When Dr. William H. Parker talks, women listen. As chair of theobstetrics and gynecology department at Santa Monica-UCLA MedicalCenter and a clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, hisjob depends on being able to give clear, calm answers to the fraughtquestions of women\’s health: \”What\’s an abnormal period?\” \”What doPap smear results mean?\” \”What are the risks of a hysterectomy?\”
Child rearing, it turns out, is a relatively short-term project. The truth is that we don\’t have them for very long. Eighteen years, that\’s all. Eighteen years, from birth until they move away to Stanford. If your child is 5, you\’ve got 13 years left. If your child is 8, you\’ve got 10 years. If your child is 11,you\’ve got only seven years — just a few years to put them to bed with a story and a song, to make them breakfast, to stick artwork upon the fridge.
Brenner, a 57-year-old New York-born social worker, Reform Jew and feminist, is at the epicenter of the latest halachic earthquake shaking Israel. Her downstairs neighbor is Dov Dumbrovich, the Orthodox chairman of the local religious council, who is defying a Supreme Court ruling and refusing to let her take her seat on the council.
Linda Deutsch and Theo Wilson liveda cross the street from each other for most of the past 21 years. They were trial reporters who met in the Charles Manson courtroom, competitors and best friends. On Jan. 17, Wilson called Deutsch four times while anxiously awaiting the limo that was to take her from her Hollywood Hills home to a CBS interview — the official start ofpromotion for her new book, \”Headline Justice,\” which had taken her 10 years to complete.
We are rapidly approaching a momentous occasion — the 50th anniversary of Israel. It should be a time for unquestioned Jewish pride and Jewish unity. Yet this may not be the case.
My mother called to give me an update on my aunt Ruthie\’s condition. She had a cancer-spotted kidney removed a few days ago,and the family Jew-Ex was hot with medical reports. My mother, whose curse it was to be the firstborn, was cursed a second time by havinga daughter who she used to liken to her sister Ruth whenever I stepped out of line — which was often, according to my mother.Ruthie\’s curse was to be born two years after my mother and to neverhave had a daughter.
Labor Party leader Ehud Barak said that unless the opposition waited a decent interval before attacking Netanyahu politically, \”it could be interpreted as if we were defending Arafat, even though this is not true — we are defending the State of Israel.\”
It turns out that there are more Jews in the South Bay than many had imagined — about 45,000, according to a just-released population study by the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles.
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