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High Tech vs. low wages: Balance needed in Israel

There is no limit to the technological creativity — the apps, the environmental devices, the medical advances, the energy savers — coming out of Israel today. It’s...

Art and Torah

IN Talia Carner’s newest novel, Jerusalem Maiden, Esther Kaminsky, a young teenage girl growing up in the old world neighborhood of Meah Shearim at the turn of the last...

September

September brings with it a feeling of “change is in the air.” Between the cooling temperatures and the beginning of loss of color on some of the leaves, that special...

The Frozen Rabbi, thawed

What happens when a cryogenically preserved rabbi is discovered by a randy fifteen year old, and then subsequently defrosted when a freak electric storm hits suburban...

Values versus abilities

You’d expect the tanking economy and the unrest in Libya and Egypt to dominate the talk around the water cooler and over the airwaves these days. Not so in Denver!...

Think of the possibilities

We admit, cremation is not the most appetizing of subjects, even if brought up only to emphasize that it violates the Jewish way of burial — still, there are surely...

Egypt is responsible for the terrorism against Israel that comes from . . . Egypt

Nobody wants to return to the days when Egypt routinely made war on, or sponsored terrorists attacks against, Israel. Nobody, that is, in Israel and the West. But in...

‘The Help’

I SAW the movie “The Help” this week. When the book by the same title by Kathryn Stockett came out, one of my sisters read it and recommended it, and […]

Still the only solution to the world’s problems

There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth. It is 3,000 years old. And it is known as the Ten...

Somalia today: Worse than dying is killing — your own

Nice. Good program. Provocative. Great hook to get teens engaged in Judaism. A discussion hosted a couple of weeks ago by the Jewish Student Union, a new local group...