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Books
The Fires This Time
This is a story of rebuilding family, of returning to Judaism.
The Senator and the Author
The meat of the book, \”A Will to Live On: This Is Our Heritage,\” is a review of the 3,000-year history of the Jewish community, the heritage that Joseph Lieberman believes is threatened and in great peril.
Challenging Evil
\”This battle came and found me,\” said Deborah Lipstadt. \”Had I not fought, he would have won by default. He then would have been able to say that he was correct. I decided to fight it with all my strength and all my might. Not fighting was never an option, to let evil go unchallenged.\”
Flesh and Fiction
Things as they are, the modernist poet Wallace Stevens liked to point out, become changed when played on a \”blue guitar.\” What his metaphor meant to describe was nothing more nor less than the transforming power of the imagination.
People Of The Book
For the Jewish Community Relations Committee (JCRC) and its parent organization, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, this day is a major victory. The Dodgers\’ $84 million star player has just held a press conference announcing his new role as spokesperson for KOREH L.A., an exciting culmination for the first year of JCRC\’s new literacy program.
Yoram Hazony and Zionism
There is something touching in Hazony\’s underlying thesis: that Israeli Jews have lost contact with the guiding ideal of Zionism; namely, the belief in the existence of a Jewish state.
Capturing Life’s Inner Journey On Film
Eric Lawton\’s latest collection of photographs, with text by Phil Cousineau, evokes the age-old enigma of where the soul resides.
Will We Line a Murderer’s Pockets?
Fortunately, California Civil Code section 2225 forbids convicted felons from reaping such profits. Our state\’s law is based on New York\’s \”Son of Sam\” law, enacted to prevent David Berkowitz, a social miscreant, from selling a book and movie rights about his 1977 New York City murder spree.
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