‘B.C.’ Not P.C.?
Michael Aushenker
April 19, 2001
Are Johnny Hart\’s views on religion as prehistoric as his comic-strip characters?
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Community
Job of Infinite Horror
Naomi Pfefferman
April 19, 2001
At 78, Dario Gabbai, a Sephardic Jew and one of very few sonderkommandos still alive, says he continues to struggle with feelings of guilt and degradation.
Keeping the Flame Alive
Michael Aushenker
April 19, 2001
Dr. Gary Schiller, chairman of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, believes that the future of intelligent, dignified Holocaust scholarship lies not in the hands of the Jewish community, but beyond it.
125 and Still Growing
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
April 19, 2001
This Sunday, HUC-JIR\’s Los Angeles school will celebrate the seminary\’s 125 years with a day of study, song, and partying.
Fighting Exclusion
Steve Feldman
April 12, 2001
In a Philadelphia suburb, a Reform congregation has fought for more than a year to create a synagogue on a parcel of land that for many years had been the site of a Roman Catholic novitiate. An Orthodox congregation in Los Angeles has been in court for years over their use of a private house, even though their neighbors thoroughly approve of the shul. And in New Rochelle, N.Y., a modern Orthodox congregation has been stymied in what seemed like a routine move — across the street.
Finding Work in a Bear Market
Michael Aushenker
April 12, 2001
It was a rough transition for Debbie Murphy. She had just emerged from a difficult divorce after being trapped for two decades in an abusive marriage. Two years ago, she found herself on her own for the first time, unemployed and unequipped.
Model Volunteer
Michael Aushenker
April 12, 2001
\”I didn\’t really know until I got into it that it was a Jewish organization,\” said Deborah Jennings, who is now the Talkline shift leader on Thursday nights. \”It took a little getting used to.\”
Sweet Sorrow
Charlotte Hildebrand
April 12, 2001
A wall of neatly coiffed ladies charges up to the counter to place their orders for baked goods on one of the last days before the holidays and one of the last days before Brown\’s Bakery in North Hollywood closes its doors forever. Some of the customers have been buying their cakes, cookies and bread here for as long as the bakery has been open, and that\’s 42 years. Some have been Brown\’s customers even longer, when it was Brown Brothers Bakery on Wilshire Boulevard; some for longer still, when Brown\’s was in the Bronx, during the war.
Tuning In
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
April 12, 2001
As founder and chair of Westwood One, the biggest radio network in the country, Norman J. Pattiz has an impact on what\’s carried over the airwaves in the United States and beyond. Now that he is a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, he has an even greater voice in international broadcasting.
Postethnic Antisemitism
Sheldon Teitelbaum
April 12, 2001
Just when we thought it was safe to proclaim the mayoral campaign free from the kind of race-baiting that has tainted previous runs for City Hall, we get this bogus automated telephone message, falsely attributed to Republican candidate Steve Soboroff, attesting to his supposed reliance on \”Jewish money.\”
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