Justice for Jonathan Pollard
Jewish Journal
June 19, 1997
The argument that Pollard was a spy, and that is all that matters, may be legally valid, but it is not morally valid.
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Labor’s Move Toward Center
Eric Silver
June 12, 1997
After a year of licking the wounds of electoral defeat, the Israeli left has crowned a new leader who radiates an aura of victory and an appetite for power. The campaign of the year 2000 has begun.
Netanyahu’s First Anniversary
Ina Friedman
May 29, 1997
As the first anniversary of Binyamin Netanyahu\’s election as prime minister approached this week, Israel looked back on a tumultuous year in which the public was more sharply divided and over a wider span of issues — political, social, and religious — than ever before.
The Great Mulholland Divide
Tom Tugend
May 22, 1997
When I was a UCLA student, some…uh…50 years ago and lived in Hollywood, I thought nothing of picking up a date in Boyle Heights, but I wouldn\’t even consider going out with a girl from the San Fernando Valley.\n
A Swiss Twist
Tom Tugend
May 15, 1997
There lurks an almost unbearable irony in the appointment of UCLA Professor Saul Friedlander to an international commission of nine eminent historians that will probe, evaluate and ultimately judge Switzerland\’s role and conduct during World War II and the Holocaust era.
Eastward Ho
Jewish Journal
May 8, 1997
From where Phillip Liff-Grieff sits — literally — the Jewish community is looking better all the time.\n
L.A.’s Kabbalah Learning Center seems to attract many searching Jews, but criticism of it is widespr
Rob Eshman
February 15, 1997
Mike Gold* had a successful small business, a nice home, a wife and two kids when he began to wonder about his soul. Questions about life\’s meaning, about God and spirituality and his Jewish heritage would not go away. \”I started studying Judaism by myself, and I realized,\” he said, \”I didn\’t know anything.\”
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