Famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who just turned 90, still leaves his modest home in Vienna several times a week to work at his Jewish Documentation Center, which is located in a nondescript, sparsely furnished, three-room office 100 yards from the former Gestapo headquarters.
In 1961, a saddened and disheartened 23-year-old Algerian school teacher and musician named Gaston Ghenassia was merely one of the thousands of refugees on a ship bound for France, leaving his homeland in the aftermath of the Algerian Revolution. Little did he know at the time how defining a moment it was to become in his life.
The community colleges, like the rest of the state\’s once-stellar educational complex, have been ignored for some 20 years, which is why Tuesday\’s Los Angeles election deserves our attention.
There was something haunting about taking the train. The aged boxcars on a parallel track seemed frozen in time. I quieted my thoughts. After all, the train was a necessary evil. This bitter irony was not lost on me as the train sped from Munich to Dachau on probably the very same tracks that led thousands of innocent people to their deaths more than a half-century ago.
It was March 31, the first night of Passover, and his native Yugoslavia was again convulsed by war.
\”Hit him back!\” my husband Larry and I occasionally advise our sons. \”Really? Can I?\” each answer, incredulously.
I am a comedian and I have been lucky enough to have worked in my business for 20 years. This is a huge thing because most people in comedy never even work 20 days in 20 years. I have also been blessed to be part of a great group of comedians who have emerged in that time. Three of them are not just my peers, but also good friends. I both love and respect them as comedians and as human beings. Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser and Larry Miller.
This past summer, while leading a Jewish Heritage tour through Central and Eastern Europe, we spent Shabbat in the beautiful city of Prague.
On Fox\’s breakout comedy, \”That \’70s Show,\” Mila Kunis plays spoiled and sassy Jackie Burkhardt. But, in real life, she\’s very much a child of the \’90s, down to her fascination with the Internet.
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