Issue 46

Friday, November 14, 2008

Local News

Intro meeting to take place Dec. 4

Interested in adding rhythm to your Jewish life? Looking for a spiritual lift through music?

JFS Lunch and Learn set

Professor Emeritus Martin Bidney will perform at the upcoming Jewish Family Service Lunch and Learn program on Wednesday, December 3, at 12 pm at the JCC.

Marvin Bell is Kessler Distinguished Reader at BU

Milton Kessler was a poet of international acclaim, a professor of English in Harpur College for 35 years and the founder of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University

More than 100 attend Piaker Memorial lecture “Reliving Munich: A Survivor’s Tale”

Dan Alon, a survivor of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack, spoke on October 30 to a crowd of more than 100 people at the 13th annual Pauline and Philip Piaker Memorial Lecture, the first to be held in Chabad House’s new facility.

Israel News

Israeli circumcision experience helps fights AIDS in Africa

TEL AVIV (JTA) – In a clinic in the hills of Swaziland’s capital, Israeli doctors have been training their counterparts in male circumcision, hoping expertise in the ancient technique will help in the battle against the modern scourge of AIDS.

National News

Economic crisis at top of congressional agenda

WASHINGTON (JTA) – The economic crisis that dominated the last couple months of the presidential campaign will be the major focus of Congress next year as well, say Jewish political insiders.

Obama faces global disarray, Middle East challenges

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Barack Obama emerges from a maelstrom into a vacuum.

Features

Book Review: What do Jewish men want?

What do Jewish men want? While Freud never posed this question, it’s one that’s been under discussion recently in many magazine and newspaper articles.

Philanthropy from Venus

NEW YORK (JTA) – Women give charity differently than men: They are a little more generous across the board and a little less egocentric in their giving.

Opinion

Mideast peace talks: the maximum is less than the minimum required

Here is the problem with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute: as one former Israeli official recently put it, the maximum the Israelis can offer in terms of concessions...