The 20th century offered repeated incontrovertible proof that launching a campaign against genocide, getting it to permeate the collective consciousness and mobilizing the masses to take action is a difficult challenge.
In response to these unprecedented overtures, some in our community have called for ending all dialogue with Presbyterians. I believe that is exactly the wrong response. What we need is a renewed dialogue that would occur on two levels.
On-campus Jewish groups were upset that the administration did not get outside verification of the meaning and symbolic nature of the stole, said Jeffrey Rips, executive director of the Hillel Foundation of Orange County.
I want to respond to my observant friends who have asked me to answer this question: What can they take from a Jew who doesn\’t believe the Torah is the word of God and who feels no need or obligation to follow His commandments? What can they take from that \”truth\”?
The following piece was written after a recent trip to Haiti, during which a delegation from MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger was hosted by the Lambi Fund, one of MAZON\’S longtime grantees.
Despite winning a $5,900 grant in December 2001 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to present the program free to 2,000 students, Hadassah\’s Long Beach-Orange County chapter has, so far, found few takers.
A woman who had taken fertility treatments became pregnant only to learn that she was carrying four embryos.
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