Pushing for the Jewish Vote
Mike Levy
May 31, 2001
The Jewish vote, which in recent years has played a significant role in supporting the victor, may very well be one of the factors to swing this race.
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Journalists Behaving Badly
Sheldon Teitelbaum
May 24, 2001
Shortly before or perhaps just after World War II, actor Kirk Douglas asked Dorothy Buffum Chandler why the Los Angeles Times seemed to pander so wantonly to the anti-Semitism then still rampant among many of the city\’s more refined elites.
\”Why, darling?\” cooed the doyenne of the Chandler newspaper dynasty. \”We do it because it sells papers.\”
Torah Truths
Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
April 19, 2001
It\’s neither new nor shocking to most of us that the earth is round or that the Torah isn\’t a history book dictated to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.
Voices of the Community
Tom Tugend
March 29, 2001
\”Today we witnessed Judge Nora Manella lock the door and throw away the key on a man whose original target on Aug. 10, 1999, was to attack the Simon Wiesenthal Center–Museum of Tolerance.\”
Furrow Sentenced
Tom Tugend
March 29, 2001
The contrite courtroom assertion was in sharp contrast to his initial statement to FBI agents that spraying 70 bullets at children and workers at the North Valley Jewish Community Center was \”a wake-up call to America to kill Jews.\”
Just Say No!
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
March 22, 2001
By the time Wendy Mogel finished her presentation on the hazards and remedies of expecting too much from our overindulged, overprotected, over-scheduled children, she could almost see the senior citizens pumping their arms in a victorious \”yes!\”
The evergreen interfaith dilemma
Julie Wiener
December 14, 2000
With abundant commercials, carols and \”holiday specials\” crowding the airwaves and bright red and green decorations adorning most neighborhoods, American Jews can scarcely ignore Christmas.
A Modest Proposal
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
December 14, 2000
Chanukah is a minor holiday that commemorates the victory in 165 b.c.e. of outnumbered Jewish forces over the army of the oppressive Greco-Syrian empire that ruled Palestine at that time.
Choosing to See the Forest
Rabbi Dov Fischer
December 14, 2000
Santa Clauses and tannenbaums and songs of a virgin mother and her infant. The songs are ubiquitous and cannot be escaped, whether at the malls or in the movie theaters or at the supermarket. The television programs all have special Christmas episodes. It really is quite everywhere.
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