http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en lgeldzahler@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-14T13:00:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/new_documentary_taps_the_legacy_of_a_nazi_filmmaker/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/new_documentary_taps_the_legacy_of_a_nazi_filmmaker/#When:12:00:41Z In 1939, Joseph Goebbels commissioned his favorite film director, Veit Harlan, to make an entertainment suitable for wartime. The result was “Jew Süss,” a historical drama about the Jewish banker Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, who was hanged in 1738 on charges of treason against a German duchy. The choice of subject matter was a retort to a British anti-Nazi… News - International 2010-03-14T12:00:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/u.s._anti-semitism_envoy_wants_to_recruit_non-jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/u.s._anti-semitism_envoy_wants_to_recruit_non-jews/#When:12:00:33Z President Obama’s special envoy on anti-Semitism wants to recruit non-Jews to make her case. Hannah Rosenthal outlined her goals in her new role during a recent address in Dallas to the annual plenum of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the public policy umbrella she once led as president. To combat anti-Semitism, the Jewish people need more non-Jews… News - National 2010-03-14T12:00:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/helping_jewish_julietsdump_their_arab_romeos/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/helping_jewish_julietsdump_their_arab_romeos/#When:12:00:00Z The Tel Aviv municipality has launched a program to help Jewish girls get out of relationships with Arab boys, Ma’ariv reported. The municipal finance committee allocated about $66,000 to “an aid program for immigrant girls at risk” run by the Tel Aviv Municipality, the Absorption Ministry and the World Congress of Bukharan Jews, according to an article in… News - Israel 2010-03-14T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/germany_boosts_funding_to_holocaust_survivors/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/germany_boosts_funding_to_holocaust_survivors/#When:12:00:20Z Germany will nearly double its funding for home health care to aging Holocaust survivors. Annual negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German Ministry of Finance concluded Wednesday with the announcement that Germany will provide some $77 million toward home care and social services this year, up from about $40 million in 2009. The agreement is “a major… News - International 2010-03-13T12:00:20+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/aipac_calls_to_block_u.s._companies_supporting_iran/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/aipac_calls_to_block_u.s._companies_supporting_iran/#When:12:00:14Z The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is calling on the U.S. Congress to take several immediate steps in response to a New York Times report revealing that the federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in grants, contracts and other benefits to foreign and multinational U.S. companies conducting business in Iran. In a rare move, the pro-Israel… News - National 2010-03-13T12:00:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/tel_aviv_skyline_set_to_change/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/tel_aviv_skyline_set_to_change/#When:12:00:04Z Some Tel Aviv residents are angry that they were not consulted over plans to double the city’s housing capacity by eschewing city blocks lined with low-rise apartment buildings for high-rise blocks. The city last week released a plan, dubbed “T.A./5000,” which recommends lining Tel Aviv’s main streets with apartment buildings up to 14 stories in place of the… News - Israel 2010-03-13T12:00:04+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/communications_activist_silenced_in_cuban_jail_cell/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/communications_activist_silenced_in_cuban_jail_cell/#When:12:00:30Z Alan Gross has been about communications all his life: The call-mom-everyday son, the family newsbreaker, the message guy for Jewish groups, the get-out-the-vote enthusiast for candidate Barack Obama, the technology contractor who helped the U.S. government bring the world’s remotest populations into the 21st century. Now, however, Gross, 60, of Potomac, Md., has been languishing for three months… News - National 2010-03-12T12:00:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/hungarian_president_signs_holocaust_denial_law/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/hungarian_president_signs_holocaust_denial_law/#When:12:00:27Z Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom signed into law legislative reforms making Holocaust denial a criminal offense. The law adopted Wednesday makes Holocaust denial an offense punishable by imprisonment of up to three years.   It brings Hungary in line with other European countries under Nazi occupation during the World War II in which Holocaust denial already is a criminal… News - International 2010-03-12T12:00:27+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/israel_apologizes_as_biden_meets_palestinians/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/israel_apologizes_as_biden_meets_palestinians/#When:12:00:00Z As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden again denounced the plan for new Israeli construction in eastern Jerusalem after meeting with Palestinian leaders, Israel’s interior minister apologized for the timing of the plan’s approval. Eli Yishai apologized Wednesday during an interview on Israel Radio “for the distress this matter caused.” He was referring to the announcement Tuesday by… News - Israel 2010-03-12T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/march_12/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/march_12/#When:20:00:28Z St. Pat’s Day: Sylvia Greenberg’s Irish Jewish Tales Beth Israel’s Battle Of Bands Vivian Adelberg Rudow’s Cuba Debut Mark Davison’s Haiti Relief Concert Jules Morstein: A Real Jewel Sisterly Love From Hannah Bress Brian Brown Finds Holocaust Survivor Cousin Salam Fayyad: Palestinian Ben-Gurion? Editorial: Hollywood’s Jews Books: Jephte’s Daughter Anew   Exclusively in Print 2010-03-11T20:00:28+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/jewish_museum_hits_50/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/jewish_museum_hits_50/#When:19:00:57Z
