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Drinking Problem? What Drinking Problem?
| It's called denial. A person start taking alcohol or drugs to cope with stresses in their life. And the next thing you know, the alcohol takes over.
"What happens is that you can't get past yourself," explains David Buchholz. An alcoholic and |
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Covenant Award Winner Featured At Yom Limmud Weekend
| Welcome back to Houston, Jody Hirsh!
Hirsh was the first Jewish Education Director at the JCC, the Eve Ben-Ora of his day. He returns here February 17-19 as Congregation Brith Shalom’s Scholar-in- Residence and one of the featured Yom |
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A Man In Full
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Bebop passed him by.
At age 75, Harry Sheppard's brain contains a store of musical knowledge that spans every style of jazz since the 1950's. But the jazz vibraphonist and member of Houston's Jewish community doesn't think in t |
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Alzheimer's: An Undoing of the Brain
| A couple plans for their retirement years together. Then one day, the wife experiences a moment of total confusion. It’s just a slight lapse of memory the husband thinks. It happens as you get older.
What begins as a few incid |
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Jandek: On the Fringe of the Fringe
| The music business is about exposure. The industry works to produce optimum sales of concert tickets and millions of units of recorded product. The industry works to produce maximum airplay on radio and television. The industry works to produce money |
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Brother-Sister Team Debut Film at WorldFest
| Boy leaves heartland America to follow his dreams. Goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He’s unable to break into films. Then a twist of fate opens the door in a big way. But the success he gets isn’t what he wants.
That’s th |
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A Family and A Community Wait for Yael's Recovery
| It was shortly after her eighth birthday last August when Yael Chen’s mother first noticed her daughter appeared to be having a problem seeing. Watching her daughter play at their home at their small kibbutz near the Gaza border, Nahal Oz, Keren Zilb |
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Engaging In Interfaith Dialogue
| In 1412, Pope Benedict XII invited the Jewish citizens of Aragon, Spain, to an “interfaith dialogue”. Those intellectual get-togethers were called disputations. The purpose was to get the Jews to see the error of their ways and convert.
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We Can Manage Alzhemier's Better Says Houston Researcher
| A number of current drugs are available to slow down and help minimize the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) but they are incredibly underutilized says a leading Houston researcher.
Dr. Rachelle Doody, M.D., Ph.D is the Effi |
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Satirist Andy Borowitz To Open Jewish Book Fair
| My favorite Andy Borowitz satire comes from “Try These Fun Hoaxes”, a piece he wrote for The New Yorker magazine in May 2005 with the tag “sometimes you have to do a hoax because it’s so damm funny”.
Borowitz writes “Convince the leade |
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It's a Jewtopian World
| Stereotypes are ideas held about members of particular groups, based solely on membership in that group. When those outside the group employ stereotypes, it’s usually with a negative or prejudicial intent. When insiders employ stereotypes, it usually |
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Give Genetic Testing As a Wedding Gift
| Here's a question about wedding etiquette and good taste. Would a request for a present of genetic testing instead of cash or a piece of china be totally tacky?
Given the fact that there are diseases that can be lethal to Jewish kids and for w |
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Making the Case For a Jewish Court
| Halakhah (Jewish Rabbinic law) is more than a code to teach religious and moral values. It’s a genuine legal system. And Rabbi Yosef Carmel would like to see a functioning Jewish court in every community.
Carmel is Av Beit Din |
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Reconsidering "Fiddler"
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I hated "Fiddler On the Roof" when it was first released in 1971.
I was young and in love with French cinema. French film seemed to embrace the feeling of hostility we had towards the establishment. The New Wave film ma |
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Steve Tyrell Here March 17-19
| I had a bone to pick with Steve Tyrell.
Yes, the gravelly-voiced Houston native, master of the great American songbook on CDs like “A New Standard” and “Standard Time” and producer/engineer of volumes two and three of Rod St |
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Seeing A Bedouin Village Through Photographs
| Kim Frumin arrived in the Bedouin village of Abu Kaf with a Fulbright scholarship and a plan: take 10 kids who had never used a camera in their lives and turn them into photographers.
The results can be viewed in the photograph |
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Sidney Berger: From Yiddish Theater to Shakespeare
| “The play’s the thing,” said Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Few people in Houston understand that more than Sidney Berger.
Director of University of Houston’s School of Theater and Dance since 1969 and co-founder of the Houston Shakesp |
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A Historian Examines The George H.W. Bush Legacy
| A year after his election to the US Congress in 1966 as the first Republican to represent Houston, George H.W. Bush voted to cut NASA’s appropriations. Given the fact that some 300,000 voters were connected to the Johnson Space Center and local aeros |
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Houstonian Brings The Cards
| Ross Dinerstein delivered the picture. His film, “The Grand”, opens in Houston and nine other cities on April 4. But don’t look for Dinerstein on screen or behind the camera. The Houston native is a film producer.
