The Kubrick Legacy
Ivor Davis
March 18, 1999
The news of director Stanley Kubrick\’s death in England is a premature finis to an unprecedented career in film.
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March 18, 1999
Just in Time
Marlene Adler Marks
March 18, 1999
ff, the guy from the party rental place, left this phone message two weeks ago:
\”Passover is March 31,\” he said, \”and, say Marlene, you always call us the last minute. Do you think you might plan a bit ahead this time?\”
Focus on Forensics
David Margolis
March 18, 1999
Barry Fisher, director of the Los Angeles County Sheriff\’s Department crime laboratory, showed up in Jerusalem this week, invited by the Israeli Police Department to give a couple of lectures and the benefit of his 30 years\’ experience to the forensics people of the Jewish state. In a wood-paneled room at National Police Headquarters, along with about 25 Israeli police officers, I caught his second lecture, \”Forensic Science After O.J. Simpson.\” (I will assume that, despite so many breathlessly absorbing high-profile murders and sex scandals since then, you still vaguely remember O.J. Simpson.)
Skirball Hosts Passover Festival
Naomi Pfefferman
March 18, 1999
At noon on Sunday the Passover Posse will tromp through the lobby of the Skirball Cultural Center.
Principal Targets
Wendy J. Madnick
March 18, 1999
August\’s North Valley Jewish Community Center shooting is still on the minds of parents and educators.
A Reminder: Slavery Still Exists
Lori Schneide
March 18, 1999
Hundreds of people turned out for the Simon Weisenthal Center Museum of Tolerance\’s one-day symposium, \”A Call to Freedom.\” The conference, held last month, highlighted the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today, \”tens of thousands of blacks are sold into slavery, raised like slaves and have the deadened expressions of men and women who know no other life but the life of a slave,\” said Sam Cotton, author of \”Silent Terror,\” a book describing his secret trip to Mauritania where he interviewed slaves.
When You Haven’t Got a Prayer
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
March 18, 1999
They sat like any other family in the noisy restaurant, trading conversation, stories, tales of the day past. But when the waiter brought their meal, something remarkable happened: The conversation stopped, hands were extended and grasped to form a circle around the table, eyes closed, and a quiet prayer was whispered.
A Priceless Day
Teresa Strasser
March 18, 1999
You have three goals for your Sunday: wash your car, wash your clothes, wash yourself.
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