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Mideast Briefs

Jewish relief agencies and the government of Israel are mobilizing to send rescue missions and humanitarian aid to Turkey, in the wake of a devastating earthquake that, at press time, may have claimed more than 4,000 lives.

So, Nu?

There is an old joke from the Holocaust, Robin Williams says.

Two old Jews want to kill Hitler. The fuhrer doesn\’t show up. \”So one turns to the other and says, \’My God, I hope nothing happened to him,\’ \” Williams quips.

A Man of Wealth,

Ronald Steven Lauder has a dream.

At some point in the future, Israel\’s Negev desert, now \”basically Arizona without people,\” will be a lush garden spot, made fruitful by a string of desalination plants purifying seawater.

What’s Happened Since the Handshake?

Six years after the historic Rabin-Arafat handshake on the White House lawn, the Palestinians can point to a mixed bag of results from the Oslo peace process.

Kol Nidre on the Nightclub Floor

My father was a song-and-dance man of the first order. He loved to tell jokes and he had a million of them.

Casting their Differences Upon the Water

Four West Valley synagogues representing three different denominations — the Calabasas Shul (Orthodox), Temple Solael (Reform), Temple Aliyah and Shomrei Torah (Conservative) — will join together for a Tashlich ceremony Sunday, Sept. 19, at the Westlake Village Marina.

Her Call to Duty

Terri R. Smooke sat at a table at Starbucks on Beverly Drive catching up on her letter writing.\n\”It\’s been so hectic the last few weeks, I\’ve got to use every spare moment,\” she explained.\n\nSmooke\’s appointment calendar started overflowing a month ago, when she took a call from Sharon Davis, wife of California Gov. Gray Davis.

Boy Meets Mom

Busted flat in Barstow, I realize the desert is no place for an old Plymouth. The mechanic says something about \”a machine shop in Victorville,\” and I think that is one phrase you never want to hear in a sentence with your name. That and \”feeding tube.\”

Let’s Celebrate! It’s Yom Kippur!

In the waning hours of Yom Kippur, the last rays of sun cast long shadows through the stained-glass windows. It is time for \”Ne\’ila,\” the final prayer in a day filled with prayer, when the gates on high, opened especially wide for this day, begin their final closing.

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