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August 20, 2008 • 19 Av 5768Mishpacha Issue 222
This is China — a country that displaced millions of people from their homes in order to expedite the building of stadiums, Olympic villages, hotels, and ultra-modern housing projects in Beijing and elsewhere. In most cases, residents were given a week’s prior notice, without any offer of alternative living arrangements
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Writing columns must be one of the easiest jobs in the world. All one has to do is keep one’s ears open and in the course of a week one can pretty much count on someone basically writing the column for you.
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As Russian troops and artillery moved into Georgia last week, most of the Jews in Gori, located in the heart of the South Ossetia war zone, fled to Georgia’s capital city, Tbilisi. While many were airlifted off the battlefront to Israel, Mishpacha’s Aharon Granevitch-Granot flew the other way and holed up with the shellshocked refugees. A firsthand report of the devastation of destruction, the jubilation of a cease-fire, and the despair facing further conflict
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Millions of people around the world are listening to Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, and turning their lives around in the process. What does a recently deceased computer science professor have to teach Orthodox Jews that we don’t already know?
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Maybe he is not as famous a painter as Rembrandt, or as, let’s say, contemporary American neo-expressionist Julian Schnabel, yet art lovers with a keen eye and an interest in Jewish themes have known Itshak Holtz all along. In fact, for those of us who would prefer things Jewish in real life as well as in art, Holtz might be even more of a household name than Schnabel. Not represented — yet — in any major museum in the US or Israel, his paintings do steadily find their way to buyers
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One of the fi rst things I learned in journalism school was that to attract a reader’s attention, one must compose a catchy headline, or else people will turnthe page.
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It seems that nine out of ten people today suffer from a new phenomenon called global fatigue. Symptoms range from deep apathy for any movement whatsoever to not wanting to carry on even the smallest conversation. It can hit any time of the day, and/or at any age.