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Pullman Stars on the Drive Home

\”I am very proud of my Jewish heritage,\” Jason Pullman said, talking to The Journal from the Clear Channel offices (Star\’s parent company). \”I used to use stage names, but then as of four or five years ago [I decided] I am myself, and that is only person that I want to be.\”

No Half Love!

\”Love is a fine thing,\” the Yiddish saying goes, \”but love with noodles is even tastier.\”

Learning to Listen

Jewish prayer is a spiritual discipline for regaining wonder each day. One hundred times a day we are instructed to stop and recite a bracha recognizing the miraculous in each moment of life.

A Divine Voice

God spoke to me once when I was 12 years old. Although it happened years ago, I remember it as clearly as if it were today. Revelation is a tricky thing. I am reminded of the Midrash that when God gave the commandments at Mt. Sinai, God speaks to the Children of Israel in a divine voice so powerful they are too terrified to hear anything beyond the very first word of the first commandment. Since even that was too much to bear, God arranged it so they only heard the first letter of the first word. The first word is Anohi (\”I am\”), and the first letter is an alef, which is silent. So the rabbis teach us that what the Jewish people heard when God spoke was the Divine Silence of the mitzvot. Within that Divine Silence, each woman and man experienced her or his own unique divine revelation.

Of Goddesses and Saints

In the aftermath of thedeaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa, every woman I know hasparticipated in some version of \”The Goddess or the Saint.\” We\’vetaken sides, debated our husbands and boyfriends, our mothers, ourfriends. At Torah study last Saturday, we weighed the two women interms of a moral dilemma: The princess or the nun, the glamour or thegrit. Our choice of icons defines our lives.\n\n

Reality Bites

Are seniors at Milken Community High School really \”Wildcats\” after all? Aaron Fishman, outgoing student body president, told me that earlier this year, students tried to change the school\’s sports mascot from the Wildcats to \”something more Jewish.\”\n

The Family Man

The restaurant billboard advertised its Father\’s Day brunch in letters too large to miss. \”If I had a father, we could take him out to eat,\” my daughter, Samantha, said, as we drove by.

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