http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en lgeldzahler@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-20T12:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/book_on_israeli_start-ups_bolsters_israels_image/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/book_on_israeli_start-ups_bolsters_israels_image/#When:11:00:45Z When Intel’s Israeli division proposed a new strategy to vastly improve the processing speed of the company’s laptop computer chips, Intel’s U.S. management had no interest. The idea required a fundamental change in Intel’s technological approach, which had been to build what were known as faster “clock speeds”—essentially, faster “engines”—to accelerate processing. Israel’s division proposed to run the… News - Israel 2010-03-20T11:00:45+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/hias_supporting_new_refugee_legislation/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/hias_supporting_new_refugee_legislation/#When:11:00:44Z The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is backing new legislation aimed at protecting refugees and asylum seekers. The Refugee Protection Act was introduced Monday by U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) on the 30th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980. Though the original act provided protection for refugees and asylum seekers, provisions have eroded over… News - National 2010-03-20T11:00:44+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_candidate_favored_for_pm_dutch_poll_shows/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_candidate_favored_for_pm_dutch_poll_shows/#When:11:00:34Z Opinion polls in Holland show that a majority of voters favor the Jewish former mayor of Amsterdam for prime minister. Some 52 percent of those polled last week would vote for Marius Job Cohen as prime minister in national elections scheduled for June, the European Jewish Press reported. Cohen was selected from a list that included current Prime… News - International 2010-03-20T11:00:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/palin_to_obama_hit_reset_button_with_israel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/palin_to_obama_hit_reset_button_with_israel/#When:11:00:26Z Sarah Palin called on the Obama administration to hit the reset button with Israel. In a statement critical of the Obama administration’s outreach to countries with which the United States has strained relations, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor wrote, “In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose… News - National 2010-03-19T11:00:26+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_delegation_meets_vatican_officials_in_rome/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_delegation_meets_vatican_officials_in_rome/#When:11:00:18Z “Delicate issues” including the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II are at the heart of talks in Rome between an international Jewish delegation and senior Vatican officials. The two days of meetings between the International Jewish Committee for Inter-Religious Consultations, a Jewish interfaith umbrella body, and Vatican officials began Tuesday, according to a statement. The… News - International 2010-03-19T11:00:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/warming_trend_netanyahu_clinton_talk_of_u.s.-israel_bond/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/warming_trend_netanyahu_clinton_talk_of_u.s.-israel_bond/#When:11:00:13Z Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has shown that it is committed to peace after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton affirmed the “unshakable bond” between the two countries. “We have an absolute commitment to Israel’s security,” Clinton said Tuesday during a news briefing in a softening of her rhetoric in recent days. “We have a… News - Israel 2010-03-19T11:00:13+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/diskin-troy/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/diskin-troy/#When:19:00:55Z
]]>Trayce Diskin and Fran Troy happily announce the birth of their son, Maxwell Paul, on Jan. 19, 2009. Max’s Hebrew name is Mordechai Peretz in loving memory of his grand- father, Morton Troy, and great-grandfather, Paul Fribush. Proud grandparents are Marilyn Troy of Nyack, N.Y. and Sheldon and Suzanne Diskin of Pikesville, Md. Milestones - Births/Adoptions 2010-03-18T19:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/orthodox_jewish_feminists_speaking_out/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/orthodox_jewish_feminists_speaking_out/#When:19:00:55Z
]]>First in an occasional series on women’s issues in the Orthodox community New York There was a mood at last Sunday’s Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Conference. It was a feeling of confidence, strength and forward-thinking. The feeling was hardly one of woman as victim or second-class citizen. Instead, it was Orthodox woman as leader, as re-inventor, as… News - Local 2010-03-18T19:00:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/why_luxury_passover_vacations_are_in/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/why_luxury_passover_vacations_are_in/#When:19:00:52Z
]]>Some say all Jewish holidays can be summed up in a single sentence: They tried to kill us; we won; let’s eat. Whether that could be the story of Passover is up for debate — many Jews, after all, are less cynical and a lot more meticulous than materialistic in the way they obey biblical commandments. For most,… News - Cover Story 2010-03-18T19:00:52+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/israels_raw_side/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/israels_raw_side/#When:19:00:49Z
