Old Stories Archives – Page 82 of 239

Furrow, Security and Hate

Tom Tugend August 26, 1999

Buford O. Furrow Jr. will be tried first in federal court on charges of murdering a U.S. postal carrier.

Jennifer Maisel, who\’s been described as \”David Lynch with estrogen,\” explores child abuse, insanity, suicide, rape. In \”Mating Season,\” a young man sets out to supply all the local sperm banks. In \”Mad Love,\” a 13-year-old girl begs a Christmas-tree salesman to rescue her from her incestuous father. Now comes \”Eden,\” the tale of a suicidal woman with AIDS who withdraws from her friends and her optimistic mother, a Holocaust survivor.

The Man Behind a Quiet Revolution

Julie Gruenbaum Fax August 26, 1999

By the end of his first year at HUC in Cincinnati, Rabbi Richard Levy was well on his way to keeping kosher, to wearing a kippah full-time and to observing a traditional Shabbat.

The On-Ramp to Meaning

Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer August 26, 1999

In Los Angeles, the hardest part of starting a big trip can be getting from the entrance ramp onto the freeway.

Fennel & Spice & Everything Nice

Leilah Bernstein August 26, 1999

Zane\’s claims, after all, to keep the only Glatt kosher sausage factory in Los Angeles. And the place is so spotlessly clean you\’d be surprised all sorts of meats are prepared right there. \”The Orthodox come in,\” said Mr. Price, 57, a Sabra with a thick Israeli accent, \”and say they haven\’t seen anything like this — not even in New York!\”