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…'Phis We k Cover Story iiimersed In Israel For 15 years, Project Otzma has quietly built lasting involvement in Jewish life for young adults. ERIC L. ROZENMAN Jewish Renaissance Media Washington Iff ichael Rabkin graduated from the University of Colorado in only three years, but rather than immediately pursuing a "dot corn" job in Silicon Valley, he wanted to spend meaningful time in Israel. That desire led him to Project Otzma. Rabkin ...…
…Participants in the Otzma program sit near a stone scultpure of the Star of David on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem on April 23. From left to right: Melissa Ellstein, 22, East Lansing; Arie Paller, 21, Los Angeles; Sharone Blue, 23, Atlanta; Jennie Allan, 24, Ann Arbor; and Michael Telpner, 24, Toronto. women in Israeli life for 10 months. This up-to-the-elbows participation takes many forms. For Melissa Ellstein, 22, of East Lansing, it meant living...…
…417071§92 111 11 ,4111 :1 11 1 1:0, other Home recalls. "She cooked for us, talked to us, opened our hearts. And we taught English in the old age home; tried to stimulate the older people. "I would also rollerblade from this poor, ethnic neighborhood across town to tutor kids in upscale north- ern Tel Aviv," he says. were about their parents' fears. ROCHELLE FURSTENBERG Paller's only disappointment was "I would call my mom before she Jewish ...…
…'411101101001. 1110100011111 1 1101.000 0100100 Now 1010.MMIIMMIIIMINIPIMMOMINIPM11190110 1 . - 4 Maccabiah Gaines will Bean July 16 SHARON SAMB ER Jewish Telegraphic Agency with adoptive fami- less," Cherner says. Otzma particpants, from lies — the partici- To Caryn Jennie Allan andMelissa Ellstein pant's home away Rosen-Adelman, lay stones on the grave of Golda from home, another co-chair of Project Meir on Mt. Herd as, from left, way i...…
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…This Week Small Enough To Save A new program helps declining Jewish communities in the South preserve a precious subculture. ANDREW MUCHIN Jewish Renaissance Media •." Jackson, Miss. 111 ost Friday evenings, Jerry Krouse stands with an open prayer book before the carved Italian marble ark of Temple B'nai Israel in Natchez, Miss., a Mississippi River town of about 20,000 souls roughly 75 miles southwest of Jackson. He checks the majestic...…
…- His handful of professional staffers includes new program director Lynette Allen. An experienced Jewish communal programmer, she is planning the annual Southern States Jewish Film Festival to bring Jewish-themed movies to small- and medium-sized Jewish communities in November. Seven communi- ties — Augusta, Ga.; Little Rock, Ark.; Meridian, Miss.; Montgomery, Ala.; Monroe, La.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Tulsa, Okla. — are on board. Allen also i...…
…What's The Next Move? Israel and United States seem at a loss for effective peace plans. NY • MATTHEW E. BERGER Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington ne year after a Camp David summit pro- duced the greatest hope yet that a far- reaching peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians was attainable, it now appears that peace is as elusive as ever. Both the Israelis and the Bush administration are at a loss for what to do next to quel...…
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…Tr Week News Digest Reform OKs Convert Guidelines New York/JTA — The U.S. Reform movement approved guidelines June 27 that embrace traditional conversion rituals, welcome potential converts and call for prospective Jews to adopt certain Jewish practices, such as join- ing a synagogue, celebrating Jewish holidays and observing certain rituals. Court Won't Override Religious Law Adam had a diving accident on August 1, 1999 that has left him...…
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…This Week Insight En`rich'ing Young Jewish Lives U-Al Hitters Rabbi Rich Kirschen accepts directorship in Rhode Island. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Stair Writer I asked Rich Kirschen to come to work with us at University of Michigan Hillel three minutes after I met him five years ago," recalls Michael Brooks, executive director of the Hillel Foundation at U-M. As Rabbi Richard Kirschen readies to leave his position as U-M's associate Hillel d...…
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…OTHER VIEWS FINGER POINTING from page 29 Missing in Action Philadelphia ecently, while. listening to the news on National Public Radio, listeners heard the announcer read- ing the headlines inadvertently sum up the contradic- tions and misper- ceptions inherent in the conven- tional wisdom of the day about the Middle East. Listeners were JONATHAN S. told that a Palestinian sui- " TOBIN cide-bomber had Special managed to mur- Commentary der ...…
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…Synagogue Earns Grant For Retreat Congregation Ahavat Shalom of Traverse City, led by Rabbi Stacie Fine, has received a $60,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to plan and pilot a Jewish retreat center in northern Michigan. The center will help meet the spiritual needs of those interested in contemporary Jewish practice, phi- losophy and spirituality. Says Rabbi Fine, "We are creating a new Jewish retreat center with a focus on an incl...…
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