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Party Out of Bounds

More than 100 guests sat in a sea of round banquet tables in a Studio City hotel, munching on fancy appetizers presented by waiters. A band warmed up. Kids crowded entertainment stations waiting for artists to personalize clothing and paint their faces.\n\nI had been invited to a 1-year-old\’s birthday and was about to leave, convinced I\’d accidentally entered a bar mitzvah reception. Then I saw David\’s mom, parading the sleepy birthday boy around in her arms.

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Community Braces for Flu Shot Scarcity

Michael Gabai is on a quest. The owner and administrator of Ayres Residential Care Home has spent the last two weeks calling physicians, senior centers, grocery stores and pharmacies in search of flu shots for about half of the 18 residents in his facilities who have been unable to get one.

From Krakow to Pico

When Pavel Vogler left Krakow for Southern California in 1992, he brought almost 100 of his favorite paintings. The darkly shaded oil works in blue, black and purple show Vogler\’s vision of his hometown and its medieval Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, filled with empty synagogues. Moonlight, twilight and the glow of streetlamps illuminate Vogler\’s Polish works, where ghosts of a Jewish history haunt cobblestone streets.

Even Bullies Go to Summer Camp

Directors at three of California\’s Jewish sleep-over camps describe them as nurturing environments where every child is made to feel safe and part of a caring community. Campers, they say, generally meet the high expectations for mensch-like behavior.\n\nBut despite everyone\’s best intentions, camps occasionally see aggressive or exclusionary behavior, and each camp has a policy to firmly and fairly discourage bullying.\n\n

New Vistas

\”The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape,\” by Joel Kotkin. (Random House, $22.95)\n\nJoel Kotkin, a senior fellow at both Pepperdine University Institute for Public Policy and Milken Institute and a research fellow at the libertarian Reason Public Policy Institute, for 20 years has been researching and writing about what he terms \”intangible\” inputs into economic life.

Sitting Idle

Africa is not much on our minds these days. We have obviously been preoccupied by America\’s election and by Israel\’s chaos. Many of us have long since stopped reading the news from Africa, since it is almost always gloomy — Africa as the world\’s basket case, the one continent that seems irretrievably trapped by misgovernment and murder, and now by a horrendous pandemic of AIDS.

Suspect Indicted in Murder of JDL’s Krugel

Almost nine months after the brutal prison-yard slaying of Earl Krugel, the longtime No. 2 man in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), federal authorities have indicted an inmate with no apparent ties to Krugel.\n\nThe suspect, David Frank Jennings, 30, allegedly attacked Krugel from behind with a piece of concrete hidden in a bag while Krugel was using an exercise machine at a federal prison in Phoenix.\n\n

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