Efforts Under Way to Raise Aid Funds
Local and national Jewish organizations have mobilized to help tsunami victims and invite the community to participate, as well.\n\n
Local and national Jewish organizations have mobilized to help tsunami victims and invite the community to participate, as well.\n\n
\”People wear this jewelry to make a statement,\” Yael Swerdlow said, \”and we hope to make ours.\”
During Jewish holidays and festivals, many of us recite the familiar blessings for our loved ones.
It\’s bad enough that Israeli doctors are spending their lives in emergency rooms treating Jewish and Arab victims of suicide bombers. What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
We arrived at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where some 2,000 victims have been treated during the current intifada, less than 24 hours after a particularly horrific bus bombing in Jerusalem. Hours earlier, teams of Jewish-Arab doctors had done what they\’ve done for the past two years: jumped into action to save the lives of the critically injured.
The stench in New York after Sept. 11 reminded Julia Millman of Europe.
The Jewish community in the West Valley and surrounding areas was rocked Feb. 5 by the murder of William and Bertha Lasky, former members of Temple Solael.