Yom Kippur News

July 08, 2009 Getting Married on Shivah Asar BeTammuz By Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik Fast days, with the exception of Yom Kippur and Tisha Ba Av, begin in the morning.

I hadn't mentioned the case sooner because I really have nothing insightful or thought provoking to add, but the fallout from a recent TABC/police raid in Fort Worth of a gay bar on the anniversary of New York's Stonewall riot has begun to snowball, receiving a lot of national press attention.

Published July 01, 2009, issue of July 10, 2009 . A tough room, lousy sound and half a band.

Students at the Islamic Al Noor School in Brooklyn. City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday calling for public schools to be closed on the two holiest Muslim holidays.

Spurred by a broad coalition of religious, labor and immigrant groups, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Tuesday to add two of the most important Muslim holy days to the public schools' holiday calendar.

"Sing me your favorite melody, David," Michael Jackson said to me. I was sitting alone with Michael in one of the many living rooms at his Neverland ranch in the summer of 2000, and we were talking about melodies.

Martin Indyk seems to be a happy camper these days - or at least what one could call "cautiously optimistic." This is not merely because his recently released book, Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East , just came out in Hebrew, in time for Hebrew Book Week.

A delegation of 19 Fellows participating in the Write On for Israel program are midway through a visit to Israel that focuses on preparing them to advocate for Israel when they get to college and beyond.

A teacher at a progressive suburban synagogue in the United States was discussing intermarriage with her ninth-grade class.

Annette Miller stars as Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony" at Shakespeare & Company.

June 17, 2009 Local Man Part of Yom Kippur Renewal of Greek Shul By Phyllis Braun In the fall of 2000, on the Greek island of Crete, Tucson businessman Joseph Honick and his wife, Deirdre, toured an ancient synagogue in the early stages of rebirth.

Since the first stirrings of the Arab-Israeli peace process after the Yom Kippur war, America's relations with Israel have been characterized by a paradox.

Since the first stirrings of the Arab-Israeli peace process after the Yom Kippur war, America's relations with Israel have been characterized by a paradox.

DR EPHRAIM Katzir, Israel's fourth president and one of his nation's pre-eminent scientists, has died at his home on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

The numbers zero and 6 million mean more to Aaron Elster than they do to most people.

Ephraim Katzir, Israel's fourth president and an internationally recognized biophysicist died Saturday at his home in Rehovot, several weeks after his 93rd birthday.

Members of the Region 16 Board of Education heard from the public Wednesday night about adding two Muslim holidays to the school calendar.

Earlier this week, Shlomo Katz and I joined together in an evening of song and inspiration in Ramat Bet Shemesh.

Shavuot, the biblical Festival of Weeks, arrives on May 29 this year, with a special urgency.

It's possible that a sorcerer with a particularly black sense of humor has put a curse on every Israeli prime minister since David Ben-Gurion: They are all fated, sooner or later, to confront head-on precisely their worst nightmares.