Tim Boxer

Tim Boxer At Jewish Women's Foundation

Adam Dickter — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:32:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Bianna Golodryga was only 18 months when she left Moldova in the Soviet Union to settle in Galveston, Texas. Mom mopped floors and dad cleaned garages so she could go to school. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and today is an ABC News business correspondent and the weekend co-anchor of Good Morning America.

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Tim Boxer At American Friends Of Tel Aviv Museum Of Art

Adam Dickter — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

I was sitting with a couple of lawyers at the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art gala the other week at the Pierre Hotel.

Harvey Feuerstein, of Manhattan, proudly mentioned that his son Mark is now in his fourth year starring in “Royal Pains” on the USA network. The 40-year-old actor plays the lead role of the doctor, Hank Lawson, in this comedy series.

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Tim Boxer at Cornell Sermon Contest

Thu, 03 May 2012 16:19:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Sarah Grace Victor, born in Philadelphia to Christian parents from India, is the winner of the second annual Harold I. Saperstein Cornell Student Sermon Contest. The competition, based on the Hebrew Bible, was open to all students on campus. Victor emerged victorious over 30 contestants.

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Tim Boxer At Park East Synagogue Honoring Rabbi Schneier

Adam Dickter — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:10:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Columnist

As the New York Jewish community gathered last month at the Park East Synagogue to celebrate Arthur Schneier’s 50^th year as the shul’s rabbi, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proclaimed, “Here’s to the next 50 years.”

“That’s ridiculous!” declared Ed Koch. “I wish you 120!”

The former mayor recalled when he had a stroke in 1987 and the rabbi came to him in the hospital. “Say this prayer after me in Hebrew,” Rabbi Schneier told him.

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Tim Boxer At Seeds Of Peace Dinner

Adam Dickter — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:48:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Seeds of Peace attracted some 1,000 youthful guests to its seventh annual peace market on March 1 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. They came to support an organization that seeks to empower a younger generation to resolve disputes in various regions of conflict, including the Israel/Palestine issue.

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Tim Boxer At Seeds Of Peace Dinner

Adam Dickter — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

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Tim Boxer At Friends of the IDF Dinner

Adam Dickter — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

One of the supreme joys in Mir Hadassi’s young life was when she and her parents converted to Judaism in Holland and made aliya. “From the very first moment I saw Israel I fell in love,” she said. Her devotion to the nation intensified when she did her military service in the north which came under rocket fire during the first Lebanon war in 1982.

At the same time she met her husband Yossi and, after army service, settled in Kibbutz Merhavia (where Golda Meir first lived when she arrived in 1921).

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Tim Boxer At America-Israel Friendship League

Adam Dickter — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:03:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

On a trip to Israel Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame) brought his guitar and message to schools in Lod and Petach Tikva. His aim was to bring Jewish and Arab kids together to prevent bullying and intimidation among schoolchildren.

At a recent America-Israel Friendship League dinner in New York, Yarrow performed the song that most resonated with the kids:

Don’t laugh at me, don’t call me names,

Don’t get your pleasure from my pain.

Tim Boxer At National Jewish Outreach Program

Adam Dickter — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:40:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Shabbat was the theme of the National Jewish Outreach program’s 18^th annual dinner Feb. 13 at the Grand Hyatt in New York. Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, founding director of NJOP, which has sponsored Shabbat Across America and Canada for more than 800,000 Jews since 1996, honored Sen. Joe Lieberman for his book, “The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath” (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster).

Tim Boxer At Jerusalem Foundation Benefit

Adam Dickter — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jeiwsh Week Online Columnist

Oftentimes a funny story can make a penetrating point. Mark Sofer said that when he was Israel’s ambassador to India he attended a performance of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The program included Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony.

He noticed that in the first movement there were 20 violinists playing. “Only 10 would do,” he concluded. “If Schubert had taken seriously what I’m saying, he would have finished the symphony.”

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Tim Boxer At YU Convocation

Adam Dickter — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, keynote speaker at Yeshiva University’s 87th annual Hanukkah convocation at the Waldorf-Astoria, was impressed how the university’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) engages in the spirit of tikkun olam.

She said graduate Josh Teitcher spent a summer in Israel with Counterpoint Israel—a CJF initiative for students to help local youth connect to Jewish values—and changed the life one young boy named Yitzchak.

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Michael Douglas Honors Dad Issur

Adam Dickter — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Guest of honor at Children Of Chernobyl Dinnner

The Spielberg matriarch, Leah Adler, was there. Her daughters Nancy and Sue Spielberg, were there. But son Steven Spielberg was nowhere to be seen at the annual Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) dinner Nov. 21 at Chelsea Pier 60.

Emcee Jon Voight explained that Spielberg was in Richmond, Virginia, shooting “Lincoln.”

“I thought Lincoln was shot already!” Nancy exclaimed.

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Volkswagen Gives $1 Million To ADL

Adam Dickter — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:20:00 +0000

Tim Boxer

Jewish Week Online Columnist

Volkswagen on Tuesday announced a commitment of one million dollars to the Anti-Defamation League to strengthen its anti-bias education efforts and help fight anti-Semitism.

The president/CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, Jonathan Browning, made the announcement last week (Nov. 8) at an ADL awards dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria.

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Tim Boxer: ‘Let’s Shoot Only With Movies’

James Besser — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:38:51 +0000

Tim Boxer

Special to the Jewish Week

Before Liev Schreiber headed to the Paris Theater on May 5 to accept an award at the Israel Film Festival, he said he did “what every good Jewish boy would do — I called my mother.”

His mom, Heather, told him to say it’s wonderful to be a Jew.

Of course Schreiber immediately responded, “But ma, is it not also wonderful to not be a Jew?”

Mom replied, “How should I know?”

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Tim Boxer: To Prevent A Holocaust

James Besser — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:53:58 +0000

Tim Boxer

Special to the Jewish Week

The biggest losers of World War II were not the Germans or the Japanese but the Jews, says Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. "We lost one-third of our people."

That happened because no one came to the rescue. ""The Allies didn't think it was in their interest. President Roosevelt refused to bomb the rail tracks to the death camps. He was reluctant to divert any part of the war effort to save Jews from going up in flames of the chimneys at Auschwitz. Plus they didn't like us very much," Glick said.

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