Here\’s the scene I most remember when I think about moving here from San Francisco: I\’m in my $385-a-month apartment, which is furnished only with a monolithic file cabinet I rescued from my uncle\’s garage and a day bed suited for a small child.
It is remarkable how many great Jewish American writers first came to the public\’s attention through a volume of short stories.
Asserting the moral high ground and evoking biblical imagery, Jewish labor activists announced at the AFL-CIO\’s national convention here in Los Angeles last weekend a new interfaith campaign to protect worker\’s rights.
Last week I spoke to a large crowd of parents at a \”Jewish Day School Expo\” at Milken Community High School. Most of the parents didn\’t know what schools were available or where they were located. But they were eager indeed.
The Milken Community High School celebrated the completion of its campus construction Sunday, putting the final touches on the nation\’s largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school — and its most high-tech — bar none.
Now that I am a septuagenarian, I still have trouble understanding the phrase \”Jewish Republican\” used by Kurtzman, and many others. Help me. Just what is a \”Jewish Republican\”?
\”What my father experienced at Dachau framed everything he did later in life,\” Nina says, citing his portraits of Spanish Civil War refugees, Mexican migrant workers and residents of the South Bronx. \”He spent his entire life trying to prove that all races had to be championed.\” Walter\’s stories of Dachau motivated Nina to make \”Liberators\” in 1992. \”My father taught me that it is never art for art\’s sake,\” she says. \”It\’s art to combat evil.\”
What kind of Jew are you? Reform? Conservative? Orthodox? Secular? Cultural? Reconstructionist? With whom do you identify? With whom do you disagree? What kind of Jew is so different that you would have nothing to share?
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