Fighting Hate Groups
Gov. Gray Davis has proposed far-reaching legislation to combat hate groups, which, he said, pose a \”very serious threat to public safety.\”
Gov. Gray Davis has proposed far-reaching legislation to combat hate groups, which, he said, pose a \”very serious threat to public safety.\”
Voters frequently complain about being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils when it comes to candidates for public office.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has placed his latest bet in the strange and frustrating poker game between Israel and Syria.
When it comes to the Jewish vote in next Tuesday\’s 13-state primary, George W. Bush is a dead man.
The Israel Philharmonic has always been an orchestra of immigrants.
Where others saw three Orthodox women in groundbreaking careers and stylish hats, Rachel Pollack, 17, perceived something more. She had found role models.
On a moody February morning, at his favorite Westside delicatessen, Ozzie Goren is picking at his scrambled egg whites as he issues another sound statement.
When a 30-something British financial investment manager took a few years off to study Jewish texts in Israel, he was struck by the differences between the financial and Jewish communal worlds.
California\’s ballot initiatives have been making laws and national headlines since 1911. Designed by Governor Hiram Johnson to take politics directly to the people and over the heads of a corrupt legislature, the initiative process often focuses on populist issues. California voters have used their votes to spotlight issues across the political gamut from environmental concerns (Proposition 65) to property taxes (Proposition 13) to immigration (Proposition 187) to affirmative action (Proposition 209), campaign finance reform (Proposition 208), and legal gambling (Proposition 5) .