]]>The famed and controversial photographer Spencer Tunick is putting a new chill on inter-communal relations in Israel. But that chill could disappear like the emperor’s new clothes if he convinces thousands of people to stay properly attired. Welcome to the newest raging debate in the Jewish state. This one is over where the New York native will… Weird News 2010-03-18T19:00:49+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/baltimore_recalls_dr_arnall_patz/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/baltimore_recalls_dr_arnall_patz/#When:19:00:37Z
]]>Dr. Arnall Patz — whose pioneering work in infant blindness is likely to have saved the eyesight of hundreds of thousands of newborns worldwide since the 1950s — died March 11 in his sleep at his Pikesville home. He was 89. The director emeritus of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins was widely acclaimed as a pivotal… News - Local 2010-03-18T19:00:37+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_gun_advocates_aim_for_bagel_brain_jews/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/jewish_gun_advocates_aim_for_bagel_brain_jews/#When:19:00:31Z
]]>A Wisconsin group of gun rights advocates took what many consider a cheap shot at two Maryland lawmakers recently with a flier that referred to the legislators as “Bagel Brain Jews.” The flier was mailed to homes in Montgomery County and included photographs of Sen. Brian E. Frosh (D-16th) of Montgomery County and Del. Samuel I.… News - Local, News - Home page 2010-03-18T19:00:31+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/whose_right_of_return/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/whose_right_of_return/#When:19:00:24Z “All Israel is bound up one with the other.” — Talmud Shevuot 39a One of Judaism’s most fundamental values is our sense of collective responsibility for each other. Jews in trouble anywhere in the world can call on the help of Jews everywhere in the world. That is why the newly created State of Israel mobilized its… Opinion - Op/Ed 2010-03-18T19:00:24+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/haitis_echo/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/haitis_echo/#When:19:00:24Z The son of an old friend e-mailed me last week for some input on a good topic for a college history term paper on Judaism. At first I was honored. Then, I felt old. I used to teach Tyler Boykin how to ski when he was four; now he wants my help writing college papers? Tyler wanted… Opinion - Publisher's Note 2010-03-18T19:00:24+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/the_fifth_servant_a_novel/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/the_fifth_servant_a_novel/#When:19:00:22Z The streets of 16th-century Prague serve as the perfect cityscape for Kenneth Wishnia’s yarn about young Talmudic scholar Ben- yamin Ben-Akiva, the central character tasked with unraveling a blood libel on the eve of Passover. Europe in 1592 was suffering through pangs of conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants, but… Book Reviews 2010-03-18T19:00:22+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/be_thorough/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/be_thorough/#When:19:00:18Z William Butler Yeats wrote, “Bald heads forgetful of their sins/Old, learned, respectable bald heads …”  These two lines from his 1917 poem “The Scholars” proceed in uncomplimentary tone towards the elderly, especially older scholars. Despite being almost 50 years old at that point, a youthful hubris is projected by Yeats’ word choice. Strong language is common in Yeats’… Torah 2010-03-18T19:00:18+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/levin21/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/levin21/#When:19:00:15Z
]]>Brad and Mindi (nee Pollak) happily announce the birth of their son, Sam Andrew, on July 12, 2009. Sam’s Hebrew name is Faivel Yehudah in loving memory of his maternal great-grandfather, Fred Hess, and paternal great-grandfather, Leon Levin. Happy big brother is Max Ari. Proud grandparents are Marlene and Bill Pollak of Pikesville, Md. and Sheila Levin of… Milestones - Births/Adoptions 2010-03-18T19:00:15+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/hollander_fuld/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/hollander_fuld/#When:19:00:13Z
]]>Linda Hollander and Steven Hollander of Baltimore, Md. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacy Hollander, to Judah Fuld, son of Mimi and Elliot Fuld of Englewood, N.J. Stacy graduated from Goucher College. Judah graduated from The University of Maryland. He is currently attending Fordham University Law School. Stacy is the granddaughter of… Milestones - Weddings/Anniversaries 2010-03-18T19:00:13+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/mishner_katz/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/mishner_katz/#When:19:00:13Z
]]>Ann and Edward Mishner are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Lynne, to David Adam Katz, son of Ronni and Harry Katz of West Orange, N.J. Jennifer graduated from The George Washington University with a bachelor of accountancy degree. She is a certified public accountant and is an audit manager for Deloitte andTouche LLP in… Milestones - Weddings/Anniversaries 2010-03-18T19:00:13+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/super_seders/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/4512.stm/super_seders/#When:19:00:13Z I can’t look at the boxes of matzoh on the supermarket shelves. Or the jars of gefilte fish or boxes of chocolate candy. I just can’t. I’m tired. Whoever thought of the “clean all the chametz out of your kitchen and replace all the kitchen items with special Passover-only stuff” was not a working mom.  Actually, probably… Opinion - Comment 2010-03-18T19:00:13+00:00