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Shavuos Youth

Family spiritual countdown

Family spiritual countdown

Let’s be honest, self-reflection is tough. Given the choice of mulling over the virtues and vices of the latest American Idol contestants or pondering those of ourselves, we’d pick the former without skipping a beat.

But we Jews are not about to get off so easily — especially since the second night of Passover officially kicked off the Omer, the 49-day countdown that will culminate with the celebration of Shavuot, (May 22-24), when we commemorate G-d’s gift of the Torah to the ancient Israelites.

This seven-week period is, like the spring in which it arrives, a journey of growth and renewal.

According to the mystical Jewish tradition of Kabbalah, during the cycle of the Omer it is considered a mitzvah to take a hard look at ourselves and objectively examine how we size up in light of the seven essential drives and traits of the human heart: discipline, kindness, compassion, humility, leadership, endurance and bonding.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 May 2009 10:43 )

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Israel Independence

Herb Keinon: Hometown boy makes good as diplomatic correspondent

Herb Keinon: Hometown boy makes good as diplomatic correspondent

In a coffee shop in his native city, as a Denver spring blizzard howls outside, Herb Keinon contemplates the roads not taken.

More than two decades ago, with a brand new master’s degree in journalism in his pocket, he chose to head for Israel, over any number of other options that might have been open to him.

“It’s amazing,” he says, sipping coffee and staring at the Colorado snow. “Sometimes I think I might have gotten a job at the Topeka Standard, or whatever the name of the paper is. I would have been covering city council.”

Instead, he landed a job as a copy editor at the Jerusalem Post, a job which turned into reporter for a weekly supplement, then reporter for the main daily edition, up to the present day, when his business card carries the title of diplomatic correspondent.

Translation: That’s a frontline job at a frontline newspaper in a frontline city in a frontline country.

Last Updated ( Friday, 01 May 2009 09:44 )

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Israel Independence

'My first time in Israel'

'My first time in Israel'

Larry Hankin, IJN Associate Editor

It was 1972, and I was finishing my freshman year at college. I worked full time and lived at home during that first year of school, so I had a little money saved up.

My best friend and I were planning to drive cross-country, right after school was out, from Kansas City to California in my 1969 VW bug to do whatever young people did when they made a pilgrimage to California in those days.  Needless to say, my folks weren’t thrilled about our free-spirited , lack-of-any-real-plans itinerary.

My Dad pointed out to me that I could afford a trip to Israel, and wouldn’t that be a lot more meaningful and a better use of my hard-earned money than trekking to California in my not-so-reliable car?

Last Updated ( Friday, 01 May 2009 09:59 )

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Kosher Living

Worldwide Maggid bringing back an old tradition

Worldwide Maggid bringing back an old tradition

A schoolboy brings his expensive watch to the yeshiva one day and leaves it on his desk during recess. When he returns to the classroom, the watch is gone...

An Orthodox couple divorces after years of unsuccessfully trying to have a family. Shortly after the divorce is granted, the wife learns that she is pregnant...

A young Romanian Jewish girl, who watcher her father being slain by the Nazis, is given a doll and a watch — and a chance to gain freedom and safety by escaping to Israel — but she refuses the offer...

Thus begin three true stories, a tiny fraction of the hundreds  that constitute the life’s work, religious mission and personal passion of Rabbi Paysach Krohn, raconteur extraordinaire — or, to use the term that has come most succinctly to describe him, maggid.

Last Updated ( Friday, 27 March 2009 11:32 )

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Kosher Living

'The Deli' - your local Swiss army knife

'The Deli' - your local Swiss army knife

It is said that the kitchen is the heart of the home, and that may be especially true in a Jewish home, where so many rituals and observances revolve around special meals.

If the kitchen is the heart of the home, then it can be argued that the East Side Kosher Deli (“the Deli”) is the heart of the Denver Jewish community.

From this busy building at 499 S. Elm St. in Glendale, thousands of Jewish mouths are fed, with ingredients purchased from  the Deli, prepared take-out meals, repasts in the Deli’s restaurant or meetings and celebrations in the banquet rooms, all under the watchful eye of the of “chief cook and bottle washers” Michael and Marcy Schreiber.

The Schreibers’ and the Deli’s identities are intertwined. The role the Deli plays in the life Denver’s Jewish community is in no small part due to its owners’ long hours and sense of responsibility. Their imprint is seen, felt — and tasted — in every aspect of this institution.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 March 2009 03:25 )

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JTA News

Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard

3 July 2009, 11:42 am A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.... [Link]

Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam

3 July 2009, 11:36 am Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.... [Link]

Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false

3 July 2009, 11:29 am Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.... [Link]

Palestinian swine flu cases rising

2 July 2009, 5:18 pm A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.... [Link]

Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire

2 July 2009, 4:55 pm The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.... [Link]

Clinton, Fayyad meet

2 July 2009, 4:45 pm Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.... [Link]

Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status

2 July 2009, 3:16 pm Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... [Link]

U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property

2 July 2009, 2:50 pm A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.... [Link]

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