Jewish Chat: Title: RELIGION & ETHICS
IN BRIEF
Numerous religious groups using Internet to spread the word From Web pages for local congregations to online scripture studies, religion continues to find new ways to travel on the Internet's superhighway. Among the latest forays: A church in La Jolla has partnered with MP3.com to post audio recordings of sermons, and a Jewish group has unveiled a chat room where users can talk with rabbis and other representatives one-on-one.The Jewish chat room (http://www.AskMoses.com) is...
Jewish Chat: SPENDING AN AFTERNOON WITH THE 'QUEEN OF JEWISH SOUL'
MY FRIEND had suggested that we attend a concert put on by a mutual friend, with some woman from Germany. That was all I knew.What happened was amazing and astonishing -and fun. We were greeted by Irith Gabriely as we came into the hall of this retirement home where our host, Herb Gaynes, lived. She was dark, tall and handsome in an intense way. And she was charming in her friendliness. We were their audience, my friend and I, several other people who belonged to our organization, and...
Jewish Chat: SPENDING AN AFTERNOON WITH THE 'QUEEN OF JEWISH SOUL'
MY FRIEND had suggested that we attend a concert put on by a mutual friend, with some woman from Germany. That was all I knew.What happened was amazing and astonishing -and fun. We were greeted by Irith Gabriely as we came into the hall of this retirement home where our host, Herb Gaynes, lived. She was dark, tall and handsome in an intense way. And she was charming in her friendliness. We were their audience, my friend and I, several other people who belonged to our organization, and...
Jewish Chat: VICKI LESSER, JEWISH EDUCATOR WHO OWNED STATIONERY STORE
Vicki Drucker Lesser, a businesswoman, a poet with perfect handwriting, and an educator and principal in the Jewish community, will be buried today in North Miami Beach.Mrs. Lesser died on Tuesday, three weeks after lapsing into coma after minor surgery, her husband said. She was 44. Mrs. Lesser was known to many Miami Dolphins and Florida Marlins players and residents of the Weston area for her customized poems, invitations and birth announcements. She owned and managed R.S.V.P. Initially...
Jewish Chat: Jewish Militia: Fact or Ficton?
In Paris on Sept. 28, two-dozen men armed with clubs and wearing motorcycle helmets stormed the Pays de Cocagne bookshop on the Rue Vieille du Temple to the cries of Israël vaincra! (Israel will be victorious.) Six people were slightly injured. The men disrupted the book-signing event of Alain Soral, the self-proclaimed agitator, anti-feminist, anti-gay, pro-Palestinian philosopher and boxer. The men broke windows, knocked over bookshelves and sent fans of the writer running out the back door...