Go East, Young Jew
Orit Arfa
August 23, 2001
Yael Barzideh applied to two colleges last year: University of Pennsylvania because she wanted to go there, and UCLA because that\’s where her parents wanted her to go.
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Commentary
The Debate
Rob Eshman
August 16, 2001
Another gut-wrenching week. With the murder of American Shoshana Greenbaum by a Palestinian suicide bomber, the violence in Israel turned even more tragic, if that is possible, and even more personal.
Deaths in the Family
Rob Eshman
August 9, 2001
\nWhenever one of our writers or contributors — or I myself — use the term \”Jewish community,\” I think of Lew Wasserman. An interviewer once asked the former MCA chairman and power broker about the Jewish community here. Wasserman shot back: \”I don\’t know of a Jewish community. It is nonexistent.\”
The Other Sides
Rob Eshman
August 2, 2001
There are weeks when history is written, and there are weeks, like this past one, when it is rewritten.
Slippery Slope
Rob Eshman
July 26, 2001
\nThe all-new, completely updated \”Joys of Yiddish\” (Crown, 2001) by Leo Rosten will be released soon, and thumbing through an advance copy yesterday I couldn\’t stop smiling at the language\’s ability to capture an action, an emotion and a worldview — all in one word.
A Time to Pay
Tom Hayden
July 26, 2001
The largest Holocaust-era German insurance company has not paid a single claim to survivors. Meanwhile, the international commission created to resolve Holocaust claims disputes has spent $30 million on administrative costs, compared to $3 million distributed to elderly survivors. From my own experience, these were predictable scandals. It is not too late to reverse them. In any event, the story should be told.
Forms of Frustration
Mike Levy
July 26, 2001
Marie Kaufman needed help. Even though the 60-year-old social worker is the president of a Holocaust child survivor\’s support group and has worked as an interviewer for Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, she had trouble when she applied for restitution for slave labor from the German government.
Valley Community Resources
Orit Arfa
July 19, 2001
The following is a partial list of Jewish organizations, schools and synagogues in Valley cities with already developed, and growing, Jewish communities.
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