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March 22, 2001

Don’t Trust Me

If the Nixon administration taught us nothing else, I think the lesson learned was this: Destroy the evidence.

The Jewish King

In the heat of a 1991 match, a player for the Buffalo Sabers called then-Canadiens defenseman Mathieu Schneider a \”Jew boy.\”

Karate Kids

Look for these young stars to grace the Maccabi Games and the karate world in the near future.

Body and Soul

Six days after the earth\’s creation, God both mandates and hallows the Sabbath day.

Student Union

It all began with an idea for a building. Aron Hirt-Manheimer was a UCLA senior-year psychology major in 1969 when The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles proposed to buy a building for student activities.

Recognizing Goodness

We have a tendency to either divinize or demonize our heroes. Either extreme is dangerously misleading.

Road Trip

In celebration of HUC-JIR\’s impending 125th anniversary, faculty members from the Los Angeles campus will be fanning out across Southern California during the next few weeks to bring the college to the congregants.

Special Night of Music

At the end of August 1992, a young man, who had gone out to a bar because he was \”bored,\” struck our car. The drunken driver injured my family and killed Liana, my 18-year-old daughter, as we were returning home from Friday night services. Liana was going to fly out the next day to attend college at Brandeis University.

From Kataif to Kasha

Joan Nathan is one of America\’s premier food journalists, which is what makes \”The Foods of Israel Today\” so important a book.

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