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July 26, 2001
Hero Can’t Support Mom
A former Swiss bank security guard who prevented the shredding of vital Holocaust-era bank records four years ago now claims he is going broke.
Katherine Myer Graham
Even before she died July 17, if you entered Katherine Graham\’s name into an Internet search engine, you would have ended up with a few articles describing her role as publisher of the Washington Post and many more sites attacking Jewish control of the media.
Mr. Television Turns Another Channel
Red Buttons almost fell down while approaching the podium. But the master of the one-liner quickly rebounded, both physically and comedically.
Power of Speech
From a very young age, I learned to defend myself against the teasing and taunting of any one of my six siblings with the same defense as so many of us: \”Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!\”
Jewish Girls Rule
I have a pint-sized Jewish ex-girlfriend named Lori who once asked if I thought that Jewish girls were better lovers.
Rally Later
In the midst of the speeches at Sunday\’s solidarity rally for Israel, I felt a growing swell of ambivalence and even discomfort over the event.
Israel Is Not Alone
This past Sunday thousands of individuals, representing the full spectrum of the Jewish community\’s diversity of thought and opinion, gathered on Wilshire Boulevard to express solidarity with the people of Israel.
A 17-Year-Old Mourns
One week after a suicide bomber had killed seven of her schoolmates, among 21 dead, 17-year old Olga Bakharakh, president of the student council at the Shevach Moffet magnet school in Tel Aviv, spoke at a shiva (mourning ceremony) to the families of the dead and wounded students.
Together for Israel
Thousands of Angelenos joined in a rally Sunday morning, July 22, to emotionally affirm their solidarity with Israel and her people.
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