July 8, 1999

Their Right of Passage

Michele Chabin July 8, 1999

Hundreds of Israeli children celebrate their bar and bat mitzvahs every week, and 13-year-old Asher Gorsky did not want to be an exception.

Report from Washington D.C.

James Besser July 8, 1999

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) isn\’t Jewish, but this week\’s political about-face by the Long Island lawmaker reflected a mounting problem for Jewish backers of Texas Gov. George Bush.

While cities such as Detroit and St. Louis were holding major Jewish book festivals year after year, drawing celebrity authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, observers here asked, Why isn\’t there a Jewish book festival in Los Angeles?

Once Again, Anti-Semitism

Jewish Journal July 8, 1999

How worried should we be? The question refers, of course, to the rapid succession of hate crimes that have hit the front pages of newspapers across America.

Polls Apart

Jewish Journal July 8, 1999

You\’ve probably heard about that recent poll of American Jewish opinion, the one that told us American Jews consider anti-Semitism a greater threat to Jewish life than intermarriage. It\’s caused quite a stir.