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Israel\’s newest weapon in its battle for economic well-being andworldwide acceptance is a tall, thin New Yorker with a great lambrecipe.\n\nHer name is Rozanne Gold.
The Sunflower
The story itself is a laconic autobiographical statement that not only describes Wiesenthal\’s experience as camp inmate, but joins that experience to an excruciating ethical question about forgiveness. Now that Simon Wiesenthal is a legend and an icon, his modest story seems larger, somehow, and the republication of the book is a kind of commandment to read it again.
Heartbreak Hotel?
The Miramar Sheraton Hotel is one of the jewels of Santa Monica.It sits astride a full block on Ocean Avenue and looks west, over thePalisades and the blue Pacific. Inside, there are lush gardens, aluxurious swimming pool and tanned guests who look as if they areemblems of Southern California.\n\nThe hotel is where President Clinton has often stayed duringvisits to Los Angeles.\n\nAnd the Miramar Sheraton is the only Santa Monica hotel that isunionized.
Remembering the ‘Rescuers’
Director Peter Bogdanovich is best-known for \”The Last PictureShow,\” \”Paper Moon\” and other films that explore the Americanexperience.\n\nHe is also known for his affairs with youthful, blond andquintessentially American sex symbols: a radiant, 22-year-old CybillShepherd from \”The Last Picture Show\”; the glamorous but doomedPlayboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, murdered in 1980 by herestranged husband; and Stratten\’s younger sister, an actress thegrieving Bogdanovich began mentoring at the age of 13 and marriedseven years later.
Jewish Values That You Can Dance To
It\’s only in recent decades that \”children\’smusic\” has mushroomed into a separate growth industry, complete withits own concert tours, TV tie-in shows and recognizable stars.
On Valor, Violinists and Vacations
As Berlin bureau chief for the Boston Globe in the late 1980s andearly 1990s, Kaufman traveled widely and tracked the stories andmemories of four Jews and one Catholic, and their families, duringthe momentous 51 years.
Kirk Douglas’ Greatest Role
\”The Torah is the greatest screenplay ever written,\” Kirk Douglas says. \”Ithas passion, incest, murder, adultery — really everything.\”
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