Pediatrician apprentices under Josef HaCohen Halperin By Leigh E. Rich Dr. Kenneth Katz, a local pediatrician and mohel, recently visited one of the most renown and well-respected mohelim in Israel this past August—Josef HaCohen Halperin, chief mohel for Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem. Katz traveled to Israel for the sole purpose of apprenticing under Halperin […]
12.15.2000
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08.27.1998
If ‘The Spiritual Tourist’ is any kind of travel guide, Westerners don’t have a prayer By Leigh E. Rich The Spiritual Tourist: A Personal Odyssey Through the Outer Reaches of Belief By Mick Brown Bloomsbury Publishing $24.95 This may be a “personal odyssey” for British author and journalist Mick Brown, but for the rest of […]
04.05.1996
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A ‘Perfect’ play for traveling to India … without the trans-Atlantic flight By Leigh E. Rich Although it’s populated with 813 million people, many Westerners know little, let alone understand, the exotic and enigmatic land called India. Regardless, it entices millions of tourists every year, from those searching for enlightenment to those needing to heal. […]
03.29.1996
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Actor fills the shoes of a god By Leigh E. Rich From Joseph in a Christmas pageant at age 4 to the Hindu god Ganesha, actor David Paul Francis has had some very large shoes to fill. And he steps into his latest role in the Arizona Theatre Company’s rendition of Terrance McNally’s “A Perfect […]
