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December 13, 2001
A Principal’s Principles
Even before Columbine High School would become a national synonym for school violence in April 1999, an Orange County school administrator was troubled by finger-pointing that inevitably surfaced during that awful season of school shootings.
Barney Miller and Big Band
Back when Hal Linden was Harold Lipshitz, a Jewish kid from the Bronx, he dreamed of becoming a big-band leader. \”So I felt I had to change my name,\” says Linden, best-known as the stalwart Jewish police captain in the hit sitcom \”Barney Miller.\”
A Survivor’s ‘Triumph’
\”Testimonies of Triumph,\” a short film about a Jewish Polish family that endured years in hiding to escape the Holocaust, is to have its first broadcast Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. on public television station KOCE.
White Power, O.C. Style
Who knew that sunny Orange County, home of Disneyland and family values, was the \”Mekka [sic] of National Socialist skinhead bands\” and \”the skinhead capitol [sic] of the world.\”
Serious Play
We call it the Festival of Lights, but Chanukah starts in a very dark place.
Waiter, Hold the Knishes
A group of 27 influential Charedi rabbis will soon issue a takhana, or rarely issued formal guideline, setting strict limits on the number of people who are to be invited to an Orthodox wedding, the number of musicians hired to play, and even the type and amount of food that is to be served.
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