The CIA’s Dark Secrets
Matthew Dorf
April 29, 1999
A Jewish attorney on forced leave from the CIA has decided to file a lawsuit that claims that rampant anti-Semitism at the spy agency has destroyed his career.
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April 29, 1999
Moe’s Juggling Act
Jewish Journal
April 29, 1999
Identity becomes destiny. As Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations for nearly a decade, Mohamed Sacirbey now plays a unique role as a bridge between the disparate worlds that shaped him.
Questions for the Board Room
Jewish Journal
April 29, 1999
Which leads me to the question that started this rumination in the first place: Are we in Los Angeles so large and diverse a Jewish community that there is more that separates than unites us?
‘Littleton Didn’t Just ‘Happen Overnight’
Jewish Journal
April 29, 1999
Jonathan Kellerman began researching child violence for an Op-Ed piece in USA Today, and continued to study it when Ballantine approached him to write a book on the subject.
‘No Irony but Only Tragedy’
Jewish Journal
April 29, 1999
\”How could my son be a Nazi?\” Susan Yassenoff Klebold, Dylan\’s mother, said at the funeral, according to Marxhausen. \”He\’s half Jewish, and the seder is practiced in our home. He was still complaining about having to say the Four Questions.\”
Community Briefs
Jewish Journal
April 29, 1999
Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.
Notes on L.A.’s Book Fair
Naomi Glauberman
April 29, 1999
The lawns and quadrangles of UCLA this weekend looked like a great renaissance bazaar, with banners flying and rows of white tents lining the walkways.
A Note of Appreciation
Michael Aushenker
April 29, 1999
Charles Feldman remembers Los Angeles as a city burgeoning with new synagogues but not a lot of innovative liturgical music at the time he began his career.
A Mortuary Comes to Life
Naomi Pfefferman
April 29, 1999
The story of Chevra Kadisha Mortuary and its significance to Los Angeles\’ observant community is an ongoing saga of crime, punishment and redemption surrounding an institution that deals with one of the most holy times in the Jewish life cycle.
Is Yom Ha’atzmaut Taking a Beating?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
April 29, 1999
There was a time when all you had to do for Yom Ha\’atzmaut was play a Naomi Shemer song and plunk a couple falafel balls into a pita, and Jews would swarm into a hora, waving their plastic flags, tears in their eyes and lumps in their throats.
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