High Stakes on ‘Down Ballot’
October 24, 2002
Nearly a quarter of all U.S. claims made to the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) have come from California.
Mike Levy
Support for IsraelElementary to Watson
October 3, 2002
She may not know the word shteibel, but she knows what\’s going on.
Top Cops Patrol Israel Beat
September 26, 2002
"I went with police one night on patrol on Ben Yehuda Street," recalled Irvine Police Chief Michael Berkow. "There was a rock concert that night, about 20,000 people on the street, probably 80 percent 13, 14, 15, 16 years old, the rest parents with toddlers.
Get a CLUE to Help the Poor
September 19, 2002
"It\’s not someone else\’s problem. It\’s our problem." The problem Devorah Shubowitz is talking about: poverty.
Agencies Survive Budget Battle
September 12, 2002
For Jewish community-affiliated agencies that receive money from the state, the last two months of past-deadline legislative wrangling over the budget has been a nail-biting time, with some organizations awaiting word on half or more of their annual funding.
Jew at the ‘Bu
September 5, 2002
In June 1956, Kathy Kohner, a Jewish girl from Brentwood, began tagging along with some of the neighborhood boys driving out to Malibu.
High Security Holidays
August 29, 2002
Last Sunday, a bomb squad van, police cars and fire trucks rushed to Temple Beth Torah in Culver City.
Last Yom Kippur, a car crashed into a small synagogue on Pico Boulevard, and off-duty police officers immediately evacuated the nearby B\’nai David-Judea.
The Real Gidget
August 22, 2002
In June 1956, a Jewish 15-year-old girl named Kathy Kohner began tagging along with some of the neighborhood boys and driving out from her Brentwood home to the beach in Malibu. The sport of surfing intrigued her, and she convinced the boys to teach her. Because she was young, slight and a girl, the surfer dudes took to calling her \”Gidget,\” short for \”girl midget.\”
When she told her screenwriter dad, Frederick Kohner, a Czech-born refugee who fled from the Nazis, about the goings on, he wrote the 1957 novel, \”Gidget,\” featuring the lingo and subculture she brought home from the beach.
The New Middle East Battleground: College Campuses
August 22, 2002
The signs on campus read, "Zionism equals Nazism" and "Why do Israelis love to kill Palestinian children?" One simply showed an Israeli flag dripping blood.
Send in the Committees
August 8, 2002
As former Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks gears up for a City Council race, the campaign for his old job went into high gear last week with 47 candidates vying for the post.
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