Where What When - Baltimore's Jewish Magazine
April 2007 Issue Table of Contents When I was in undergraduate school, I hadn’t yet made the connection between diet and health. (I had grown up with typical American foods and consumed my share of sugar. In fact, as a child I loved to scoop those icing flowers off fancy cakes.) Besides, being a full time student with a part-time job proved to be a heavy load for me; I had little time to prepare nutritious meals. ............Read More Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations and current president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, is an articulate spokesman for Israel. He recently wrote a book, The Fight for Jerusalem. ............Read More So why is there a question mark on a title? you may ask. A good question, and hopefully as this maiseh (story) unfolds, it will become “crystal clear” – or at least chicken soup clear. ............Read More By I. Kinek Should We Be Worried About Global Warming? Facts, Theories, Politics And What Should We Do About It? Beyond PoliticsMost of you have heard or read about global warming; it’s been all over the media lately. But you are probably confused about whether it is really occurring and poses a danger to us or whether it is merely another form of extreme environmentalism of the kind favored by those who throw paint on people wearing fur coats. ............Read More I have just found your website.... To the Editor, I have just found your website after receiving the most recent issue of the WWW. It is a great site, especially with the archiving of the articles! I will bookmark this for future reference. Yasher koach! Norris L. Horwitz ............Read More Becoming Part of the Yeshiva World We left Rabbi Oberstein last month as a talmid in Ner Israel, where he was awed by the greatness of the Rosh Hayeshiva and rebbeim. The first time I ever heard of the concept of a gadol was from my friend Meir Fialkoff at Yeshiva University High School, in my first year there. ............Read More In all generations they stand up to annihilate us, but He rescues us from their hand.” (Passover Haggada) A blood libel is back in the news – though not a current one, fortunately. According to a new book by Israeli college professor Ariel Toaff, it seems the Jews really did it! Bloody Passovers: the Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders (published in Italy) presents “proof” that a ritual murder accusation in 1475 Italy might indeed have been true. ............Read More By Eli Pollock With the corruption in Israeli politics the Israeli press has recently begun to look back nostalgically at a prime minister whom they once reviled as being a fascist. Everyone in Israel knows that Menachem Begin was enormously honest, and that “he and his wife Aliza raised three children in a tiny two-room apartment on 1 Rosenbaum Street in Tel Aviv.” ............Read More Pesach is upon us, and we are all busy cleaning and preparing for the holiday. Why not take a moment or two to look over these recipes with the hope that they will assist you in your menu planning. (For those of us who plan menus at the last minute, I say, what does it matter when you plan, as long as there is a menu in time to sit down to the Seder. G-d willing, we will all enjoy a wonderful Seder. Chag kasher vesameach. ............Read More If anyone in the Cracow ghetto stood a chance of surviving the Holocaust, it was Avraham Shapiro.* At 22 years old, he was a smart and resourceful young man whose mind had been honed during years of yeshiva study. ............Read More Copyright © Where What When |
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