Visiting the Sick
June 21, 2001
How dare I have fun during chemotherapy? It\’s not that I look forward to seven hours of treatment. But with four of six rounds behind me, I no longer feel I\’m heading into an abyss.
Marlene Adler Marks
Election Twist
June 14, 2001
A week after the L.A. mayoral election, believe me, I too would rather be discussing the Lakers vs. the 76ers than the meaning of the Jewish vote.
New Directions
June 7, 2001
Who\’s the big winner in Tuesday\’s Los Angeles mayoral election? My bet is real estate developer Steve Soboroff. James Kenneth Hahn may be an old-line Democrat, but he benefited mightily from the silence maintained by the wealthy Republican businessman, who had come in third in the April primary.
The Comfort Zone
May 31, 2001
Those of us with a sense of Los Angeles history approach the June 5 election with trepidation. No one wants a repeat of the first Sam Yorty/Tom Bradley race in 1969, with its bitter overlay of race-baiting. That\’s one reason why throughout most of the campaign the candidates have wisely lowered their rhetoric, stressing their similarities rather than differences. As Los Angelenos consider picking the first Latino mayor in the modern era, Tuesday\’s election, pitting former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa against City Attorney James Hahn, already has, if anything, too much historic significance.
A Jewish ‘Sopranos’?
May 24, 2001
In my house last Sunday evening Tony Soprano easily defeated Anne Frank as \”must-see TV.\” Yes, even in the home of committed Jews, the rancid affairs of a New Jersey Mafia family beat out the young girl of the Holocaust. The question is, why?
Talking With Zev
May 17, 2001
With the mayoral election less than three weeks away, the Jewish vote is ready for its closeup.
Jewish Big Time
May 3, 2001
A month after Passover, the winds have not yet died down from the \”Wolpe Hurricane.\”
Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Westwood caused a stir when he asserted, in earshot of a Los Angeles Times reporter, that the Exodus story can still inspire us even if, as some archaeologists assert, the story of the liberation from Egypt is not true. Rabbi Wolpe\’s remarks ended up on the Times\’ front page during Passover and became grist for sermons and Torah study all over town.
Lieberman’s Next Story
April 26, 2001
I thought I saw Arthur Goldberg the other night at USC. The late Supreme Court justice died in 1990, but his ghost surely hung over the Trojan campus Wednesday during Sen. Joseph Lieberman\’s speech at the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life.
Head Trip
April 19, 2001
Jim Wayne has cut my hair for more than 20 years. He created first the wedge look and now the clipped curly style of my professional photos.
How Jewish Voters Still Count
April 12, 2001
Tuesday\’s election results assert that the Jewish \”customer\” still counts, now more than ever, in the even playing field that is L.A. politics.
[authorpage]
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.