…Helping Kids Read Is Mitzvah Project Ann Arbor A midst all the studying of the Torah portion and how to chant it, it is also expect- ed that the bat mitzvah student take on what is called a mitzvah project — that is, a project that helps some- one in some way. For her task, our daugh- ter Gabbi chose to help set up a program that provides books for low-income parents to read to their children. Not being Jewish, I found the whole bat mitz- v...…
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…iN 41“;#11,0444i4Viti4411044:4ilkilk JCC camp program teaches developmentally disabled teens life skills. by Alex Zaslo\s- Top: Jon Rein- heimer, 16, gets real to practice some job skills at the JCC, Front row: Erin Finn, 1.7: Mallory Stoddard, 15: Blake Jackson, 16: Jon Reinheimer, 16 Back row; Tyler Davis, 16: Dylan Yates, 16: and Jay Hodes, 15. hile washing windows last week. campers at the Jewish Community Center in West ...…
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…Israel by Nechama Tawil votta love life in Israel takes some adjustment, then it feels like home. he phrase may be "sharpen your mind," but when it comes to Israel, "sharpen your el- bows" may be more appropriate. Welcome to the country where push always comes to shove. Checkout lines or bus boarding, though safe in other countries, can leave you bruised and aching here. And it's not just getting on the bus that can in- jure you; the ride ...…
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…(Thoughts Questions Abound About Case Against Ex-AIPAC Staffers Abbe D. Lowell, Baruch Weiss and John Nassikas Special Commentary Why in the mid- to late-1990s was the government's counter-intelligence appa- ratus selectively aimed at the pro-Israel foreign policy lobby in general and AIPAC Washington/JTA in particular, when the same case could have been made against literally hundreds t was just eight weeks ago that the of other lobbyists ...…
…Israel's Eternal Capital New York e all hear much these days about competing Jewish and Muslim claims to Jerusalem and how a political division of the city is necessary if there is to be any peace. But what if the Muslim claim to Jerusalem is largely contrived and inflated? The evidence shows that it is. Whereas Jerusalem is Judaism's holi- est city, mentioned over 600 times in the Bible and in dozens of prayers and rituals, Jerusalem is not...…
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