshoreman by day, sews the outfits in her spare time...
...What she saw as] substantial Christian elements sometimes were nothing more than going to a non-Jewish relative's home on Christmas...
...The stakes are high...
...It's wires such as these that scientists will use to create other nano-scale systems...
...Hoshanah Rabbah October 8 (Tishrei 21) On the seventh day of Sukkot, the lulav and etrog are carried around the synagogue seven times and then willow branches are beaten on the ground to cast away sins...
...It focuses on making Jewish teenage girls feel more secure in their Jewish identity...
...Sometimes, we trust one account of a situation without waiting to hear the other side...
...I wouldn't want my kid to wear this stuff...
...February 2000), an article about the obstacles faced by Jews living in Germany today...
...Saito was clearly concerned...
...I didn't see any real tolerance for the other point of view...
...Jessie is still the outsider, but she is taking steps to involve herself in the Jewish community [and to] embrace the values she admires...
...The roof of the sukkah—made, for example, of branch cuttings or bambooallows its occupants to see the stars at night...
...Instead of outreach, Fishman advocates "inreach": preventing intermarriage early by promoting Jewish education...
...Jesse's mother renounced Judaism after losing family in the Holocaust, and Jesse struggles to come to terms with her Jewish heritage...
...The incorporation of biology into nanoelectronics will enable scientists to detect diseases, medicate patients, and utilize implants on a molecular level," Sivan said...
...9-13 in Washington, D.C...
...A M o d e s t Proposal When Monica Garcia was pregnant with her daughter, she went toy shopping...
...Saito was Ig er gydingur incredulous...
...Case wrote an op-ed article in the New York Jewish Week detailing his critique, and an imbroglio ensued: Fishman and Case exchanged pointed emails, and several Jewish academics jumped to Fishman's defense...
...MOMENT immediately contacted Kohei Saito, a spokesman at the Japanese Embassy, to help set the record straight...
...To say that this somehow compromises Jewish identity is absolutely ridiculous...
...is going to disappear soon," he said...
...The mission of Behind the News, www.israelvisitco.il/ BehindTheNews, is to prove that hearing the truth sometimes requires digging deeper into a story...
...In other words, she's hardly the sort of person who evokes images of murder and mayhem...
...The two sides may finally sit down at the General Assembly (GA), which will be held Nov...
...A research team headed by Sivan has already used DNA molecules to form a prototype nano-wire, a conductive silver wire 1,000 times thinner than a human hair—the first working electronic component constructed at a molecular level...
...Nanotechnology is really in its infancy," said University of Illinois Professor Gregory Timp, editor of Nanotechnologf (Springer-Verlag, 1999), a collection of articles by leading scientists and engineers, "but a large number of scientists have been pursuing it [in different areas] in order to really influence society...
...Apparently Pokemon "possessed the minds" of children, and contained hidden Zionist messages...
...Garcia takes flak from staunch Barbie fans...
...Krich's books tend to deal with controversial issues, such as date rape, assisted reproduction, and spousal abuse...
...Most people who analyze and work in the Jewish community believe it's important to do both, Fishman says, "but the question is where the emphasis should be...
Vol. 26 • October 2001 • No. 5
