Judaism

PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has posthumously honored Varian Fry, an American journalist responsible for aiding thousands of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, with the ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award The award was presented posthumously to Fry on February 8 during the League’s National Executive Committee Meeting in

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)–As the Jewish community on the West Coast grows ever stronger, the Reform Movement is expanding its focus on youth engagement there through large-scale youth programming and increased funding for URJ Camps and URJ Campaign for Youth Engagement initiatives. Nearly 900 Reform Jewish teens and more than 125 professionals and lay leaders

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –Pope John Paul II was the rock star; Pope Benedict XVI has been the rock. Hardly without flaws (as neither Moses nor King David were scarcely impeccable), the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger did the grunt work of the papacy after his predecessor’s warm and charming period of outreach and

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In preparing this week’s D’var Torah I came upon a Chassidic story whose conclusion puzzled me: Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa used to ask: “What is the difference between a ‘lover of truth’ and a ‘hater of lies?’” A “hater of lies” hates everyone, because there no one

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I have to thank my dear parents, may they rest in peace, for many things. I must especially thank them for having chosen to provide me with a yeshiva day school education. This was not an obvious choice back in the 1940’s, for few parents chose the day school