Chiming In
Avi Machlis
July 22, 1999
The Religious Women\’s Forum grappled with subjects that ranged from the role of women in the synagogue to the difficulties in obtaining divorces.
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July 22, 1999
Cedars-Sinai Among America’s Best
Naomi Pfefferman
July 22, 1999
For the second year in a row, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center topped the list of non-university Southern California hospitals, according to a U.S. News & World survey.
Skirball’s Sephardic Festival
Naomi Pfefferman
July 22, 1999
When you grow up in the States, all you know is Ashkenazi Jewish culture,\” laments Moroccan-Jewish musician Ron Elkayam. \”But that is such a small part of the continuum of Jewish life.\”
A Timeless Hollywood Tale
Tom Tugend
July 22, 1999
\”Merton of the Movies,\” the wonderfully funny production at the Geffen Playhouse, shows that not all that much has changed in Hollywood since the comedy\’s première in 1922.
An Argument for Jewish Vegetarianism
Jane Ulman
July 22, 1999
Despite our modern obsession with nutrition and health, vegetarianism isn\’t anything new. It\’s been around, well, since Adam and Eve.
Shall We Send a Fox into the Henhouse?
Gideon Kanner
July 22, 1999
We haven\’t seen such a fuss in the local newspaper in quite a while. The Los Angeles Times and the editor of this newspaper have taken up cudgels in support of — are you ready? — a man who, for the past decade, has been mixing his \”moderate\” statements on the slaughter of civilians in the Middle East with thinly disguised justifications of these bloody deeds.
Iranian Jewish Prisoners ‘On Hold’
Tom Tugend
July 22, 1999
In general, the Jewish community in Iran is caught between two battling factions, and the fate of the 13 prisoners may well depend on which one prevails in the end.
Barak Wows Washington
James D
July 22, 1999
A self-confident Prime Minister Ehud Barak dazzled administration Mideast policy-makers during his inaugural official visit to Washington this week — and reshuffled the American Jewish deck by elevating a pro-peace process group to the top rung of the communal hierarchy.
House of Memory
Naomi Pfefferman
July 22, 1999
For Chilean-Jewish author and activist Marjorie Agosin, to be a Latin American Jew is to live forever in exile, to be \”always from somewhere else.\”\nHer 1990 memoir, \”A Cross and a Star,\” tells the story of her mother\’s family, which escaped the Holocaust only to settle in a remote Chilean town with 50 Nazis and three Jewish families.
Conquering A Disease
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
July 22, 1999
Los Angeles residents Pam and George Smith never expected to create a foundation that would raise more than $4 million for research.
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