August 12, 2009 / Columns

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Star of 'Blossom' reflects on how belief changed look

LOS ANGELES (TABLET)—Earlier this year, producers from the TLC makeover show "What Not to Wear" chose me to "fix." It was eight months after I had given birth to my second son (my first was three years old), and I had just completed a doctora More...

Democracy means listening to unpopular voices

By LARRY GARBER JTA

WASHINGTON—"They hate him who reproves them in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly." So said the prophet Amos 2,800 years ago, and so it is today. Amos' message did not make him popular with the powers that be. More...

JCF is there for synagogues & organizations building endowments

MONEY MATTERS
JEFF KLEIN Executive Director Community Foundation

Is the roof leaking at your synagogue? Is there a special program that is rumored to be cut because the funding just isn't there this year? Is your organization facing a downturn in membership, while expenses remain the same or even increase? More...

The rebbitzin's recipes: Wake up for the month of Elul!

COOKING
DEBI EPSTEIN

The Jewish lunar month of Elul will arrive on Thursday evening, Aug. 20. We are given a month of introspection during this time for us to WAKE UP and for the Jewish New Year, 5770. More...

Proposed civil marriage bill in Israel misses mark

By GILAD KARIV JTA

JERUSALEM—The promoters of Israel's new bill for civil marriage for those without religion are hurrying to present it as a significant and historical legal breakthrough, but actually it's nothing other than political trickery. More...

What role for NIF?

New Israel Fund should not give to anti-Israel groups
By DAN KOSKY JTA

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The gown goes into storage, the tiara comes off, but love remains

SALLY'S WORLD
SALLY FRIEDMAN

It's been a strangely lovely space of time, enclosed by a wedding at one end, and a 50th anniversary at the other. A metaphor, perhaps, for life itself, this spell of such contrasts. The wedding was spectacular. More...

Neat Company's NeatDesk tidies up desk with a neat solution

COMPUSCHMOOZE
STEVEN LUBETKIN

In June 2006, I wrote about a novel idea for road warriors to get their expense reports organized faster and more cleanly than stapling crumpled receipts to a handwritten expense form. More...