The Boom Years
Rob Eshman
May 29, 1997
If you look out the window of Room 120 at Sinai Akiba Academy, you\’ll see a hole. The hole is the size of a city block.
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After the
Rob Eshman
May 22, 1997
The most astonishing account in Hector Feliciano\’s always-astonishing new nonfiction book, \”The Lost Museum\” (Basic Books), follows Adolf Hitler on a visit to the Paris Opera House on June 28, 1940, the Führer\’s first, and only, visit to the city.
Up Front
Rob Eshman
May 22, 1997
At the Dixieland Jubilee in Sacramento, the annual super bowl of jazz, the band that got the most ecstatic reception a couple of years ago was cradled a few thousand miles east of New Orleans.\n\nIt was the Jerusalem Jazz Band, whose members hail each other by such fine old Southern names as Boris, Mika, Shmulik, Stanislav and Aaron.
Eastward Ho
Jewish Journal
May 8, 1997
From where Phillip Liff-Grieff sits — literally — the Jewish community is looking better all the time.\n
Taking on the Bible
Jewish Journal
May 8, 1997
Remember that great scene in \”Inherit the Wind,\” when Clarence Darrow asks William Jennings Bryan if a book that details rape, incest, slaughter, nudity and sodomy should be banned? The fundamentalist Bryan answers, \”Of course!\” and Darrow, with a flourish, whips out a copy of the Bible and declares, \”Then you must ban this book!\”
UJ Layoffs
Jewish Journal
May 1, 1997
The last days of the Passover holiday brought a shocking message to 14 faculty and staff members at the University of Judaism: They\’re laid off.
Filing His Claim
Jewish Journal
May 1, 1997
A payment slip from 1927, part of the documentary evidence to support Freddy Jackson\’s claim. Sitting in the Fairfax Avenue deli where he worked for four decades of his life, Freddy Jackson reflects on his chances of getting the millions of dollars due him.
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