Up Front
July 17, 1997
Dr. Susan Marilyn Block is a nice Jewish girl, who talks about sex on late-night cable TV. From Esther to… Dr. Suzy?\n
Rob Eshman
ROB ESHMAN is publisher and editor-in-chief of TRIBE Media Corp./Jewish Journal. Email him at robe@jewishjournal.com. You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter @foodaism and @RobEshman.
Navigating Sexual Turmoil
June 26, 1997
Naomi Wolf, author of \”Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood\”\nSex will always be with us, but thoughtful, non-hysterical conversations about sexual issues are few and far between. With the publication of her newest book, \”Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood\” (Random House, $24), social critic Naomi Wolf has helped bring the subject of girls\’ sexuality to the national spotlight in a serious way — for at least as long as it takes to conduct a book tour.
Going Her Way
June 12, 1997
Haviva Kohl is two people. She is, at 18, the idealistic young woman, fresh from her high school graduation, eager to live her dreams. And she is, at 18, the toughened outsider, wise to the ways of the world, even a bit exhausted by it all.\n\nFor the past six years, Kohl has been on her own. Not because she had to be but because she wanted to be. It was the only way she could receive a Jewish education.
Who Was Bart Crum?
June 5, 1997
Who was Bart Crum? Now there\’s a question that separates the young from the old, or, to be kind, the younger from the older.
The Boom Years
May 29, 1997
If you look out the window of Room 120 at Sinai Akiba Academy, you\’ll see a hole. The hole is the size of a city block.
UP FRONT
May 29, 1997
Question: What do you get when you cross Hollywood, the Holocaust and Jewish communal fund-raising? Answer: Something exactly like last Wednesday night\’s Simon Wiesenthal National Tribute Dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Up Front
May 22, 1997
At the Dixieland Jubilee in Sacramento, the annual super bowl of jazz, the band that got the most ecstatic reception a couple of years ago was cradled a few thousand miles east of New Orleans.\n\nIt was the Jerusalem Jazz Band, whose members hail each other by such fine old Southern names as Boris, Mika, Shmulik, Stanislav and Aaron.
After the
May 22, 1997
The most astonishing account in Hector Feliciano\’s always-astonishing new nonfiction book, \”The Lost Museum\” (Basic Books), follows Adolf Hitler on a visit to the Paris Opera House on June 28, 1940, the Führer\’s first, and only, visit to the city.
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