NEW YORK — The Jewish Federations of North America’s board of trustees passed a resolution supporting Natan Sharansky’s proposed compromise on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.
The Monday, June 3, resolution, according to a JFNA statement, says the compromise “develops a pathway whereby the Kotel will once again become a spiritual center for all Jews and a symbol of unity for the entire Jewish community world-wide.”
Announced in April, the proposal would expand and raise the ar...
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of society’s ills.
But many just want an answer to a simple question: Is he wearing Google Glass?
Cohen is among the approximately 2,000 developers throughout the US who are trying out the search giant’s much-hyped wearable computer, a futuristic Internet-connecte...
LOS ANGELES — Movie mavens may have to come up with a new genre to classify “Hannah Arendt,” the biopic of the German-Jewish philosopher.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott suggests it is an action film — albeit one in which the weapons are ideas and theories are volleyed on a battlefield where a questionable hypothesis can turn lifelong friends into bitter enemies.
Director Margarethe von Trotta, who has dealt previously with complex Jewish women (“Rosa Luxemburg”) and the Nazi era ...
A fair warning to all Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and other detractors of the Democratic Party: This is an article exclusively of and about Democrats.The reason for such gross imbalance, however unusual it may seem, should be obvious. As virtually everyone in Colorado already knows, next week the Democratic National Convention will be storming to town, intent on formally nominating its “presumptive” presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, not to mention kicking off the critica...
RABBI Eliav Bock, founding director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure at Ramah in the Rockies, is one of five Jewish educators selected to receive The Covenant Foundation’s 2012 Pomegranate Prize.
The prize honors emerging professionals in Jewish educational settings across the country.
In addition to Bock, recipients include Maya Bernstein, strategic design officer at UpStart Bay Area, San Francisco; Rabbi Nicole Greninger, director of education at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, Calif.; Rabbi Barry Kis...
David Alan Valas, partner in the Valas family TV store in Denver, passed away June 5, 2013. Rabbis Bernard Gerson, Aaron Finkelstein and Benjy Brackman officiated at the June 7 service at Rodef Shalom.
Interment followed at Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
“He will be missed by his large family and numerous friends,” his loved ones said.
Mr. Valas was born Aug. 26, 1950, in Denver. He graduated from George Washington High and earned his MBA from CU....