Happy Campers
Steve Getzug
November 23, 2000
Norman and Lela Jacoby are talking about Camp Ramah again.
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Community
Focusing on the Good
Tom Tugend
November 23, 2000
Only later did she learn of the dangers she had survived. One of the school teachers was a collaborator, who could easily have revealed Josie\’s real identity.
Losing My Father, One Day at a Time
Jonathan Kozol
November 23, 2000
In his case, there is a poignant irony in this affliction. My father is a neurologist, a specialist in diagnosing cerebral impairment. For nearly 50 years he taught neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Twenty-First-Century Racist
David Evanier
November 23, 2000
Alexander James Curtis thought he was one of the smartest racists around, smarter than the police and the federal government.
Boutiques, Bazaars, Auctions and Fairs for Chanukah
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2000
Boutiques, Bazaars, Auctions and Fairs for Chanukah
Service for the Dogs and Cats
Naomi Pfefferman
November 16, 2000
The rabbi wore a pooch-print tie.\nThe rebbetzin sported a pussycat brooch and a doggy bone pin \”to give equal time\” to man\’s best friends. The congregants arrived two by two, with canines and felines in tow.
Sharing Hope for Peace
Jane Ulman
November 16, 2000
On Nov. 9, five years after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Milken Community High School students reached across 7,563 miles and 10 time zones to their sister school, Tichon Chadash, in Tel Aviv.
Settling In
Michael Aushenker
November 16, 2000
It\’s the obvious first topic of conversation, and Paul Castro has no problem addressing it. As the newly minted executive director of Jewish Family Service of Greater Los Angeles (JFS), Castro now runs a Jewish social outreach organization – and yet he is neither Jewish nor holds a degree in social work.\”It was more of a challenge for the organization than for me,\” Castro told The Journal. \”I\’ve never really not felt part of the family at JFS. The fact that I\’ve not been Jewish has not been an issue in the day-to-day operations or in my interactions with people.\”
Courage Under Fire
Adam Wills
November 9, 2000
Mort Wolk hadn\’t slept a wink in two days. The invasion had been called off the day before due to bad weather, but Wolk had been on edge and too busy to rest. It was 4 a.m., and his plane was over Nazi-held Normandy. The only Jew and the only enlisted man on board, Wolk was part of Task Force A, a group of 40 paratroopers that had four hours to establish and secure a command post for the D-Day invasion.
Olympic Mettle
Charlotte Hildebrand
November 9, 2000
Los Angeles Jews agonized along with the rest of the country as the results from the Nov. 7 election trickled in. Hardly as split as the rest of the nation, Jews in California preferred Al Gore to George Bush 82 to 15 percent.
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