Art Power
Alexis Sherman
November 26, 1998
Art may soothe the savage beast, as the saying goes, but can it get through to teen-agers?
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November 26, 1998
Honey, I Want a Divorce
Wendy J. Madnick
November 26, 1998
On Nov. 27, Jeff Brain, president of Valley VOTE, will be a very happy man. That\’s the day he gets to turn in the more than 195,000 signatures that will start the ball rolling on the San Fernando Valley seceding from the city of Los Angeles.
An Afternoon at the Motion Picture Retirement Home
Teresa Strasser
November 26, 1998
They were actors, set designers, writers, studio secretaries, directors. Now they\’re residents of the Motion Picture Retirement Home, a placid place tucked into a sleepy Woodland Hills neighborhood and dense with stories of Hollywood past.
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
November 26, 1998
When I was 16, my family picked up and moved from Santa Monica, where I had been born and raised, to Sacramento.
Hostile Intimidation
Eric Silver
November 26, 1998
Every Saturday afternoon, spot on 5 p.m., through the summer and into autumn, a squad of Jerusalem police clip-clopped on horseback past my house on Rehov Hanevi\’im, the Street of the Prophets.
The Idiot Box
Charles Marowitz
November 26, 1998
One of the most common complaints against television journalism is that it has deteriorated into entertainment.
A Talk About Death
Marlene Adler Marks
November 26, 1998
Leon Wieseltier did not want to talk about death. I, of course, wanted to talk about nothing else.
The Power of Israel
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
November 26, 1998
My name is Sarah — actually, it used to be Sarah, but that was before I went to Israel and experienced the best summer of my life. A summer that changed me forever.
This is Your Life
Rob Eshman
November 26, 1998
Very few people understand your world better than Neal Gabler.
Berkeley Comes to Israel
Larry Derfner
November 26, 1998
At the beginning of this week, dozens of Israeli university students entered the third week of their hunger strike. The country\’s 175,000 university students entered the second month of their strike from classes. Along the way students have been clubbed and even horsewhipped by police. They\’ve blocked major intersections in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. At times some have even demonstrated in the nude.
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