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Kosher Living

The mitzvah of saving a human life

THE Torah says, “and one shall live by the commandments,” on which the Talmud comments, “and not die by them.”

The Torah is a living Torah and the life it prescribes is just that: life. Nihilism, suicide, terrorism — even inflicting on oneself a non-fatal wound — have no place in the value scheme of the Torah.

It logically follows that if someone’s life is in danger, it is a mitzvah to try to save that person’s life.

This has many implications:

Medicine.

It is a mitzvah to acquire the expertise to save a person’s life. To be a doctor, a nurse or an EMT is to engage in holy action. It is a mitzvah to consult with a doctor, to save one’s own life.

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:42 )

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L'Chaim (Spring)

Camp Ramah's Rainmaker

Camp Ramah's Rainmaker

WHAT do fine cigars and a brand-new Jewish summer camp have in common?

Absolutely nothing, would be the perfectly logical answer.

Wrong.

There is indeed common ground between these two disparate topics, in the form of one David Engleberg, a Denver businessman and Jewish community activist.

At this stage of Engleberg’s life, fine cigars and summer camps are primary, if polar opposite, interests. He approaches both with a thoughtful enthusiasm that well complements his soft-spoken, low-key personality.

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Dollars & Sense

Denver day schools strategize on coping with the economic squeeze

Denver day schools strategize on coping with the economic squeeze

FOR the past 16 months or so, a perfect economic storm has been raging, affecting governments, businesses, individuals and non-profit organizations in an utterly non-discriminatory hurricane.

In its still-churning wake, the storm is leaving shattered plans, busted budgets, depleted portfolios and dashed hopes. Corporations and institutions have been left crippled, or left for dead, and their leaders left wondering when it will all end.

An economic environment, surely, to test the mettle of virtually anyone or anything that deals in money.

Taking this global storm down to the microcosmic level of local community, it’s not difficult to see evidence of the damage.

In the Denver Jewish community specifically, ambitious plans for a federation-led capital improvement campaign have been placed indefinitely on hold; community-run social service programs have cut back hours and benefits; staffers of Jewish community organizations have been laid off or seen their hours reduced.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:32 )

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Boulder Issue

Jewish life at CU

Jewish life at CU

IN mid-December, as the rest of Colorado struggles for a scintilla of warmth, activity at CU Boulder reaches the boiling point.

Cell phone plans max out as kids struggle to organize study groups before finals. Voicemails play tennis as friends ready for winter break and anxious parents verify flight schedules.

According to the office of planning, budget and analysis, CU welcomed approximately 30,659 students –– including undergraduate, graduate, full- and part-time students –– this fall.

Hillel at CU estimates that over 2,000 of them are Jewish –– a dieter’s slice of the demographic pie.

“You do realize that CU is not Brandeis,” one young woman admonishes the IJN via her crackling cell.

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Very Important People

Underdog champ

Underdog champ

IT’S far from a secret that David Lane has a thing for the underdog.

He is ready and willing to defend society’s most unpopular, even loathed, figures — everyone from murderers to Nazis to radical leftist professors who say outrageous and inflammatory things.

He loves nothing more than to be the lone defender who steps up to help the harried Frankenstein monster, pursued by the enraged, torch-bearing villagers — the “howling mob,” as he likes to call them.

He is very often not paid for what he does, and hardly ever thanked. The Denver-based criminal and civil rights attorney has the most thankless of jobs.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:54 )

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JTA News

Ceremony honoring terrorist held in Ramallah

15 March 2010, 11:36 am A ceremony near Ramallah to honor a terrorist who caused the death of 37 Israeli civilians, that was supposed to be postponed, was held as a "popular rally."... [Link]

AIPAC to Obama: Defuse tension with Israel

15 March 2010, 11:07 am The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called on the Obama administration to take steps to defuse tension with Israel, while Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said bilateral relations are in crisi... [Link]

U.S. panel: N.Y. discriminated against Arab principal

14 March 2010, 5:43 pm The principal of an Arabic-language public school in New York City was discriminated against, leading to her resignation, a U.S. commission found.... [Link]

Egypt cancels synagogue opening

14 March 2010, 5:07 pm Egypt canceled the official opening of a restored Cairo synagogue over what it called Jewish "provocative" actions.... [Link]

Don’t marry DiCaprio, Refaeli urged

14 March 2010, 3:49 pm Members of a Jewish nationalist group have written to Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, urging her not to marry her non-Jewish boyfriend, actor Leonardo DiCaprio.... [Link]

Falling tree kills N.J. synagogue-goers

14 March 2010, 3:36 pm Two Orthodox Jewish men returning from a New Jersey synagogue after evening services were killed by a falling tree.... [Link]

Gender-segregated bus lines protested

14 March 2010, 3:23 pm Demonstrators held signs reading "Israel is not Tehran" during a protest against gender-segregated bus lines in Jerusalem.... [Link]

Shoah Foundation to auction off patented technology

14 March 2010, 3:07 pm Patented technology developed for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation for indexing and searching its vast archived collection of video testimonies is being auctioned off.... [Link]

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