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Bread crumb sins? "There are no sins inside the Gates of Eden"
Passover for Peace: At this Seder, we tell the story of the collisions and reconciliations that have intertwined the children of Abraham and Sarah: the Jewish people, with the children of Abraham and Hagar: the Arab peoples. JCN features a new Passover ritual from Arthur Waskow.
The Anonymous Haggadah: A synthesis of the Passover ritual and liturgy with the twelve steps of recovery by Hershy Worch -- another JCN feature.
The Rabbi Eliezer Incident: A bit of 1st century agitprop.
Snappy answers to stupid questions, dept. JCN asks why did God command Jews to eat Matzah on Passover: To make sure we can find crumbs next Pesach
Who knows 140? That's the number of calories in single-machine made matzah, according to a Jerusalem Post's in-depth investigation: Average Israeli gains 3 kilos during Pessah. Other fattening factoids: Israelis will drink 16 million bottles of wine, eat 8,000 tons of matza, and polish off 1,500 tons of fish over Pessah. And remember: "The health funds warn that it's difficult not to gain weight during the festival unless you limit your intake of calories."
Annals of Capitalism: Doctors' Offices Turn Into Salesrooms (NYTimes)
Autonomy, yes! Statehood, no! Thomas Friedman on Kosovo
No Peace! No Justice! might not be Arthur Finkelstein's preferred slogan for Likud '99, but check out Hanegbi agrees to be grilled weekly in the Jerusalem Post and AG tells Hanegbi to cooperate with police in Ha'aretz. (His version: "Police trying to defame me")
Sacrificial notes from all over: CAIRO JOURNAL: When Sheep Are Invited, Much to Their Dismay, New York Times. "Not just any sheep will do. The ritual prescribes that it be a male, at least a year old and in good health, with intact teeth and horns. And so, inevitably, prices soar, and anxiety soars -- something like what happens with roses in the United States around Valentine's Day. 'To our clients, I know it doesn't sound fair, but we don't have a choice,' said Mustafa, who butchered as many as 30 sheep a day all week, for what here is the not inconsiderable sum of $150 for a suitable 100-pound specimen"
Axis Return: Salon on the return of Germany and Japan to military action. "The deployment of German air and ground units abroad this week marks the biggest break yet with the Third Reich's bitter Nazi legacy, positioning a reunified Berlin on the threshold of becoming the inevitable military -- not just financial -- leader of the New Europe. "
Labor Rising? The New York Times: Activism Surges at Campuses Nationwide, and Labor Is at Issue
Appalachian Spring... or Winter? Jewish communities continue to survive in West Virginia "In the 1930s, more than 7,000 Jews lived in West Virginia. Today, just 2,000 remain in a state of 1.8 million - an overwhelmingly Christian, Bible Belt state." Documentary helps filmmaker confront her own stereotypes. "I didn't expect to hear somebody speak Hebrew with a West Virginia accent. It just seems weird," said filmmaker Maryanne Reed, a West Virginia University journalism professor and a Jew.
Appalachian Author: In Christmas 1945, West Virginia writer Niki Maleckar remembers life as a returning Jewish refugee in post-war Berlin. A JCN essay.
Meanwhile, back in Honolulu: They promised to raise their children as Jewish, but will teach their kids about Dad's faith, too. Intermarriage: giving editors a goyish angle to Passover. (Note the lists of seder at the bottom of the page. Chabad's seder is twice as expensive as that of the "Kehilat HaMelech Messianic Congregation." Could it be the kosher food?)
LAPD Jews: Just in time for Passover, group educates officers on Jewish traditions.
Tracking old classmates through the clippings, dept. In college I worked on the student newspaper with Isaac Corre. According to Milwaukee's Business Journal, his mom takes national stage on issues affecting the elderly.
Tracking Nathan Englander: 'Shaygetz' makes name for himself as chronicler of Jewish life
Today's coolest spot on earth: The Ka'ba
Legal education? Students Say Class Too Hard, File Suit
Stickering it to Bibi: Likud trying new slogans
Guliani Time: "New York is taking on the sinister coloration of a police state, and in that environment almost anyone can be taken off the street and thrown into the terrifying confines of "the system." All sense of proportion has been lost." -- Bob Herbert, The New York Times
Talking Torah: The Color of Sacrifice -- JCN channels the women of Sinai. "I listen to you today talking nostalgically about those sacrifices, so I think that maybe a dose of reality, woman-to-woman reality, is what you need."
A sheriff for American Orthodoxy? The Jerusalem Post interviews Michael Broyde, formerly director of the Beit Din of America and Rabbi J.David Bleich on the possibility of a national Beit Din. "Orthodoxy has become like the Wild West. Might makes right, because there's no sheriff around. There's no system of justice," says Broyde. But neither Bleich nor Broyde, the primary advocates of a national American rabbinical court, foresee one emerging in the near future. "Nobody is willing to invest the time and effort in knocking heads together to make it happen," said Bleich.
Book of Book of books: Ha'aretz reviews "Prof. Uriel Simon's beautiful elegy on the Bible in Israel" . "Our mistake, which we are now paying for in alienation and which may be impossible to overcome, is that we have never admitted that the Bible was written in another language....Ben-Gurion and his inane enthusiasm thus sparked the beginning of the Bible's downward slide.....There is practically no literature in Hebrew that presents the Bible as an anthology of texts, some of them spectacular, others less so, but all of them foreign and difficult, and requiring an understanding of their "inner form" in order to establish a dialogue."
Microsoft vs. The World: Will the Melissa virus bring the Internet to its knees on Monday? What were the programmers at Redmond thinking? Oh yes, "Think" was the IBM motto.
Annals of the Jewish Web: The JUF -- Chicago's Jewish Federation -- just bought the word "Jewish" on the Excite search engine. Cute...but I still don't want to move to Chicago.
Jews for Joseph Smith? Holy Land native seeks strong links between Jewish, LDS worlds. Starring self-described Jewish-Mormon-American-Israeli Daniel Rona. Oy!
Aryeh Deri vs. the Fairy Godmother: We may expect our politicians to lie, cheat and steal, but lean on an elderly Holocaust survivor? Lawrence Cohler-Esses itemizes the crime of the one-time Haredi wunderkind in this Jewish Week article.
Music news: Jane's Addiction Frontman Rediscovers His Roots (The Forward)
Torah notes: Class Explores Biblical Erotica (The Forward). Hi, Amichai!
Fictional Jews: Salon reviews Nathan Englander's For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, saying it recalls "the best of John Cheever" in its accounts of Orthodox and Hasidic life. Have you read it?
Is this JTA story necessary? Dept. Best-selling Jewish writer suing makers of 'Shakespeare in Love'. Best line: (Plaintiff Faye) Kellerman and her mystery-writer husband, Jonathan, are both Orthodox Jews and committed Zionists.
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