Hungarian Haven
Michael J
April 1, 1999
In other circumstances, there would be nothing unusual about busloads of Yugoslavs visiting the capital of their northern neighbor, Hungary.
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April 1, 1999
A Natural History
Naomi Pfefferman
April 1, 1999
It is a rainy day at the Jack Rutberg Fine Arts gallery on La Brea, but Ruth Weisberg, the artist and art educator, is gazing at a painting where it is perpetually summer.
Web Hate Sites Proliferating
Lev Krichevsky
April 1, 1999
The growth of hate sites on the World Wide Web is staggering, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
‘Not Bad For a Goy’
Naomi Pfefferman
April 1, 1999
For many Jews watching the 71st Academy Awards last week, the telecast surely scaled new heights of Hollywood surrealism, as the ceremony seemed to honor an unusually disproportionate preponderance of films with Jewish content and their non-Jewish creators.
My Mental Celebrity Database
Teresa Strasser
April 1, 1999
Sandra Bullock, get out of my head. Look, it\’s nothing personal. I\’m sure you\’re a really nice person, and it\’s not like you\’re untalented. And despite the fact that I\’m not particularly a fan of yours, I seem to know everything about you.
‘I Was Wrong about Netanyahu’
Eric Silver
April 1, 1999
Of all the Likud loyalists who have walked out on Binyamin Netanyahu, last week\’s defection of Gen. Yossi Peled is arguably the most damaging.
God Willing
Marlene Adler Marks
April 1, 1999
My parents took a trip to Las Vegas, last month which meant they wouldn\’t be joining us for Passover.
A Weekend of ‘Kosher Sex’
Michael Aushenker
April 1, 1999
In these scandalous times, is there anything left to say about sex?
Preserving History
Naomi Pfefferman
April 1, 1999
In Persis Knobbe\’s sweet, semi-autobiogrpahical short story, \”Highlights,\” Morris, an octogenarian, describes his exodus from the oppressive old country, on the holiday that commemorates the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt.
An Extra- Ordinary Place
Ruth Stroud
April 1, 1999
Mordecai Finley is no ordinary rabbi; nor an ordinary man either, for that matter.
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