Jewish Journal
New Vistas
November 29, 1999
\”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.
Even Bullies Go to Summer Camp
November 29, 1999
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
From Krakow to Pico
November 29, 1999
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.
New Year, New Changes
November 29, 1999
Last week I was driving to a family celebration at Leisure World in Laguna Hills when I noticed something very odd about the weather: Fall was in the air.
Community Braces for Flu Shot Scarcity
November 29, 1999
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.
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