I stutter. But I am not a stutterer. It does not define me; rather it complements me. Through the course of history, individuals who stutter have entered into all realms of life. In a religious sense, Moses stuttered. Yet so did Marilyn Monroe. As did James Earl Jones (“This is AT&T”), Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, and numerous other famous people. And many more unknown people, ...
In September I started my position as Donor Relations Representative at the Jewish Communal Fund. What is the JCF, you may ask? I certainly did when I first arrived. However, in the six months since I started, I have learned much about the way the Jewish community is funded, how people give, and their motivations. The Jewish Communal Fund is a donor-advised fund located in New York City. What a donor-advised fund does is simplify the charitable process. Let's say you're someone who gives $5000 to charity every year. You probably give anywhere from $200 to $1000 to many different places, to try and support as many places as possible. Come tax time, you have to find this pile of receipts to certify your donations to the government. What we do is simplify all of that. Instead of writing anywhere from 10 to 100 checks during the year, you make out one check to us for that larger amount and open a fund with us. You get one receipt from us for that total amount, and that is your tax deduction. The money is invested, tax-free, and grows as the market grows (not as much in the last 2 months, but still enough to make it worthwhile). When you want to send money to an organization, you send us a "grant recommendation" and we send the money to the organization for you, usually within 3 business days. There is no need for you to write dozens of checks or spend money on stamps. We do all the leg work for you. What happens if the organization is not in our database? We have someone here who researches these organizations to make sure they are certified tax-exempt by the IRS. ...
This morning, the Huffington Post wrote a buzz article about the possibility of an Obama Bloomberg ticket. Mayor Bloomberg would bring his strong business sense and international experience to the table, while his just being a Jew, and his strong Israel support, would quell fears that Obama might be anti-Israel. Bloomberg's grassroots Mayors-Across-America political movement, in conjunction with Governor Schwarzenegger's similar efforts, ...
Several years ago, a collection of Jews from Chicago got together to deal with hatred run amok. They formed two groups which they ironically named "One Groups." The purpose of these groups was to help its members develop doable, individual projects that would heal rifts and build bridges. The first meetings were charged with energy. There were people representing many strata of Jewish society that rarely interact with each other. There were Kach members and ...
In the March 25, 2008 article "MK: Hundreds of organ transplants may lose funding," the Jerusalem Post got their research on Brain Death in Halacha wrong. They misquoted the opinion of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Here's what they said: ... (Rav) Elyashiv has also ruled in the past that brain death does not constitute clinical death according to halacha. In a letter signed ...
In case his name didn't give it away, now you know: Josh Radnor is Jewish. Profiled in The Forward on March 12, Radnor reveals that he grew up in Bexley, Ohio, and attended the Columbus Torah Academy through the 8th grade. He also spent a year in Israel in 1997, studying on the Livnot U'Lehibanot program. "Wait, who the heck is Josh Radnor?" ...
Whenever I get to read a piece of the Tanach, the Old Testament, there is always this sense of understanding, a correlation of the ancient words to the here and now of today’s Jewish existence. Listening to the Rabbi reading the Megilah, the story of Esther, Mordechai, Haman and the rest of the clan, the similarity of this situation to current event ...
While those in the Internet reading community may not be aware, Brooklyn rabbis have recently banned marriage. I went undercover to find the story, and I now present my first piece of investigative journalism. Rabbis Ban Marriage: Cite Promiscuity as Reason Yet Another Jewneric Exclusive by staff writer, David Gertler A group of 178 of Ultra-Orthodox rabbis came together to sign a ban on marriages this past Tuesday. Rabbi Avrohom Katz of Brooklyn noted that he ...
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All good things must come to an end and, on that note, I give you the final installment of Jewneric's look at Kosher wine accompanied by some famous quotations about the aforementioned beverage. Verbau Gewurztraminer 2002 Verbau Gewurztraminer has an elegant structure,a sweet body and a fruity bouquet. Spicy flavors and aromas, semi dry. Best Served With: Asian and medium spicy dishes. "I rather like ...
