Bizarro World and ‘The Settlers’
Jonathan Kellerman
March 22, 2001
One wonders if Superman would find Middle East politics any easier.
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March 22, 2001
The Toll of Violence
Daniel Gordis
March 22, 2001
Friday night, the kids had gone to bed, and we found ourselves in the living room with some long-overdue quiet time. I was reading Tom Segev\’s book, \”One Palestine, Complete,\” a revisionist account of the British Mandate, at a point in the book in which he spells out the seemingly unending cycle of violence between Jews and Arabs in the 1920s and 1930s.
Your Letters
Jewish Journal
March 22, 2001
While participating in Super Sunday, as I have most of my life, I was questioned about my comments in an article by Michael Aushenker (\”Scott Svonkin: Pulling Together,\” Feb. 16).
Doorposts of My House
Marlene Adler Marks
March 22, 2001
What right had I to hope? Cancer is an expensive disease, draining huge chunks of time and money, not to mention enthusiasm. To hire the artist Susan Krieg for my doorway project, I had to dig into capital that would have scared me even during my most productive years.
An Intifada Casualty Named Atarot
Larry Derfner
March 22, 2001
The Atarot Industrial Park, located at the edge of a Jerusalem Arab village and right on the border of the Palestinian Authority, was meant as a forerunner of the \”New Middle East\”: Arabs and Jews making money together, not war.
Waiting for Action
David Landau
March 22, 2001
Israel seemed to be holding its breath this week in the wake of three Palestinian attacks.
Investing in Dignity
Richard Gunther
March 22, 2001
There is now a worldwide Microcredit Summit Campaign underway that has enlisted several thousand microlenders and hundreds of international development agencies, all working toward a goal of reaching 100 million of the world\’s poorest families with microloans by the year 2005.
The Age of Coalitions
James D. Besser
March 22, 2001
The plain fact is, Jews are a tiny and diminishing proportion of the U.S. population, while other groups are experiencing dramatic growth.
One on One With Antonio Villaraigosa
Sheldon Teitelbaum
March 22, 2001
Trust current mayoral candidate and State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Antonio Villaraigosa to come up with a uniquely strategic location for his storefront headquarters.
Draw a Tree, Win a Contest
Jewish Journal Staff
March 22, 2001
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. That\’s how the judges of The Jewish Journal\’s first Tu B\’Shevat Art Contest feel about having to pick just three winners out of so many terrific entries.
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