Q&A with Rhoda Weisman -- Jewish woman on top

By Danielle Berrin
Published on September 3, 2008

Rhoda Weisman, executive director of the Professional Leaders Project, which is designed to engender and support a new generation of leaders in the Jewish community, talks about why the Jewish establishment needs to change, why young leaders are just as crucial as big donors and what it's like to be a woman at the top.

Big Ideas for the Jewish Future: The Boomerang Effect

By Rabbi Naomi Levy
Published on November 9, 2006

Reaching unaffiliated Boomers who begin to ponder midlife.

Singles - When Boomers Date

By Paula Tavrow
Published on May 11, 2006

Sex at the Skirball

By Hank Rosenfeld
Published on April 13, 2006

When sexy authors like Erica Jong and Jerry Stahl get together onstage, you expect fireworks. But when I drag my friend Kay up to Skirball for the Writers Bloc conversation, the room is too bright, and Kay tells me Jong's blue-framed eyeglasses and gold necklace make her come off more Carol Channing than "sex goddess."

Israeli Superstars Rock the Diaspora

By Amy Klein
Published on March 2, 2006

Each of the artists' songs have flooded the radio waves for nearly five decades, a soundtrack, of sorts, to Israel's many wars, casualties, celebrations, assassinations, and shifting moods -- from hopeful to cynical and hopeful again.