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Ten Years After the Wall

Ruth E. Gruber December 16, 1999

Memories of lost family are conjured when walking in footsteps of the past

Letter to an Expecting Parent

Yehuda Lev December 16, 1999

Dear Mr. Prime Minister;

By now you have certainly received thousands of congratulatory messages celebrating the good news that you and your wife, Cherie, are expecting a baby next summer.

Reflections on Joseph Heller

Sanford Pinsker December 16, 1999

When you write a book-length study of a living author lots of things can happen; most of them are bad.
\”You\’ve missed a nuance here, a shading there,\” some will point out, in the iciest language possible, while others go straight to the jugular and angrily insist that you don\’t know beans about their work.

Joseph Heller, who passed away Dec. 13 at the age of 76, was a wonderful exception.

Lovely Light

Marlene Adler Marks December 2, 1999

Chanukah begins this evening, and not a moment too soon.
When my daughter was young and the sun rose and set on her every lesson with alphabet and equation, I bemoaned any gap between Christmas and the Festival of Lights. The closer, the better, if you ask me. How better to illustrate the primal lesson of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the pleasure and challenge of a Jew living simultaneously in two civilizations.

New Year, New Changes

Jewish Journal 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.

Out and About

Jewish Journal November 25, 1999

A newspaper office is, in some ways, a hot-house world. There are those insistent deadlines every week; copy to edit; layouts to peruse; the telephone and e-mail increasingly the link to a world that\’s outside.\nBut then — thank goodness — there are those forays out of the office. They turn out nearly always to be a surprise; nearly always a learning experience.\n\nI had three such experiences this past week.\n\n

Moses: A Life

Helen Schary Motro November 18, 1999

Anyone seeking explanations for a given period or event related to Moses need simply look to this well-organized volume.

Officials Visit Israel

Orit Arfa November 18, 1999

Andrew Carter, a participant of Operation Unity, a program that brings minority Los Angeles high school students to live on an Israeli kibbutz for six weeks, never felt as accepted as he did in Israel. No one treated him differently because of his color, he said, and the minute he got off the plane, \”Everyone wanted to hug you.\”

Praying for Southern Baptists

Curt Schleier November 4, 1999

I\’m not surprised that Southern Baptists are praying for the conversion of the Jews. I\’m praying for Southern Baptists. I pray that they see how hypocritical and offensive it is for them to say they love Jews and in the same breath trash our religion.

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