Archive for the ‘Jew’ Category
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 |
The Los Angeles Jewish Home, the largest single-source provider of senior housing in Los Angeles, has
selected longtime Home board member and past president of Jewish Big Brothers of Los Angeles David Swartz as its new board of directors’ chair effective July 1. Newly elected to the board were Marshall A. Gluchow, Gary Goldfein and Robert Rodin.
Swartz, who succeeds Arthur A. Greenberg in the Home’s top volunteer leadership spot, performs accounting, auditing and business advisory services at Good Swartz Brown & Berns, a Division of JH Cohn LLP, and is the immediate past managing partner of the firm. He has over 35 years of experience providing business advisory services to clients in several industries, including manufacturing, wholesale, retail, entertainment, real estate and professional services.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 |
Over 150 Ugandans and Kenyans will formally convert to Judaism in a ceremony to be held this week
in the village of Nabogoye near Mbale, Uganda. They join a community of 800 Abayudaya Jews led by Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, who was recently ordained at American Jewish University, a seminary of Conservative Judaism in Los Angeles, California, through a fellowship from Be’chol Lashon.
The ceremony will be conducted according to Jewish law. Rabbi Sizomu will convene and participate in a religious court (beit din) of Conservative rabbis from the United States that will supervise the ritual immersion (mikvah). The converts include men, women and children ranging in age from four to eighty years old, and are mostly rural farmers, but also include small business owners and professionals.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 |
A new website (http://www.shofarcoalition.org) provides background on the issue of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect of Jewish children. It helps identify, advocate for, respond to, and provide specialized services for children, adolescents, and adults who are suffering from the impact of
child maltreatment. Although the Shofar Coalition is a Baltimore-based group, the information on the website is applicable to any Jewish community.
“Nobody really wants to face the fact that physical, sexual, or emotional abuse could be happening in our families, in our schools, in our synagogues, in our community, and that’s really the biggest issue — helping people understand that putting it on a shelf and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away,” said Esther Giller, president and director of the nonprofit Sidran Traumatic Stress Institute of Baltimore.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 |
(Excerpts from PM Olmert’s Jerusalem Day speech at Ammunition Hill)
Today, 41 years since the Six Day War, it is time, after a great delay, to finally close the chapters of war and write a new book for Jerusalem, with its title taken from the prophecy of Isaiah, which was heard in this city 2,700 years ago and which still resonates: “How pleasant are the footsteps of the herald upon the mountains announcing peace, heralding good tidings…”
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Monday, May 26th, 2008 |
The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) considers a recent initiative by King Abdullah bin
Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for a reinforced dialogue between the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) to be an important development in the area of inter-faith dialogue. In a statement, the WJC Steering Committee welcomed the King’s initiative:
“The World Jewish Congress believes that all religions, and especially the Religions of the Book, can work together in responding to the challenges posed by the developments in society in these times. The WJC supports the proposal to bring together members of the Abrahamic faiths to discuss common values. Such an initiative demonstrates optimism that dialogue involving representatives of different faiths can help the peoples of the world during difficult times. Discussion can help in finding ways to
approach the crisis of ethical values facing our societies. It is the duty of all religions to restore respect for humanity. The WJC strongly believes that through discussion and debate between brethren who share a common root we will learn that the ideals, aspirations and values that we share far outweigh any difference we may have.” In March, King Abdullah had told a seminar on ‘Culture and the Respect of Religions’ in Riyadh: “The idea is to ask representatives of all monotheistic religions to sit together with their brothers in faith and sincerity to all religions as we all believe in the same God.”
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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, the Israel Museum presents two major sections of the Great Isaiah Scroll – the most complete biblical Dead Sea Scroll document ever found and one of the world’s greatest archeological treasures – in a special installation in the Shrine of the Book.