The dynamics of the boiler room have levels of exploitation. While it functions as a concerted effort to part suckers from their money, the brokers are often not fully conscious of the complexity of the scam.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Vogler lived in Krakow, where he directed and produced documentary films. His life as a Jew in Poland was rather sedate.
Playwright Paula Vogel grew up in suburban Maryland, where the country clubs did not accept her Jewish father.
Who were the Nazi\’s victims? The Swiss-banks case has one definition. Other pending and future litigation may provide a fuller historical picture.
In \”Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith\” (Pantheon Books, $23.00), a gentle and touching memoir, Anne Lamott tells a variation of an old story:
I have just emerged from a four-day conversational jag with an old friend who was visiting me from New York.
Weekday mornings at 8:20, Judy Penso sets out for her office at a Jewish Community Center just outside San Francisco, where she runs the Marin County region of the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council.
A 1998 article about Chicago collector Stephen Durschslag\’s haggadah collection set the number of different haggadot on his shelves at 4,500, increasing almost daily.
Dear Jewish Journal: About five years ago, I ended a very serious relationship. I was devastated, but knew that my life could not end over this.
Once, a stranger approached Hillel and Shammai, the great sages of the first century, with a request: \”Teach me the Torah while I stand on one foot.\”
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