It is incomprehensible that Joel Kotkin would use his article in The Jewish Journal (\”A New World View,\” Sept. 21) to blame former President Clinton for the World Trade Center tragedy.
There once was a man who could provide only potatoes for his family\’s subsistence. As the monotony and the poverty wore on, he prayed, and his prayers were answered. There fell into his hands a mysterious map to a magical Island of Diamonds.
On the evening of Oct. 1, the Jewish community will begin celebrating the harvest festival by building sukkot.
In second grade, my alternative San Francisco elementary school gathered all the students together for a \”share\” session. It was a tiny school. We crowded into the library, where a teacher calmly announced that there had been a tragedy over the weekend.
Alpert JCC: Sun., Sept. 30, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Opening reception for Austrian artist Armand Vallee\’s exhibit. Exhibit on display through Oct. 12. 3801 E. Willow St., Long Beach. For more information, call (562) 426-7601.
A community teach-in planned several weeks ago about Israel has taken on new and more painful dimensions since Sept. 11.
An Iron Age stone fragment that bears the first known reference outside the Bible to King David will be among the works shown in October during "The Holy Land: David Roberts, Dead Sea Scrolls, House of David Inscription" at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana. It will be a first for a U.S. institution.
Scott Elliott Sraberg, infant son of Karen and Brad Sraberg, died Sept. 3.
Despite aggressive spin control by Jewish leaders in the United States, the battle against the worldwide terror network of Osama bin Laden is already churning U.S.-Israel relations and resulting in intensified pressure on Jerusalem to work out a cease-fire with the Palestinians.
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