http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en plevin@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2009 2009-01-08T18:30:03-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/casting_a_wide_jewish_net/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/casting_a_wide_jewish_net/#When:04:00:38Z Item: Gaza was embroiled in fighting. Item: Jews had won more than 300 Olympic medals by the 1990s. Item: One of the better-known bullfighters of the 20th century was a Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Jew named Sidney Franklin. Item: The state of North Dakota has two Reform congregations. So said (as of publication date) JudaismWiki.com, a free,… SourceBook 2009-01-02T04:00:38-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/good_gelt/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/good_gelt/#When:04:00:00Z My family didn’t do Chanukah presents. Each year, as winter barraged us in Brooklyn, N.Y.—mean, wet sleet, mounds of blackened snow—Chanukah snuck in, to warm our homes. Twenty-five years ago, the American holiday marketing blitz had hardly begun. There were still quiet moments between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the Jewish and non-Jewish holidays were not yet inextricably… SourceBook 2008-12-26T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/best_books_for_kids/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/best_books_for_kids/#When:04:00:00Z There was a time that American Jews could assume that all American Jews were alike—Ashkenazi, in-married, synagogue-affiliated and unfailingly dedicated to Israel. Times have changed and Jewish children’s literature has responded with a series of new books that celebrate our diversity while encouraging a deep connection to Judaism and Israel. ”Hanukkah Moon” In “Hanukkah Moon” by Deborah… SourceBook 2008-12-19T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/crak_ing_stereotypes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/crak_ing_stereotypes/#When:04:00:01Z Elaine Sandberg fits the mold of what you would expect to encounter when you consider someone who plays American mah-jongg. She’s Jewish and just past retirement age. But the 70-something Los Angeles mah-jongg instructor, who has taught the game for Holland American Cruise Lines and recently at American Jewish University, is hoping to help mah-jongg crack age… SourceBook 2008-12-12T04:00:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/asking_dear_abby/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/asking_dear_abby/#When:04:00:00Z The Dear Abby column is written by Jeanne Phillips, who is Jewish, and was started by her mother, Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips. It is reportedly the most popular and widely syndicated column in the world. J. reporter Stacey Palevsky spoke to “Abby” by phone from the columnist’s Los Angeles office. If you were a journalist, what question would… SourceBook 2008-12-05T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/the_jewish_singles_scene/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/the_jewish_singles_scene/#When:04:00:00Z Is JCorps mainly a group where singles get a chance to meet and mingle, or an opportunity to volunteer and do good work? Actually, the answer is both. Montreal is the second city outside of New York City to become officially affiliated with JCorps. Begun in 2007, it is already being touted as the “largest Jewish volunteer… SourceBook 2008-11-28T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/energy_options/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/energy_options/#When:04:00:00Z At a lab in Rehovot, the man who developed the Arrow missile is consumed with his next mission: making Israel energy independent by using cheap solar power. “The issue of energy is the greatest danger to Israel because in 30 years there will be no energy means, no oil and no gas, and the use of coal… SourceBook 2008-11-21T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/religious_school_dropout/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/religious_school_dropout/#When:04:00:00Z Nearly three out of four Jewish children locally quit religious school after they have their bar or bat mitzvah. In an effort to flip that statistic upside down, the Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) is launching a communitywide initiative to improve Bay Area synagogue schools. It’s called NESS (Nurturing Excellence in Synagogue Schools), an acronym that intentionally means… SourceBook 2008-11-14T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/cooking_kosher/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/cooking_kosher/#When:04:00:00Z Food shows are one of my addictions—Jacques Peppin’s “Fast Food-My Way” and “America’s Test Kitchen,” both PBS staples, and, of course, the Food Network’s “Emeril Live” and “Rachel Ray’s 30-Minute Meals.” But I can’t help cringing when Emeril yells that “pork fat rules,” and I have been known to yell ”kashrut” at the TV when Rachel adds… SourceBook 2008-11-07T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/connecting_children/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/connecting_children/#When:04:00:00Z When Zachary Miller of Princeton, N.J., went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., for the first time in 2007, he was preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah and looking for a chesed project. Similarly, Lindsay Barbash, who lives in Middleton, Mass., was searching for a mitzvah project for her bat mitzvah celebration. Both youngsters… SourceBook 2008-10-31T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/eagles_nest/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/eagles_nest/#When:04:00:00Z While other National Football League executives may spend time schmoozing with clients and working to develop business relationships during a home game, Philadelphia Eagles president and chief operating officer Joe Banner prefers to watch in limited company, free to analyze his team without distractions. “I have a little, mini-suite for myself, and one or two top execs—and nobody… SourceBook 2008-10-24T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/waiting_for_baby/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/waiting_for_baby/#When:04:00:00Z Peggy Orenstein was 41, pregnant and on an international flight to Tokyo, hopeful that she and her husband would soon be adopting a newborn boy. One baby, two babies, no baby? she thought. She had already felt the crushing pain of losing a pregnancy. Nothing was certain. As the plane approached Osaka, the Berkeley-based author and journalist… SourceBook 2008-10-17T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/a_jewish_journey/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/a_jewish_journey/#When:04:00:00Z Michael Lynton’s quick rise to become chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment—at 47 he’s already led divisions at Disney, Penguin/Putnam books and AOL—has subjected him to countless interviews about the performance of his companies. But one topic Mr. Lynton has never liked to discuss is himself. He doesn’t speak publicly about his wife and three children,… SourceBook 2008-10-10T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/grape_expectations/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/grape_expectations/#When:04:00:00Z There’s something unique about winemakers slipping into synagogue for High Holy Days. The holidays mean fall has arrived, and in Napa Valley, that means harvest time. The grapes are at their peak and must be picked and crushed to begin the winemaking process. “It’s hard to sit in shul during harvest,” said Ernie Weir, owner of the Hagafen… SourceBook 2008-10-03T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/cooking_with_kids/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/cooking_with_kids/#When:04:00:00Z It’s all about the food processor. As long as it involves a whirring blade or a spinning disc that will pulverize anything that has the misfortune to meet it, my 11-year-old son is there. Yair recently graduated my Cuisinart tutorial, replete with graphic descriptions of what might happen if he managed to override the safety mechanisms meant to… SourceBook 2008-09-26T04:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/quirky_calendar/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/quirky_calendar/#When:15:53:00Z Tis the season for new calendars. Yet for the founder of the merchandising Web site, www.Judaism.com, the Judaic calendar is far more than something to be grabbed nonchalantly off a table outside High Holiday services, then tacked to the wall, only to be looked at sporadically throughout the year. The Jewish calendar—with all its quirks, including the “leap”… SourceBook 2008-09-16T15:53:00-05:00