When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak travels to the United States for meetings May 21-23, he\’ll leave behind faltering peace talks, a government in jeopardy and violent flare-ups with the Palestinians.
I never thought I\’d find myself in any place called \”The Winner\’sRoom,\” mingling with soap opera stars and clutching a huge gold statue.
There is a grimy Arabic sign high on the wall of the imposing new building rising on a rocky, ragged hillside in the West Bank village of Abu Dis.
It all began when Steve Cisneros, as an 11th grader at La Mirada High School, was exposed to the plays of his English teacher, Bruce Gevirtzman.
A rabbi in a small community in pre-Holocaust Europe experienced rabbinic burn-out. No matter what he did, no one seemed to appreciate it.
Stan Cline remembers Los Angeles. He remembers Gilmore Field and the Pan Pacific Theater that stoodmajestically near the Farmers Market.
On a warm early summer afternoon in Meron, a hilltop village in the Galilee in northern Israel, the sun dangles like a big white bulb.
Janet\’s nightmare began when her 14-year-old daughter, Susan, began to earn failing grades, use drugs and exhibit the first violent signs of emerging bipolar disorder.
Much has changed at Mount Sinai since the last time we visited my husband\’s grave.
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