“Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and
Finding Joy”
by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (Knopf, 2017)
Many of us like to take some extra time during the summer with a good book (or Kindle) in our hands, and hopefully summertime can be a chance to grow Jewishly as well.
“The Weight of Ink,”
by Rachel Kadish,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 hardcover, June 6, 2017
Riveting narrative, well-honed characters, emotionally rewarding novel, rich detail, suspenseful.
Not too long ago, I stood at the Tiergarten public park in the center of Berlin, Germany. That’s just a short distance away from the former location of a villa where more than 60 Nazi bureaucrats worked in secret to organize the mass murder of millions. But there I was surrounded by 1,100 people celebrating an authentic Jewish wedding.
Theodore Herzl founded modern Zionism for a single purpose: to normalize Jewish existence among the nations and thereby end anti-Semitism.
My esteemed colleague, Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff, wrote an articulate and thoughtful column about his anger toward the Israeli government concerning the issues of religious pluralism in Israel.
More than any other vote since President Trump’s inauguration, the vote on repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will determine the character and future of our nation.
Brouhaha over Israeli policies overblown
Tempest in a teapot! Mountain out of a molehill!
Recent developments in Israel policy have been troubling. The suspension of the Cabinet resolution to support “one Wall for one people” and the new conversion bill that was approved by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation that changes the status quo of conversion for Israel are disconcerting and saddening for many Diaspora Jews. It creates a rift between our people that can have devastating consequences.
