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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/18051/full/18051/jewish-bulletin-picks-up-trio-of-rockower-awards/ <br /><br /> <b>Jewish Bulletin picks up trio of Rockower Awards</b> <br /> Friday, June 28, 2002 | by <p>Steve Greenberg is on a roll. </p> <br /><br /><p>A bleary-eyed, yarmulke-wearing man representing Israel deadpans: "Daily life."<br /><br /> Illustrator Nina Bonos of Santa Rosa picked up a second-place mention in the Noah Bee Award for Excellence in Editorial Cartooning or Illustrating in Newspapers category.<br /><br /> Bonos' designs graced the Bulletin's front page on both the 2001 Passover and Chanukah editions. The latter illustration depicted a menorah that spelled out "Shalom."<br /><br /> Staff writer Joe Eskenazi garnered the Bulletin's sole editorial award in the competition, taking third-place in the Excellence in Arts and Criticism News and Features in the American Jewish Press Awards-sponsored competition.<br /><br /> Eskenazi's piece, "Be Gone, Dybbuk! Chabadnik's Latest Book Tells All," was a review of former Marin Chabad Rabbi Chaim Dalfin's "Soul Journeys," a treatise on demon possession, reincarnation and even the weekly schedule of a dispossessed soul.<br /><br /> "Depending upon one's spiritual beliefs, 'Soul Journeys' is either a compendium of red-hot bubbemeysas (old wives' tales) or a case log of instances proving the existence of the thereafter, and, therefore, the necessity of living a halachic life," wrote Eskenazi.<br /><br /> "Dalfin's book is quick, entertaining and serves as a glimpse into the mysterious world of the Kabbalah. If one finds it a stretch to anoint a Marin homeless man as Elijah the Prophet, however, this book may be entertaining in ways unintended by the author."<br /><br /> This is the first Rockower award for Eskenazi, and the second for both Bonos and Greenberg.</p> <p> </p>

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