For anyone driving past the consulate\’s Wilshire Boulevard headquarters, the Crusade protest is a familiar sight.Every morning, marchers circle, carrying signs broadcasting messages like \”Germany says YES to a police state.\”
In that funky old Synergy School — now a Noe Valley laundromat — we could do what we wanted (unless it involved littering or hurting someone\’s feelings).
Have we the tools to meet the impending crises of environmental degradation, population explosion, nuclear proliferation, international terrorism, ethnic and racial slaughter?
Properly run, supporters say, the court could serve as a deterrent to the kinds of horrifying atrocities seen in Bosnia and Rwanda.
Reading about the Federation-sponsored 1997 Jewish Population Survey in last week\’s Journal, I realized once again just how much charts and graphs and statistical surveys resemble novels.
As I have traveled the communal philanthropic \”circuit\” this year, I have been moved to ponder who gets the most out of our enterprise: those who are receiving communal service or those who are volunteering their time and other resources to assure that those in need will benefit?
For Arafat, it was an admission of unmitigated weakness, a move that was clearly borne out of dire necessity.
While scholars argue about the origin of the adult bar mitzvah (or bat mitzvah) ceremony, there\’s no question that over the last two decades it has been growing in popularity, primarily for those who had never undergone the ritual as a 13-year-old.
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