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September 23, 1999

How to account for the different stories

Jewish Journal September 23, 1999

I read Gary Rosenblatt\’s indictment of Los Angeles\’ rabbinate with some unease. It did not square with my understanding of what had occurred in the aftermath of the shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. Accounts from our reporter, Julie Gruenbaum Fax, suggested that the community as a whole, the rabbis included, had come forward to lend support, both moral and practical. However, it was his view that the 100,000-plus readers of The Jewish Week of New York took away from the events of that tragic day.

Rough Justice

Jewish Journal September 23, 1999

Some advice for the new year: Don\’t get into trouble in New Jersey. The judges there are really tough.\nHow tough? Well, they\’ve got Barry Fisher rattled, and that isn\’t easy. A Los Angeles human-rights lawyer, Fisher has tussled with some of the toughest of the tough. But those New Jersey judges are something else.\n\nLast week, two federal judges in Newark separately decided to throw two Holocaust-related lawsuits out of court. Kaput. Both cases were class-action lawsuits by Holocaust survivors against German companies that used them as slave laborers. Both judges decided, for different reasons, that the cases couldn\’t be tried in court. This could be trouble.

A Minyan in the Outfield

Jewish Journal September 23, 1999

From his office in Pico-Robertson, Ephraim Moxson counts Jewish professional athletes. There are five playing in the National Hockey League, a couple in the National Basketball Assn., four in the National Football League. But in Major League Baseball, there will be, by the end of 1999, 11 Jewish ballplayers. \”That\’s more than any decade, even the 1960s,\” says Moxson, co-publisher of the Jewish Sports Review.\nWhich raises two questions: Why so many Jews in the majors? And why should we care?

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