Jewish Exponent News Feed http://www.jewishexponent.com Gil Zohar Jewish Exponent Feature JERUSALEM Lea and Alexander Farkash, with son Asher, at the newly restored Zedek ve-Shalom Synagogue [Photo by Gil Zohar]A group of young adults from the tiny, 200-member Jewish community in Parimaribo,... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21785/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21785/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Photo by Jordan CasswayFredda Sacharow Jewish Exponent Feature For parents, it's all about packing away buckets and sand shovels, and hauling out dressy clothes. For their children, it means transitioning from playing on the beach to sitt... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21826/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21826/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Edmon J. Rodman Jewish Telegraphic Agency What can Tiger Woods and Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the founder of Toyota motors, teach us about teshuvah? With Selichot -- a service of repentance-centered prayers said in preparation for the... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21819/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21819/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT From left: Sen. Mike Stack, Sen. Daylin Leach, Rep. Curt Schroder and Sen. Kim Wardin JerusalemWhile in the midst of a campaign two years ago, State Sen. Kim Ward, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Westmoreland County in southwest Pennsy... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21817/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21817/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Suzanne Kurtz Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON Steven Levine is matter-of-fact about his family's upcoming plans for Rosh Hashanah. At the dinner table with his wife, Leslie, everyone will share resolutions, round-robin style. He wi... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21813/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21813/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Not a synagogue member? Don't have High Holiday tickets? Don't feel like shelling out money for admittance to services? Truth be told, free options locally for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are not very plentiful. But they're out there if... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21818/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21818/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Jewish Telegraphic Agency Lawrence A. HoffmanHigh on the list of Jewish martyr stories still retold -- or at least, alluded to -- every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is the terrible medieval tale of Rabbi Amnon of... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21820/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21820/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT State Department, ADL Slam Rabbi WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Obama administration condemned what it said was incitement by an influential Israeli rabbi. On the eve of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef -- a former chief S... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21786/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21786/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Devorah Lauter Jewish Telegraphic Agency PARIS This Roma camp in Pantin, which lies north of Paris, received an eviction notice at the end of July as part of the French president's crackdown on illegal Gypsy shantytowns. [Photo by Devora... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21784/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21784/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Rosalind SpiegelFor more than 70 years, the Jewish Labor Committee has had a presence in Philadelphia. But there's a real chance that the local office could close up shop before Labor Day of next year, according to the organization's leader... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21825/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21825/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT In the Torah, we are given a commandment that on the first day of the seventh month (Tishrei), "you shall observe complete rest, a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts" (Leviticus 23:24). These loud blasts, or teruah, were understo... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21814/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21814/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency WASHINGTON A dispute surrounded a trip by a delegation of Muslim leaders, and a U.S. official, to Auschwitz and Dachau.Eight imams bowed in prayer before a sculpture at Dachau vividly representing th... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21815/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21815/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT President Barack Obama with crew from the International Space Station: Getting into orbit seems easy compared to a resolution in the Middle East. Washington It's a peace conference where nothing is off the table -- or on it, for that ma... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21776/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21776/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Moshe Zohar, who grew these pomegranate trees on his farm in the Negev Desert, is facing eviction from the very same government agencies that granted him the land in the first place. Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency Beersheva, Is... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21762/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21762/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT SAUL P. WACHS For many years, it has been my privilege and pleasure to spend summers in Israel. With seven grandchildren close by, access to the family is easy and very satisfying. There is time to study and write, and to visit with the m... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21744/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21744/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Jonah Lowenfeld Los Angeles Jewish Journal (Photo by Peter Biro/International Rescue Committee)Nearly a month after pictures of Pakistanis wading through floodwaters began to appear on the pages of newspapers worldwide, aid from Americans... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21748/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21748/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Getting their just deserts: Temple University students build their identity as part of a 10-day Birthright Israel trip, which Federation helps support. When it comes to dollars designated for the Jewish state, is it more important to f... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21781/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21781/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Good sports all -- but then, what better way to describe the winners of the 2010 JCC Maccabi Games representing Team Philadelphia? From Baltimore to Denver, Philadelphians raced, held court, danced, and did what they do for love on the ten... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21745/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21745/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Sue Fishkoff Jewish Telegraphic Agency San Francisco This Rosh Hashanah, worshippers in Conservative congregations across North America will find themselves using a new machzor. More than 150,000 copies of the High Holidays prayer... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21774/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21774/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT "Jack" of all trade-offs: Al Pacino (left) and director Barry Levinson take the pulse of a scene, abetted (below) by screenwriter Adam Mazer of Philadelphia. "You'll be the death of me," the elderly man whispered. And hoped. D... http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21777/ http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/21777/ Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT