http://www.thejewishweek.com/taxonomy/term/13440/all en http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/year_review_2009/year_crisis_year_shame <!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="field field-byline"> Joshua Hammerman </div> <div class="field field-jobtitle"> Special to The Jewish Week </div> <div class="field field-pubdate"> <span class="date-display-single">Friday, January 8, 2010</span> </div> <p>&nbsp;Did anything good happen in 2009? It&rsquo;s hard to find the silver lining in this year of crisis and shame for the Jewish world &mdash; as hard as finding a likable character in &ldquo;A Serious Man,&rdquo; a film whose dark Joban overtones of unjust absurdity fit the zeitgeist perfectly. Hope was most definitely last year&rsquo;s poster. We&rsquo;ve had worse years, to be sure, but rarely have we suffered so much from wounds that were primarily self-inflicted.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --><p><a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/year_review_2009/year_crisis_year_shame" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/year_review_2009/year_crisis_year_shame#comments A Year in Review 2009 Education Human Interest War Google Israel USD Avraham Hirschson finance minister Joshua Hammerman Major Marc Dreier member Moses Pava Moshe Katzav Olmert president Prime Minister Scott Rothstein Shas Knesset Shlomo Ben Ezri United Nations Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:46:16 +0000 Dara Levin 6473 at http://www.thejewishweek.com http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/year_review_2009/year_review_2009_2 <!-- google_ad_section_start --><div class="field field-pubdate"> <span class="date-display-single">Friday, January 8, 2010</span> </div> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> http://www.thejewishweek.com/special_sections/year_review_2009/year_review_2009_2#comments A Year in Review 2009 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:41:29 +0000 Dara Levin 6472 at http://www.thejewishweek.com