On the face of it, sending in tanks and bulldozers to demolish most of Yasser Arafat\’s Ramallah headquarters doesn\’t seem to make a whole lot of sense for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Palestinian physics professor Ghassan Andoni treads a difficult line. His ardent advocacy of fighting the \”Israeli occupation,\” by nonviolent methods endears him neither to Palestinian extremists nor to the Israeli authorities.
No one — neither Rabbi Paula Reimers nor board members who voted not to renew her contract — believes that she was let go just because of the Israeli flag incident.
Give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Give him chicken soup while fishing, you feed him, teach him and give him a taste of home.
Three bills strengthening education on the Holocaust and aiding restitution claimants in California have been signed into law by Gov. Gray Davis.
The call from Grant Gershon, the conductor of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, stunned Sharon Farber.
For Rabbi Marvin Hier, the new $12.6 million YULA (Yeshiva University of Los Angeles) boys\’ school building gives him both a feeling of pride and a twinge of envy.
When Dr. Joel L. Strom was attending services recently at Congregation Kehillat Ma\’arav in Santa Monica, a lady walked up, fixed him with a stern eye and spit out, "You are a traitor to your people."
After an evening of social drinking and dancing at a well-publicized Persian Night at the Goodbar nightclub in West Hollywood, some 20 young Iranian Muslims followed two young Iranian Jews into the street and, amidst shouts of \”F–k the Jews, Kill the Jews,\” attacked the two.
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