April 23, 2008 / Columns

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Check your source: Spreading lies won't help the Jews

Mark Twain said that it is easier for a lie to work its way around the world before the truth can put its pants on. And that was 80-100 years before the Internet. Now it's even faster. More...

LIBRARIANS' ROUNDTABLE

Jewish writers well-represented in mystery genre

Who doesn't love a mystery? Police procedurals, historical whodunits, hardboiled detective stories, cozies, female sleuths…the subgenres of mysteries seem endless. And Jewish authors are wellrepresented in all of these. More...

COMPUSCHMOOZE

Voice leaps into the future with new website
STEVEN LUBETKIN

The most exciting development in the Jewish web world this month is happening right here at the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. We've launched a newly redesigned website, with a new web address - www.jewishvoicesnj.org. More...

Nahal Oz: New blood, old battleground

NECHEMIA MEYERS

REHOVOT- The blood of young Israelis continues to be spilled at Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip where two truck drivers were murdered recently. More...

JERUSALEM JOURNAL

Dollar devaluation drives Israeli independence
CHARLIE KALECH

During my first trip to Israel in 1983, the director of our program stood at the front of the bus and said, "I don't know if you've heard the news, but overnight you've all become rich and we've all become poor." It was the first time I had heard t More...

COOKING

The rebbetzin's recipes: Looking forward to Lag B'Omer
DEBI EPSTEIN

Lag B'Omer marks the 33rd day of Sefirat HaOmer (the counting of the Omer period), which begins on the second night of Passover. During this time, the 24,000 students of the great sage Rabbi Akiva passed away. More...

SALLY'S WORLD

Working out builds both body & mind
SALLY FRIEDMAN

OK, I've made it through six months as the member of a gym. And I'm watching with a tiny bit if smugness the Jennycome latelies who arrived just after the dawning of the New Year, while I signed on before the resolutions rush. More...

MONEY MATTERS

Going green for Passover
JEFF KLEIN Executive Director Jewish Community Foundation

This past week the headlines again screamed about our environment and how we may even be poisoning our own bodies. More...