Torah Makes Dangerous Trek
Jeanine Mercer
December 16, 1999
A group of female Jewish scholars recently danced joyously with a 200-year-old Iraqi tradition — a Torah once held prisoner by Saddam Hussein.
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December 16, 1999
The Settlers of Golan
Avi Machlis
December 16, 1999
Emotions ranging from hope to uncertainty to anger fill the 16,000 Golan Heights residents as their fate is again the topic of Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Negotiations resumed Wednesday in Washington, and residents here know that the price for peace with Syria is likely to be the return of all or most of the Golan, the strategic plateau Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Towering “Inferno”
Michael Aushenker
December 16, 1999
It was a postcard-perfect Pasadena day on the beautiful grounds of the Huntington Library when Ronald E. Steen led 16 women on a descent into Hell.
Reflections on Joseph Heller
Sanford Pinsker
December 16, 1999
When you write a book-length study of a living author lots of things can happen; most of them are bad.
\”You\’ve missed a nuance here, a shading there,\” some will point out, in the iciest language possible, while others go straight to the jugular and angrily insist that you don\’t know beans about their work.
Joseph Heller, who passed away Dec. 13 at the age of 76, was a wonderful exception.
Letter to an Expecting Parent
Yehuda Lev
December 16, 1999
Dear Mr. Prime Minister;
By now you have certainly received thousands of congratulatory messages celebrating the good news that you and your wife, Cherie, are expecting a baby next summer.
Ten Years After the Wall
Ruth E. Gruber
December 16, 1999
Memories of lost family are conjured when walking in footsteps of the past
Olmos Connects
Marlene Adler Marks
December 16, 1999
Edward James Olmos wants to connect. Give him a large multi-ethnic crowd — as was on hand Sunday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles — and he\’ll split himself into pieces finding common links.
Choosing Judaism: My Father’s Story and My Own
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
December 16, 1999
At a recent Shabbat, a guest at our services asked the person staffing our welcome table, \”Is the rabbi here Jewish?\” What the person meant was, \”Is the rabbi a convert?\” Many have shared with me over the years, as our congregation has grown, that acquaintances of theirs have told them, on good authority, that Rabbi Finley \”is not really Jewish.\”
Seale on Syria
Eric Silver
December 16, 1999
Patrick Seale, President Hafez al-Assad\’s official biographer, predicted this week that Syria and Israel would conclude a comprehensive peace agreement within one year. Since Ehud Barak was elected six months ago, the veteran British Middle-East journalist has played a key role as the nearest to a Syrian emissary shuttling between the chronically hostile capitals of Damascus and Jerusalem.
Agreement Reached for Slave Laborers
Michael Shapiro
December 16, 1999
Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.
After months of torturous negotiations, an agreement has been reached to establish a $5.2 billion fund for these victims of the Holocaust, according to several lawyers and Jewish officials involved in the talks.
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