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November 8, 2001

Good News and a Big Squeeze

James D. Besser November 8, 2001

President George W. Bush last week plugged a gaping hole in the U.S. war against terrorism by expanding the executive order freezing the assets of terror groups to include Hamas, Hezbollah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad.

Jewish leaders hailed the decision, which they said corrected an omission that left the administration open to charges of hypocrisy as U.S. troops hunt down terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Kristallnacht, Six Decades Later

Edith Basch November 8, 2001

In April of last year, I received the following letter from the city of Graz, Austria, where I was born.

\”On November 9th, 2000, the newly erected synagogue in Graz will be returned to the Jewish community. The return of the synagogue is a visual appeal for forgiveness for the atrocities and unjust criminal actions that were dealt our Jewish fellow citizens in the year 1938. This new House of God for the Jewish Community in Graz, which now stands at the very same spot where the former synagogue stood, should be a symbol for new respect for human rights and human kindness here in our city.\”

Breaking Ground

Marlene Adler Marks November 8, 2001

Two months after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, small acts take on a magnified historic context, and large acts are dwarfed by human peril. Freedom and courage seem exceedingly dear, and both are measurable in personal sacrifices and acts of public largesse.

And so it was impossible to take a spade of dirt from a garden-variety synagogue groundbreaking last Sunday and not think in grand, if not grandiose, terms about the role of our American Jewish community in dangerous times. Perhaps it always takes guts to act for the future — to believe in a future — acknowledging that a threat is always rising beyond the next hill.

Your Letters

Jewish Journal November 8, 2001

Letters to the Editor, Point of View in response to Articles.\n

Do-it-Yourselfers

Rob Eshman November 8, 2001

At my college newspaper, new writers all received the same encouraging spiel. \”We want you to start writing for us immediately,\” the editor would say. \”We\’re not like the Harvard Crimson, where you have to scrub floors all semester before anyone even talks to you.\”

Lee Baca’s Brotherhood Crusade

Rob Eshman November 8, 2001

Two weeks after Muslim terrorists attacked America, L.A. County Sheriff Leroy \”Lee\” Baca stood in front of an audience at the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, clutching his personal copy of the Quran. After some preliminary remarks to an audience of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and others whom he had called together, the chief law-enforcement officer for the County of Los Angeles leveled his dark-brown eyes at the audience. \”What,\” he asked, \”does God want from us?\”

Turkish Delight

Tom Tugend November 8, 2001

In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the first joint Turkish-Jewish gala in Los Angeles went ahead almost as planned.

Beyond Day School

Diane Arieff November 8, 2001

Put off by the embattled public school system and intrigued by a combined secular-Jewish program, parents with very young children are opting for private Jewish schools in increasing numbers. This is no longer news. While the majority of non-Orthodox kids still receive their Jewish education \”after school,\” it\’s a well-documented fact that the Jewish community has undergone a day school boom. And, it\’s not just in large cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Houston, but in Jewish communities like St. Louis, Milwaukee, Miami and even Orange County.

High Time

Diane Arieff November 8, 2001

For the past three years, in meetings that often go toward midnight, a handful of local parents, educators and community leaders have been coming together to plan Los Angeles\’ next non-Orthodox Jewish high school.

Now it has come to pass. Late last month, the Core Group, as the parents call themselves, announced the September 2002 opening of the New Community Jewish High School in the West Valley.

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