Inspiration Points
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 24, 1998
\”Yiddishkayt Los Angeles\” is returning this month with an eight-day fete, \”Yiddishkayt! A Celebration for All Ages — The New Face of an Enduring Culture.\”
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September 24, 1998
Twenty Years and Counting
Tom Tugend
September 24, 1998
With 400,000 dues-paying families, it claims to be the largest Jewish membership organization anywhere and has evolved from a self-defined Center for Holocaust Studies into what Hier says is \”a human rights organization… that fights intolerance and anti-Semitism around the world.\”
Keeping Score
Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
September 24, 1998
Shabbat Shuvah usually serves more as a reminder of what we already know about our lives than as a wake-up call to something we have yet to discover — unless there is an entire category of sin, a world of transgression and failure that each of us is guilty of but never considered.
Haunting Visages
Naomi Pfefferman
September 24, 1998
The show is the artist\’s first major West Coast exhibit in three decades.
War and Remembrance
Michael Aushenker
September 24, 1998
Israel and its Arab neighbors are still feeling the effects, militarily, politically and psychologically, of the coordinated Egyptian-Syrian surprise attacks and of the desperate Israeli struggle to drive the invading forces back across the Suez Canal and the Golan Heights.
Police Get Lessons on Jewish Observance
Ruth Stroud
September 24, 1998
The citywide program was instituted several years ago by the Jewish Federation\’s Jewish Community Relations Committee at the request of a police officer.
Strangers No More
Marlene Adler Marks
September 24, 1998
Each Yom Kippur, a vestigial loneliness creeps over me. I achingly feel that my parents and family are back East; that my cousins live in Japan; that some of my dearest are dead. On this day, dispersion and alienation seeps in, and I cling to my community like fog to the shore. And this is the way it should be.
Kenneth Bob
Jewish Journal
September 24, 1998
Kenneth Bob, a software executive from Long Island,N.Y., is registered to vote in this month\’s World Zionist Congress elections, but he\’s having a hard time deciding how to cast his ballot.
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