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August 9, 2001
Power of the Past
My son Zack, 17, is celebrating Shabbat dinner tonight at the Bohema Restaurant in Krakow, Poland.
In fact, not only is he celebrating Shabbat, but he and his group — 15 students from Milken Community High School in Los Angeles and 140 students from Tichon Chadash High School in Tel Aviv, plus teachers and parent chaperones (including my husband, Larry) — are practically doubling Krakow\’s Jewish population, estimated at 200. It is a population that, at its height in the late 1930s, numbered more than 60,000.
Deaths in the Family
\nWhenever one of our writers or contributors — or I myself — use the term \”Jewish community,\” I think of Lew Wasserman. An interviewer once asked the former MCA chairman and power broker about the Jewish community here. Wasserman shot back: \”I don\’t know of a Jewish community. It is nonexistent.\”
7 Days In Arts
Middle-aged, mild-mannered Barney Cashman craves excitement in the form of an extramarital affair. Neil Simon\’s \”Last of the Red Hot Lovers\” follows this bumbling protagonist as he attempts to seduce three women, including his wife\’s best friend, in his mother\’s apartment.
Austria Will Pay
When U.S. District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram gave the green light on Wednesday, July 25 for Austria to start paying out $450 million to World War II forced and slave laborers, she had special words of praise for Walter Zifkin.
Get on the Bus
\nOfficials at Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA) have decided to reinstate an after-school care program at the Westside Jewish Community Center — to the dismay of parents at the Bay Cities Jewish Community Center, who have been pressing for the return of the program there.
L.A.’s Hidden Battalions
High-power Israeli Defense Force (IDF) squads have been traveling to choice tourist destinations worldwide this summer, but not for vacation.
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