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Increase in Hate
Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in California was down slightly, from 275 in 1999 to 257 in 2000, figures across the nation show a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to the ADL\’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.
From Baptist to Beshert
Growing up in Mississippi, the granddaughter of devout Baptist sharecroppers, Delores Gray came from what she calls \”a praying background.\”
Left Hanging
Sharon Kupferman, a junior at Cal State Northridge, was one of 11 students left \”hanging in the air\” last fall, when the statewide university system abruptly canceled its overseas study program in Israel.
Voices of Peace
In the long view — and who could have a longer view than the man who, until recently, was the U.S. State Department\’s Middle East negotiator for the past 12 years? — Dennis Ross believes that diplomacy in the Middle East boils down to psychology. \”The idea of taking politics out of foreign policy,\” Ross said, \”is as illusory as taking psychology out of human behavior, and what is foreign policy after all, but a collection of human behaviors.\”
UCLA Hillel Hosts Muslim-Jewish Series
On April 2, UCLA Hillel opened a spring forum titled \”Muslim-Jewish Relations: Harmony and Discord Throughout History\” examining relations between Muslims and Jews from the founding of Islam to the contemporary era.
Pressure Power?
\nHenry Bean can barely contain his anger when he talks about the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
One on One With James Hahn
Aping the famous Army recruitment commercials, the mayoral candidates have all urged Los Angeles to \”be all you can be.\” But City Attorney James Hahn, ostensibly the one shoo-in for the run-off election in June, has come up with a novel approach to realizing his own mayoral ambitions — by being the people\’s second choice. Hahn knows that outside of his base constituency within the African American community, few people are genuinely fired up about his candidacy. But that\’s okay, he says, because only one of his rivals is going to win the primary in April. And the people who supported the others, often with great passion and fervor, will most likely transfer their allegiance to their second-choice candidate — himself. It\’s a strange race, to be sure, and its Aesopian undertones may well inspire future tales of \”The Tortoise and the Hahn.\” Still, at press time Hahn\’s lead over Steve Soboroff and Antonio Villaraigosa had narrowed — and while Hahn shares the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times with Villaraigosa, the Valley-based Daily News has endorsed Soboroff.
People of the Book
Business has continued to burgeon in the decade since Rabbi Shimon Kraft and his wife, Elizabeth, opened the 613 Mitzvah Store. There is rarely a slow time in the shop.
New Articles
Rationales of the Passover
A Moment in Time: “Chol HaMoed – When the Ordinary Reveals Holiness”
A Bisl Torah — Reconsideration
Print Issue: How Do We Regain Our Mojo? | April 10, 2026
