August 8, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

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Studying Pirke Avot, a most beautiful custom

By Rabbi Martin J. Applebaum Young Israel of Margate
The summer months are upon us, and I want to call attention to a most beautiful custom practiced during this time. More...

A View of the Absurd

Kafka's Tips on Writing
JACK ENGELHARD Special to the Jewish Times

I've always disagreed with Hemingway on his notion that newspaper reporting "blunts the instrument" for writing good and true fiction. My favorite novels open with a bang, like the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. More...

Israel Viewpoint

Obama's boundaries
STEPHEN KRAMER Jewish Times Israel Correspondent

Many people, including Israelis and Diaspora Jews, have misconceptions about land beyond the 1949 Armistice Line. This demarcation, also known as the Green Line or the "1967 border," is not a permanent border between Israelis and Palestinians. More...

Dimensions

The electrical wiring scandal!
JOYCE S. ANDERSON Special to the Jewish Times

The subject, electrical wiring, may sound too mundane to generate a scandal. This is not about sex as in the sad saga of Larry Craig. There is no prospect of the scandal bringing down the government as witnessed in Watergate. More...

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Honorable 'Menschen'

By Howard Berger ... and YOU.

ESCAPING FROM VIENNA IN 1940 WASN'T EASY SAYS SHOAH SURVIVOR REGINA SPIVACK In 1940, Vienna, Austria was crawling with Nazis wearing their hated swastika armbands and the ever present Gestapo agents with a mission to round up Jews. More...

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