The term “ |
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Open the Text, Turn to Page 20 and Read the Word Balloon
| Here’s a Siddur. And there’s a comic book. Two unrelated objects until Howard Salmon connected them and created “The Comic Book Siddur”.
A complete prayer book for a Reform Saturday Shabbat service in graphic novel form, “The Comic Boo |
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Aging As An Ascent
| Probably the greatest of all-time Houston films is “Urban Cowboy”. Shot locally, starring Debra Winger and John Travolta, “Urban Cowboy” captured a particular era and slice of white, Houston working-class life. Who originally knew that Sis |
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Mid-East Democracy A Non-Starter Says Scholar
| It’s been six years since America launched the project to bring political reform to the Middle East. As of today in the Arab world, no progress towards democracy is evident. That’s the conclusion of a book-length report card issued by the Carnegie En |
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Galveston Jewish Community Remains Scattered
| The Galveston Jewish community of about 350 is alive and scattered across Texas. Temple B’nai Israel Rabbi Jimmy Kessler, currently staying in Austin, says he’s heard from many Galvestonians, “half by e-mail and half by cell phone” since Hurricane Ik |
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When Leaders Do Wrong Things
| From the National Potato Council to the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association—everyone wants to have the right leader in place, “the one who can identify the winning path and lead the organization along that path”. Americans have widely come to b |
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Scholar Takes A New Look at Israel's Greatest Poet
| What a delight for a literary scholar to discover a years worth of a great poet’s personal letters--correspondence that nobody knew existed. Better still, what if these letters provided a vital insight into the poet’s early biography?
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Burying the Holocaust By Constructing A Family Mythology
| Madeleine Albright claimed she didn’t know she was Jewish for 59 years. Albright’s father, who served in the Czech diplomatic service, and her mother converted to the Roman Catholic religion. Their motives: a mixture of patriotism, ambition and fear. |
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In Beaumont: A Short Cruise Into the Wilderness
| As the crew unties the rope that secures The Cardinal to its dock at downtown Beaumont’s Riverfront Park, Debbie Loftus steers the 45 x 12 covered pontoon boat northwest. The Cardinal cruises upstream on the Neches River, past Trinity Island and a pr |
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Israeli Artist Hanoch Piven: Some Found Objects and a Portrait
| Picture Abraham Lincoln’s portrait. Instead of facial hair, his beard is made of chains with broken links. His mouth is a gavel. His nose is a straight edge. The right eye is composed of a lapel button that reads, “let freedom ring”. And his left eye |
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Cutting Into Joan Rivers
| More than her comedy, talk shows, or red carpet fashion commentary, the greatest Joan Rivers minute--actually half-minute-- was her 2007 Geico television commercial. Rivers’ line, “Honey, this face has seen more knives than a Benihana”, shows Joan’s |
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A Synagogue Interior Exploding Into Visual Images
| There’s little to like in the architecture of Houston synagogues.
Houston synagogue architecture comes in two styles: gigantic and standard communal. The gigantic synagogue model came out of the post-World War II shift to the suburbs. |
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Using Meditation To Further Interfaith Dialogue
| Sometimes, words get in the way. Silence can go deeper.
That’s especially true if you’re trying to get to G-d says Robert J. Hesse, co-founder of the Contemplative Outreach Network, an organization dedicated to interdenominational cont |
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Happy As a Jew in France, Betrayed As a Jew in France
| France was the first European nation to make her Jews citizens. France was the nation where an anti-Dreyfusard coalition perverted the military tribunal system, mobilized anti-Semitic riots and spread nationalist propaganda in order to falsely convic |
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Two Questions: Seymour Lipkin
| One of the greatest living Beethoven interpreters, keyboardist Seymour Lipkin, will give an all-Beethoven piano recital for Da Camera on Tuesday, January 26 at 7:30pm at The Menil Collection. The program will include the “Moonlight” Sonata (No. 14 in |
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Layers of Memory, Layers of the Present
| Once upon a time, there was a nature preserve located on the site of a former quarry, just ten kilometers from the city center of Krakow. And Poland being what it is, it turns out that the Bonarka Nature Preserve sat on the site of the Plaszow Concen |
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Two Questions: Edward Hirsch
| When Edward Hirsch moved from Houston in 2002 to take the helm of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, it marked the first time in American cultural history that a poet or writer had assumed the presidency of such a major foundation. Both t |
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Two Questions: Renee Wallace
| Renee Wallace has created a model for our community. Founder of Vita-Living, Inc., Wallace created the first community-based, small group home for people with severe mental retardation in Houston. She tells the story in “Creative Care: the Vita-Livin |
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Two Questions: Danny Schmidt
| It’s that time of year to get away to the Hill Country. The Kerrville Folk Festival heads into its final weekend. And Austin singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt will be one of the featured performers at the big Saturday June 12 evening concert. The songs |
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What Kind of Synagogue Architecture Do We Want?
| At a recent educational presentation on “Synagogue Architecture: Art Objects and Sacred Spaces” given to members of the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Houston architect Mort Levy told a story about a recent ship cruise that |
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