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Campus groups offer students cash for Torah study
Ben Harris
August 21, 2008
Several years ago, Rabbi Shlomo Levin hit on a new way to attract students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to classes at his nearby Orthodox synagogue. Instead of spending money on eye-catching advertising, Levin reasoned it would be simpler just to give the money directly to the students in exchange for attendance
Temple bingo — a gamble if it’s a good way to raise funds
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
July 31, 2008
Typically associated with American Legion halls, Elks clubs and churches, the sedentary game that caters to seniors is not often associated with Jewish houses of worship. But a few synagogues across the Southland have offered weekly bingo nights as temple fundraisers for decades
But Is It Kosher?
Rob Eshman
June 8, 2006
It surprised me that a company well-known for its concern for animal well-being and food safety would deem anything kosher treif, or unfit. Long before Whole Foods was even a glimmer in the eye of the Prius-tocracy, hadn\’t we Jews been telling ourselves and others that we were practicing humane slaughter and thoughtful animal husbandry — embodied in the very laws of kashrut? What did Whole Foods know that I didn\’t?
Humanistic Judaism Trods Different Path
Gaby Wenig
January 16, 2003
Rabbi Sherwin Wine of Birmingham Temple in Detroit founded Humanistic Judaism in 1963. Today, there are over 30,000 Jews involved with Humanistic Judaism in North America, including 1,000 in the greater Los Angeles area.
Turn Off the TV
Ari L. Goldman
June 12, 1997
What\’s the biggest problem facing today\’s high school graduate? Separating fantasy from reality. And television is the culprit.
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