Transit
Teresa Strasser
September 14, 2000
I didn\’t do much today but drive.No one died. No jobs were lost or won. I didn\’t run into an old boyfriend, have an epiphany or a traffic accident.
Category
September 14, 2000
Israeli Jews to Outnumber Those in U.S.
Gustav Niebuhr
September 14, 2000
Jews in Israel will outnumber Jews in the United States in two decades, part of a shift in Jewish population by which Israel will become home to a majority of the world\’s Jews by 2050, says a study in the new edition of the \”American Jewish Year Book.\”
Links to Tradition
Michael Aushenker
September 14, 2000
As a kid growing up in Pascagoula, Miss., it eventually dawned on Fivel Smiles that \”I was the only Jew in my high school. If you wanted something Jewish, it wasn\’t easy.\”
Power of Words
Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer
September 14, 2000
Each night before retiring, the great Chassidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav would make a list. At the end of a long day, he would write down all the wrongs he had committed – against other people, against God, against himself.
Starting Over
Peter Ephross
September 14, 2000
Millions of immigrants have flocked to the United States looking for streets paved with gold. Lenny Krayzelburg, who came to Los Angeles from Odessa, Ukraine, in 1988 is searching for gold as well – but in a pool at Sydney\’s Olympic Games.
From Russia, With Gold
Avi Machlis
September 14, 2000
Athletes from the former Soviet Union have transformed the Israeli Olympics sports scene. About one-third of the Israeli team in the upcoming Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia – and five of the six strongest Israeli contenders – are originally from the former Soviet Union.
High Holy Day Divorce
Maia Danziger
September 14, 2000
I flew to New York on the morning of Rosh Hashanah, 5760. Tuesday there was a day in court, a dreaded ugly ending to a seemingly unending divorce.
When Price Is an Obstacle
Adam Wills
September 14, 2000
Jeanine Ho, 28, sits near her dining room window and adjusts the stroller\’s visor so her baby doesn\’t get too much sun. She rubs the stomach of 2-week-old Maxwell and he sighs.
Local Olympians
Adam Wills
September 14, 2000
Besides Lenny Krayzelburg, three other American Jews with a Southern California connection are vying for the gold at the Olympic Games in Sydney: a runner who graduated from Agoura Hills High School, a 19-year-old from Valencia who will be the first person of African-American descent to swim in the Olympics, and an Irvine-based swimmer who loves to surf.
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Jewish Journal
September 14, 2000
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