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April 27, 2000
Steered by Fate
Miller has said that he wrote \”All the Luck\” as \”a kind of myth … that pays attention to the process of fate,\” and he posits in the play that excessive good fortune can unhinge a man as easily as overwhelming misfortune.
Aural History
It sounds like a no-brainer: an audio documentary featuring firsthand Holocaust survivor accounts.
Jewish Research Calling
If you get a phone call in the next few months from a stranger with lots of questions, don\’t assume it\’s a telemarketer.
Don’t Forget Israel’s Fallen
During May, both the United States and Israel will mark their respective Memorial Days. While the American version will have many remembrance events, most people will spend the day at barbecues, picnics or at the beach. This is not the case in Israel.
A Flame of Remembrance
This Sunday marks the eighth year that the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument in Pan Pacific Park will serve as the local centerpiece of the annual Worldwide Holocaust Memorial Day, in memory of the 6 million Jews who were murdered in Europe at the hands of the Nazi regime. Hosted this year by the Los Angeles Holocaust Memorial Monument Fund, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Second Generation, the Yom HaShoah gathering is expected to attract more than 2,500 people.
It’s Shuki’s World and We Just Live In It…
As he breezes into a Melrose trattoria, the international man of mystery known as Shuki could be mistaken for any other player in town — cell phone in hand, expensive suit, hardball negotiator demeanor — were it not for the long shock of Gene Simmons rock star hair tied back in a tail that betrays his youth.
Selling AWACS to China
Chinese President Jiang Zemin donned his black kippah and followed in Pope John Paul II\’s footsteps to the Western Wall last week, confident that the world\’s biggest atheistic state would soon receive a $250 million airborne surveillance system from Israel Aircraft Industries on schedule. Despite intense American pressure to cancel the deal, the signs are that he will receive the other three or four AWACS he also wants to buy.
Capturing History and Hope on Film
\”History holds a magical power over me,\” says Laura Bialis, the 26-year-old producer of \”Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit,\” the award-winning documentary that will be shown on KCET on Tues., May 2 at 10:30 p.m. and screened at the University of Judaism\’s Gindi Auditorium on Thurs., May 3, at 7 p.m.
Counting Our Days
\”Ima, how old am I today?\”
My oldest son\’s sixth birthday is coming soon. Recently, he has developed a near obsession with calculating exactly how old he is on a daily basis, practically down to the hour. Of course he is hardly unique. From our earliest years, we humans feel the compulsion to mark the passing of time, to define who we are by counting our years and months and days.
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