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October 28, 1999

Keiko Ibi’s “Personal” Journey

\”The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years,\” an 82-year-old man rinses out his dentures in his solitary apartment and longs for love and sex. Another elderly man laments that he has been impotent since receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
Selma, 73, discusses her sexless marriage, her affairs, the elderly man who tried to rape her and the hopelessness of living alone. \”Touching, it\’s what I miss,\” she confides. \”What I\’d really like is not the sex act itself. I just want to be held.\”

Wye Not

On Sept. 28 the Jewish representatives agreed, after an emotional 45-minute discussion, to do something they\’d never before dreamed of: vote against foreign aid.

Celebrating A Miracle

If you need proof that miracles still happen in this world, look no further than Benjamin Kadish.

Jews Must Be Careful When They Talk About Buchanan

Pat Buchanan, a conservative columnist who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996, has long been accused of anti-Semitism by columnists, politicians and Jewish organizations. It is a charge he denies.

Around Town

Recently, The Journal caught up with three comics whose Judaism informs their act and whose career informs their Judaism. Cathy Ladman quips about her intermarriage; Mark Schiff brings his comic pals to perform at an Orthodox shul fund-raiser; and Larry Miller views stand-up as Talmudic discourse.

Groundbreaking Cinema

In \”Hit and Runway,\” a straight Italian-American naif teams up with a gay Jew to write a screenplay. In \”Aimee & Jaguar,\” a Jewish woman and a Nazi\’s wife begin a torrid affair. In \”Man is a Woman,\” a gay man marries a woman, a Yiddish singer, who has never known a man.

Thus Spaketh Me…

A big part of being a parent is stumbling around by the feeble glow of midlife\’s night-light, going, \”Wha…? What happened?\” But after eight years of it, I\’m beginning to understand.

The October Dilemma

For many Jewish parents, who associate the holiday with demons, death and wickedness, as well as with Christianity, Halloween is problematic.

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