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May 1, 1997

Achre 5757

Rabbi Ed Feinstein May 1, 1997

A couple with whom I\’m close had their first child, so I ran to the bookstore to get them our favorite book on child care. I had forgotten the exact title (it was always \”the baby book\”) and the author\’s name, so I thought I\’d just scan the shelf until it turned up. Shelf? Try shelves — six of them, each 8 feet long and 10 feet high, and all on parenting. Need advice on building self-esteem, teaching morals, successful potty-training? There are volumes to teach it.

‘The Threepenny Opera’ Exceeds Its Grasp

Jewish Journal May 1, 1997

In its five years of existence, A Noise Within, the classical-theater company, has given audiences many of the most enjoyable performances to be offered anywhere in Los Angeles.

Palestinian Angst

Eric Silver May 1, 1997

Despite its propaganda success in the United Nations General Assembly, where 134 countries last weekend denounced Israeli construction on the disputed Har Homa site in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority is in despair over the stagnant peace process.

Finding Our Place

Marlene Adler Marks May 1, 1997

My daughter and I were driving through Koreatown again. Five years had passed since the first Rodney King verdict, since the riots, since the day we\’d first driven these same streets, with their smoldering buildings and the militia standing guard. She noted every new building and every lot that remained vacant.\n

LettersPeace Now

Jewish Journal May 1, 1997

Rob Eshman caught the mood of frustration and concern that was evident at Jerry Bubis\’ home at a recent meeting of our local Peace Now leadership. This concern is born of the destructive strategies and tactics of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. With the change in election laws it is likely that Netanyahu will be in power for another three years. He has been called Israel\’s Teflon prime minister because so little of the accusations of sleaze, misjudgment and actions just this side of criminal sticks to him.\n

Music Men

Tom Tugend May 1, 1997

Shortly after the Oslo peace process got underway, composer Nabil Azzam met with Yasser Arafat and offered the Palestinian leader a new national anthem for his nascent Palestinian Authority.\n

Innocence Lost

Diane Arieff May 1, 1997

Little girls at a San Fernando Valley Jewish preschool report for circle time in midriff tops and lipstick. In Hollywood, a teen-ager acquires a tattoo, a designer backpack and a baby within a year of her arrival here from rural El Salvador. A \”soccer mom\” at a park in Van Nuys chats blithely about buying her 17-year-old daughter breast implants for her birthday. \”This is the real world,\” she says in response to my look of disbelief.

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.

f.y.i. / local report Good Hearts

Jewish Journal May 1, 1997

Steven S. Cohen was a hard-working businessman, a good friend and the father of two young girls, ages 2 and 5, when he suffered a massive heart attack during a game of weekend basketball and died. He was 35.\n

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