American ideas boost bid to get Israelis to work

By Dina Kraft
Published on March 8, 2007

STRIVE, an intensive work-readiness program, is modeled after an initiative of the same name that began more than 20 years ago in New York's Harlem in an effort to help women on welfare overcome their severe difficulties in finding and keeping meaningful jobs.

Online social scene clicks with younger set

By Sharon Duke Estroff
Published on January 18, 2007

Save the few Web sites with supertight security (most of which are considered too babyish by tweens and up), worry resounds throughout kiddie cybersocial world. While parental e-mail consent may be required before activating a child's registration, there's no way for a Web site to determine whether the e-mailed permission is indeed linked to a parent.

To comfort me, first comfort yourself

By Rabbi Anne Brener
Published on November 2, 2006

The wisdom to help others is not privileged information. It is taught to all of us through our life experiences.

Keeping the SAT Drama to a Minimum

By Julie Brown
Published on February 23, 2006

Applying to college was not this complicated 25(ish) years ago. I think I took a PSAT. I know I took the SAT. I took it one time. I did relatively well. I got into UCLA. But times have changed. If I packaged up my high school transcripts and SAT score today, UCLA probably would laugh my application right out of the admissions building.

The Hebrascope: Signs of the Jewdiac

By Jew Girl
Published on February 2, 2006

Hebrascope

Fight the Minotaur in the Tax Labyrinth

By John Chiang
Published on December 1, 2005

This past September, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles, the Zimmer Children's Museum and representatives of more than 70 other organizations attended a seminar for nonprofits that I conducted at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles.

After the Miscarriage

By Andrea Lesch Weiss
Published on November 3, 2005

The pain and anguish of infertility has been passed down from matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca and Rachel to women today. But while our traditions have given us words to say and ways to act during other lifecycle events -- death, birth, marriage -- there is little guidance for how to help a friend or loved one deal with the loss of a pregnancy or the pain and despair of infertility.

Play It Again, Sam

By Sam Shmikler
Published on November 18, 2004

We are in kickoff month for the '05 divorced model year.

Monk Could Be Way to Mideast Peace

By Larry Kasanoff
Published on August 5, 2004

There are only two ways to ever make peace in the Middle East, and both are extreme. One is for one side to obliterate the other in a military conquest. The other, far more favorable approach, is for an unrelated third party to broker peace. For this to succeed, this person must come with absolutely no agenda -- not one of country, religion, politics or money. Just peace.

Monk Could Be Way to Mideast Peace

By Larry Kasanoff
Published on July 29, 2004

Next week, I am sponsoring a group of Israelis and Palestinians to spend a few weeks in a small village in southern France with a Buddhist monk named Thich Nhat Hanh. These two disparate groups of people do not know each other, but often feel hatred toward each other. Some of them have been hurt in the war.

But by the end of the two weeks, under the guidance of the monks, the Israelis and the Palestinians will learn to listen to, understand, forgive and maybe even like each other. They will be at peace.

Could this work on a larger scale for their respective countries? I think so.

Court Fence Ruling Upholds Rule of Law

By M.J. Rosenberg
Published on July 8, 2004

In 1832, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the United States government could not force the Native American Cherokee tribe out of its Georgia homes and into reservations in Oklahoma.

Beth Sholom’s New Siddur

By Journal Staff
Published on December 5, 2002

To address the needs of congregants not fully comfortable with Hebrew liturgy, Rabbi Shelton J. Donnell, along with a group of lay leaders, spent eight years developing a new siddur.

Why Are We in Kosovo?

Published on April 1, 1999

I always thought that historical perspective helped sharpen the mind by illuminating the choices that loomed ahead. But when I look at the awful state of affairs in Kosovo, I am not so certain that history offers much guidance. Maybe, though, if we try to look at the past freshly and innovatively, we might just find a better solution for Kosovo and its moslem victims than the one President Clinton is offering. More about that later.