\”Do they all have to be Italian?\”
This is the question the network executive asked the creator of \”Everybody Loves Raymond\” as they were casting Ray Romano\’s family.
We currently seem more perplexed than ever by the challenge of child rearing, by the dynamics involved in the \”generation gap\” that has led to the current gory headlines.
The Sephardic Shas Party, which had threatened to pull its 17 Knesset members out of the coalition if the turbine rolled, was left spluttering with indignation. National Infrastructure Minister Eli Suissa, who spearheaded resistance to the move, branded it \”unprecedented chutzpah.\”
In recognition of some of the year\’s bizarre antics from around the Jewish world, here\’s a gaggle of awards and observations.
The rally brought together national, state and local officials to honor the heroes and victims of last week\’s shooting rampage in Granada Hills.
\”As a Jew, I felt an extreme amount of anger and outrage that Jews had been attacked,\” says Kalish, 46. \”I also felt frustration, as a police officer, that we knew the identity of the suspect, but we hadn\’t yet caught up with him. Yet I did feel a certain amount of optimism and relief that so many people had come together to address the issue.\”
Shoshana, a preschool teacher at the North Valley JCC, looked down a hallway into the barrel of Buford Furrow\’s submachine gun.
For Lois Weinsaft, the Aug. 10 shooting spree at the North Valley Jewish Community Center (NVJCC) hit close to home.
Nevertheless, Los Angeles Police Department sources insist that anti-Semitic crime in the city is low. \”We\’ve had one very tragic incident, but this kind of hate crime is not an epidemic,\” says Cmdr. Margaret York, LAPD hate crimes coordinator. \”In fact, just the opposite is true.\”
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