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New B’ney Mitzvah Program For Adults In Santa Monica
Temple Beth Shir Shalom has announced the formation of a newly created B’ney Mitzvah program for adults. Starting Feb. 16 at 7 p.m., classes will continue for about 18 months, culminating in a community B’ney Mitzvah ceremony in the fall of 2013. “We are very excited about the program,” says Beth Shir Shalom Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels. “It is important to provide opportunities for adults to ...
Crowdsourcing: writing history on the Internet
Internet users have been generating content on social networks for a long time. Now, archives and libraries are tapping into that resource to fill information gaps.
In Las Vegas, Making Sure the Caucuses Accommodate
As the number of Orthodox Jews in Nevada continues to grow, a special Republican caucus has been organized for Saturday night, and is expected to draw a few hundred Sabbath observers.
Event at Magnes to zero in on specific eras, untold stories in 150 years of local Jewish history
What do chicken ranchers, anti-Zionists and pot-smoking hippies have in common? At one time or another during the 20th century, sizeable contingents of Bay Area Jews fit each of those descriptions.
Brentwood Gazette commented Essex youngsters learn lessons of the Holocaust at exhibition
THE bravery of the Dutch watchmaker Corrie Ten Boom, who helped save the lives of up to 800 Jews during the Second World War, was...
Transforming A Jewish Museum In Order To Save It
"The story of how the Judah L. Magnes Museum - whose collection of Judaica is the third largest in the country - became the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, ... has much to do with the evolution of the American identity museum, with its chronicles of ethnic liberation amid hardship."
Judaica in Berkeley: The Judah L. Magnes Museum, an...
The Judah L. Magnes Museum, an archive and collection representing the cultural history of the Diaspora and especially Jews in the Western US, reopened Sunday after a two-year hiatus in a new building on Allston Way designed by Pfau Long...
Little Star students shine on big stage at Eltingville Jewish preschool performance
Youngsters who attend the Jewish Little Star Preschool in Eltingville, including Adam Shalem, Rachel Benzaken, Michael Nisuyev, Madison Terzo, Joycee Howard and Shiran Day, performed at the Walt Whitman Theater in Brooklyn recently. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The children at...
Ex-Buddhist, rabbi to talk about new book
Rabbi Ken Lipman, a former Buddhist and a scholar of Asian religions, will talk about his new book at Afikomen Judaica in Berkeley on Jan. 29. “Kingdoms of Experience: The Four Worlds of Kabbalah as Prayer and Meditation” is geared toward both beginning and practiced meditators.
Signed, sealed, deposed: The letter that nearly did in Yaakov Neeman
When a distraught businessman approached attorney Yaakov Neeman for advice following testimony given to police about Aryeh Deri, Neeman told him to write a letter qualifying the information. Five years later, that conversation nearly spelled the end of Neeman’s rise to Justice Minister.
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