Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS Israeli Spy Released Yosef Amit, an Israeli who was recruited to spy for the United States and whose story was told in MOMENT (October 1993) has been released four years before the...
...NOTES & NEWS Israeli Spy Released Yosef Amit, an Israeli who was recruited to spy for the United States and whose story was told in MOMENT (October 1993) has been released four years before the expiration of his 12-year sentence...
...Two years later, Clol/er and Herman sold 300.000 cases...
...Users can choose one of three ways to aceess the Torah wisdom: by selecting the book, chapter or Averse they wish to study, by Choosing a conceptual topic (e.g., people, places, values), or by browsing through a diverse 500-topic index...
...Doctors David Wolf and Martin Fettman returned from their first voyage to the heavens care of NASA, where they served respectively as spacelab systems coordinator and payload specialist...
...whii li was |Mi|iul.il among immigrant Jews earK in the century...
...Aid to Bosnian Refugees The American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development and relief organization, is appealing to the American Jewish community for funds to assist in relief efforts in the former Yugoslavia...
...AJWS will use the funds to send desperately needed medical supplies to facilities that give free care to all members of the surrounding communities, most of whom are Bosnian refugees...
...Wolf grew up in a Conservative home in Indianapolis and Fettman studied in an Orthodox school in Brooklyn...
...1 lennan recalls, "kids would slop .ill >11 a (ullee shop and buy a i.indv bar and an egg (ream...
...To implement this effort, AJWS has formed a partnership with die Jewish community of Zagreb, which will distribute the medical supplies to area clinics and hospitals...
...Contributions can be sent to AJWS-Bosnia Relief Fund, 15 W. 26di St., New York, NY 10010...
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...After toughing it out in the Big Apple, Lurie's wife and kids have returned to the West Coast...
...It is expected that he will soon be released...
...In 19N7, Jeffrey (.lui/ti and David I In man learned up with a chemist to re-create the famous egg i ream ilnnk...
...He will be leaving, according to sources, after a successor is found...
...In I.ong Island and New Jersey, Snapple trucks do...
...A CD-ROM drive is required to run theprogratm For more information contact Torah iProductions...
...He is unlikely to talk, however, because he can be reincarcerated if he does...
...Pepsi (>>la (rucks now earn the drink...
...Jell's Kgg Cream liii the market and sold 3,;-MMI cases...
...The former San Francisco federation top-exec was originally hesitant to lake the New York-based UJA job because of his family's reluctance to leave the Bay Area...
...C O M P U T E R C O R N E R Computer Corner A computer program that cross-references every -verse' in the Torah with 10,000 midraMm, rabbinic arguments, quotations and comments is now available pn CD-ROM...
...Drinking Up Nostalgia l'\rn as lasi-food restaurants rcplai <• ()1<I World candy stores in formerly Jewish immigrant neighborhoods, the nostalgic egg cream is making a comeback...
...There have been other Jewish astronauts, but this was the first time there were two Jews on one space mission...
...With Torah La-Am (Torah for the People), a bar or bat mitzvah preparing a speech on Bereshit, a rabbi working on a Ybm Kippur sermon about tes/mixz/i, or someone wanting to find Torah verses on vegetarianism can have the entire Torah and a vast number of Jewish texts open up at the tap of a fewcomputer keys...
...Jews in Space Two Jews, two mezuzot and a shofar were aboard the space shuttle Columbia on its 14-day October mission, reports RuUi Baum Bigus...
...In the live iMinmghs ol New York...
...Word is that Jonathan Pollard's commutation papers have been drawn up but remain unsigned by President Clinton...
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...Recently, (ilol/er and Herman began moving llieir dunk into new markets, including Philadelphia, Florida and Baltimore, with future expansion coming scum...
...They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco After only two years on the job in New York, United Jewish Appeal executive vice-president Rabbi Brian Lurie may be calling it quits...
...I In in.ill credits great taste, no competition and nostalgia as the keys to the di ink's |x>pu-l.ii m As a child...
Vol. 18 • December 1993 • No. 6