]]>It’s called “The Synagogue Speaks.” To commemorate its 50th anniversary, the Jewish Museum of Maryland will open a multi-media exhibition in its newly-restored Lloyd Street Synagogue. Tours of the exhibition will be held Sunday, March 21, from noon to 4 p.m. at the synagogue, 11 Lloyd Street. A reception will be held next door in the lobby of… News - Local 2010-03-11T19:00:57+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/solomon_parsons/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/solomon_parsons/#When:19:00:57Z
]]>Marlene (nee Wolff) and Bruce J. Solomon of Owings Mills, Md. are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Allison Lynn Solomon, to David Robert Parsons, son of Jayne and George Parsons of Asbury, N.J. Allie graduated from Frostburg State University with a bachelor of science degree in business administration and Villa Julie College, now Stevenson University,… Milestones - Engagements 2010-03-11T19:00:57+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/youlus_torahs_valid_investigation_declares/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/youlus_torahs_valid_investigation_declares/#When:19:00:52Z
]]>An independent investigation by a pair of soferim, or scribes, commissioned by the Save A Torah organization found that eight out of 11 scrolls restored and sold by Rabbi Menachem Youlus are “suitable for ritual use in the synagogue,” according to a statement and report issued by Rick Zitelman, president of Save A Torah. The investigation was in… News - Cover Story 2010-03-11T19:00:52+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/welcome_comfort/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/welcome_comfort/#When:19:00:51Z Regarding Phil Jacobs’ March 5 Editor’s Notebook “Medical Marijuana,” I have to respond with real empathy regarding his view of his mother’s feelings as she became increasingly disabled and (unfortunately, also) in pain as a result of her MS. It doesn’t matter what the etiology, we who face the decline of our health, strength and the resultant lack… Letters to Editor 2010-03-11T19:00:51+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/eye_on_farrakhan/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/eye_on_farrakhan/#When:19:00:49Z Should Rev. Louis Farrakhan’s remarks, lies, accusations and insinuations continue to be reported, as asked by Neil Rubin in his March 5 blog “Farrakhan’s Back” on jewish times.com ? I think most definitely, on many levels, for many reasons, ranging from “Know Thine Enemy,” to being able to debunk and disprove the outrageous statements, and to be able… Letters to Editor 2010-03-11T19:00:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/simon_meister/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/simon_meister/#When:19:00:45Z
]]>Leslie Simon and Glenn Meister are pleased to announce the celebration of their marriage, which took place on Dec. 26, 2009 at Linwood’s, officiated by Cantor Melvin Luterman. Glenn is the son of the late Solomon Meister and Leslie is the daughter of the late Bess and Noel Baverman. Lisa Smelkinson, sister of the bride, escorted Leslie to… Milestones - Weddings/Anniversaries 2010-03-11T19:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/mann_saval/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/mann_saval/#When:19:00:43Z
]]>Ellen and Paul Saval of Owings Mills, Md. and GayLynn and Jon Mann of Bethesda, Md. are happy to announce the engagement of their children, Neil and Nicole. Nicole and Neil attended the University of Maryland.  Nicole is a manager with Nordstrom. Neil is a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Nicole is the granddaughter of the late… Milestones - Engagements 2010-03-11T19:00:43+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/festivals_of_learning/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/festivals_of_learning/#When:19:00:41Z The Limmud conference — the rage in Jewish education circles — is a marvelous affair. I first attended the original, British version of this unique learning jamboree in 1995, wondering if it could be franchised, like coffee shops and synagogues, as a way of bolstering Jewish identity. The British Limmud was quirky and hectic, with a feeling… Opinion - Op/Ed 2010-03-11T19:00:41+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/jephtes_daughter/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/jephtes_daughter/#When:19:00:35Z Wow! That is the first reaction to Naomi Ragen’s recent re-release (with some new material) of her first novel, “Jephte’s Daughter.”  The novel, a full 443 pages, is bursting with drama, suspense, romance and religion. The novel centers around stunning, young   Batsheva Ha-Levi, the only daughter of an affluent… Book Reviews 2010-03-11T19:00:35+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/great_outdoors/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/book_reviews/far_from_zion_in_search_of_a_global_jewish_community/great_outdoors/#When:19:00:34Z We were thrilled going through the February 12 “Camps 2” special section and looking at all of the camping opportunities available to our children. Last year, our son, Joe, attended Jewish overnight camp for the first time thanks to a $1,000 Campership Incentive Grant received from the Associated: Jewish Community   Federation of Baltimore and the… Letters to Editor 2010-03-11T19:00:34+00:00