Genetics I like the idea of genetics being able to fix things that go wrong, particularly in pre-birth situations. I’m less excited about it as far as the food we eat. I figure there has to be a cost for
By: Gary Rosenblatt, Editor and Publisher Ivan Ciment at the Dubai Golf Club, U.A.E., October 1999Ivan Ciment, a graduate of the New York University Journalism School, has spent a good bit of time traveling to the Mideast, including Israel, Egypt,
In general, my sense is that current efforts are spearheading surgical strikes to infuse new life into the younger sectors of an increasingly apathetic and unaffiliated Jewish population. I am skeptical and it is within the consensus that it will
This month in Phoenix I sat at a dinner next to the head of a rabbinical cemetery (I meant seminary — just wanted to be sure you’re listening). She wanted to talk about the Bar Mitzvah ceremony. She took her
This report seems at first blush to be about a parochial subject but it ain’t. If you want to know where the future funding and emotional priorities of independent Jewish philanthropy lie for the next generation, this conference gives you
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday and will be decisive in determining the two candidates. so far, there is no reason to deviate from the prediction that it will be a gore/bush race and that gore has a good chance of convincing
Next Generation Middle Easterners: An Undiscovered Planet for American Jewry Surprise and consternation when the late king of Jordan suddenly passed over his long-tapped heir and appointed a 36 year old unknown as his successor was the first wave of
FIRST NIGHT: At the Seder we act in a schizophrenic manner — first we pull out drops of wine from our cup as if to show magnanimity toward the plagued Egyptians and then later we ask God to pour out
Back in January 1999, I polled Friends of Ivan seeking nominees for the most admired person alive. If you recall, there were many different nominees but Michael Jordan and Bill Clinton stood out. I suppose that in a year Michael
The meaning of life is…..42. Avi & Adina Ciment with apologies to Hitchhiker’s Guide I believe we’re here to improve the world and therefore win our return to the lost paradise (gan eden). We can do it! Marcus Rudelsky, Washington
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