Lunda Hoyle Gill sat in her spare room at a Westwood assisted-living center, the last stop on her remarkable life journey.\n\nThe artist once traveled to the remotest parts of the globe, racing to paint indigenous peoples before they disappeared. But that was before cancer ravaged her gut and Parkinson\’s disease crippled her fingers. Today, at 72, the artist can no longer paint. She can barely walk or hold a spoon.
In an effort to give men facing prostate cancer a true understanding of the emotional and physical trials in store, Leon Prochnik spares no details.
It is only with tremendous effort that we can dissect the nature and components of the first systematic, industrialized, determined, ideologically inspired and directed effort to thoroughly eliminate a group of \”racially\” identified people.
The revelations in my book "IBM and the Holocaust" sprang upon the world Feb. 12. The book documented IBM\’s strategic business and consultative alliance with Nazi Germany beginning from the first moment of the Hitler regime in 1933 and continuing right into the war.
During the past few years, an effort has been made to retrieve women\’s devotional literature and present it to a contemporary Jewish world.
From her autobiography it is clear that sex and shopping have played an important role in Judith Krantz\’s actual life, too.
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.
For those who struggle with the concept of God, the primary issue is God\’s existence. Once established, one\’s belief in the divine informs other areas, such as the afterlife, reincarnation and resurrection.
You can find something for everybody in books available this holiday season.
Eventually, I promise you, the 2000 presidential election will end and the 2001 Los Angeles mayoral race will begin.
