Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: September 2008
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29 September 2008
Happy New Year - Shana Tova
We want to wish all of you, our readers, writers, family and friends, the best possible for the forthcoming new year. May all your wishes, dreams and hopes come true and may you only know blessings, happiness, growth and nachas.
Thank you for being a part of our family this past year, we look forward [...]
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29 September 2008
Jewish Living Magazine Suspends Publication
I just got an email from the editors of Jewish Living Magazine who are, as of today, suspending publication after five issues. Here is the letter I received:
Dear subscribers, colleagues and friends of Jewish Living,
After an extremely successful launch and five well-received issues Jewish Living will suspend
publication as of today.
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28 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure IX
I am going to institute an Israel idiosyncrasy -Ism (the triple “I”) to my column because.. well why not?
Banks charge you for taking out your own money. … I know!! They charge you when you want you to use your credit card. They charge you when you want to open other savings account. I’m not [...]
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24 September 2008
The Jewneric Leadership Series: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Jewneric recently had the opportunity to speak with Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who currently dedicates his time and energies to The International Fellowship for Christians and Jews (IFCJ) – Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Partnership for Children in the Former Soviet Union, committed to ensuring the well-being of tens of thousands of Jewish children in that [...]
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23 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure viii
An Arab terrorist decided to drive his car into a group of soldiers tonight. I had been close to that location earlier tonight. Although, I probably wouldn’t have been at the specific spot; I can’t help but think what would have happened if I was.
Why can’t they stop? I feel such a deep sadness for [...]
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17 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure vii
“Welcome to Israel.”
No, I’m not being redundant. This is what I hear every day, many times a day. The thing is, people aren’t saying it in a friendly, warm way, but rather in a sarcastic, cynical way. For example, if your apartment has bugs in it –”Welcome to Israel.” If workers do a shoddy job [...]
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16 September 2008
Agriprocessors: Why my family has stopped buying red meat
My wife and I have recently made the decision that, at least for the time being, we will no longer buy any Kosher butchered red meat (although we will probably continue to eat red meat out of our house and buy pre-prepared fleishig foods). I am writing this article to explain our decision, to (a) [...]
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14 September 2008
Davening on airplanes
I haven’t posted in a while, perhaps because I haven’t felt particularly passionate about anything. Here’s something I am passionate about, having dealt with it recently on a plane back from Israel:
We all know the feeling. You’re sitting on an El AL plane to Israel, the seat belt sign is on, it’s some ungodly hour [...]
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11 September 2008
Dessert at the Beginning of the Meal
While usually quite verbose, I find myself at a loss for words. How can one describe immensely personal feelings in an extremely public setting? For every word below, there are thousands more that I am choosing not to write.
Ten years ago, there was a plane crash on Sept. 7, 1998. The 10th Jewish Yahrtzeit [...]
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11 September 2008
An Olah Without A Parachute: My Aliyah Adventure vi
I’m heeere!
After all the waiting, all the emotion, and taking care of all the specifics, I have arrived. The Nefesh B’Nefesh flight went smoothly and all the olim were treated like rock stars. How? (you are probably wondering.) Well, tons of photographers and a half dozen videographers were recording our descent from the plane. Then [...]
