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February 22, 2001

A National Unity Government for L.A.

Sheldon Teitelbaum February 22, 2001

The more time I spend trailing the Los Angeles mayoral candidates, the more I find myself musing about rehabilitating the commissariat as a form of government. Or, failing such \”Red Dawn\”/\”Red Alert\” scenarios, perhaps we might seek something akin to the national unity administration now under contemplation in Israel. I say this not just to be provocative — well not only. It just strikes me as a huge waste of precious talent, integrity and commitment to be forced by a winner-takes-all electoral system to have to pick just one of these outstanding people for mayor while jettisoning the others.

Sign of Hope

Jewish Journal Staff February 22, 2001

The sign to the left, posted by Israeli Jewish and Arab students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology around the elite Rehovot campus, reads: \”We, the Arab and Jewish students of the Technion, who daily sit together in the same classrooms in cooperation and friendship, express our pain over the recent outbreaks of violence in our country. It is up to us to continue living here in mutual dignity, peace and security. We call on every Technion student to speak out against violence, and on every citizen to work on behalf of good neighborly relations.\”

A ‘Life’ in Pictures

Michael Aushenker February 22, 2001

As a set photographer, Morris Kagan has shot some of the most recognizable stars in the world.

Piscatorial Compassion

Jane Ulman February 22, 2001

\”Fish is meat,\” announces Danny, my 9-year-old vegetarian son.

\”Fish is fish,\” responds Larry, my 50-something pescetarian husband.

Judaism backs up Larry, classifying fish as pareve, neither dairy nor meat, and telling us that fish first appeared almost 6,000 years ago, on the fifth day of creation, when God commanded, \”Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures\” (Genesis 1:20). God later elaborated, \”anything in water, whether in the seas or in the streams, that has fins and scales — these you may eat\” (Leviticus 11:9).

Laws of Love

Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh February 22, 2001

My daughter is beginning to get her hands into everything. She began crawling at 10 months, but didn\’t quite understand the power of her freedom.

Model Behavior

J. D. Smith February 22, 2001

My cousin Barry, who is 27 and looks like a scale model of Michelangelo\’s \”David,\” is dating a 21-year-old Skechers model. Skechers is a line of shoes and clothing that I have never worn and generally think look ridiculous. You can\’t swing a cat on Melrose Avenue without hitting someone in Skechers. If you\’re wearing Skechers, I\’m too old for you.

Sweatshop Days

Leonard Fein February 22, 2001

Rose Freedman has died.

Her death at 107 years of age has been widely noted, for Freedman was the last living survivor of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire, a calamity that claimed 146 lives. Just months ago, she was featured in a PBS documentary, \”The Living Century,\” which told not only of her experience 90 years ago, but also of the remarkable life she led thereafter. That life — as The New York Times put it — was both \”colorful and courageous,\” right up until her last days in her home in Beverly Hills.

The Muslim Zionist

David Margolis February 22, 2001

Does Islam deserve its title as "one of the world\’s great religions"?

Back From The Dead

Marlene Adler Marks February 22, 2001

I am determined to learn nothing from my cancer. Last month, I had lung surgery known as a thoracotomy. A cancerous tumor in my lower left lobe is gone. I\’ll have chemotherapy, and pretty soon I\’ll be bald. That\’s all I care to know about this completely hideous, unprovoked and unpredictable disease until the CT scan says that the cancer on my chest wall is under control.

Your Letters

Jewish Journal February 22, 2001

What a wonderful story on the Jewish Free Loan Association (JFLA) (\”In Community We Trust,\” Feb. 16). Reading it reminds me of my own story.

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