Israel Weighs Response to Bombing
Naomi Segal
October 24, 2002
Israel generally reacts swiftly to Palestinian terror attacks, but that was not the case this week.
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October 24, 2002
Hilltop Struggle Casts Long Shadow
Leslie Susser
October 24, 2002
On the face of it, the struggle between Israeli troops and a group of unruly young settlers for control of a windswept West Bank hilltop does not seem all that important.
Eulogies:Rabbi Stanley F. Chyet
Jewish Journal
October 24, 2002
Rabbi Stanley F. Chyet, professor emeritus of American Jewish history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) campus since 1976, and assistant to the president and secretary to the board of trustees of the Skirball Cultural Center since 1981, died at the age of 71 at his home in Sherman Oaks on Oct. 19, 2002, after a two-year battle with cancer.
Tribemembers With Halos
Carin Davis
October 24, 2002
Two Jewish pitchers — Al Levine and Scott Schoeneweis — are part of this World Series\’ miracle, where the Anaheim Angels have made it for the first time (as of press time the series was undecided).
A Canine Commencement
Tom Tugend
October 24, 2002
A black Labrador retriever, proudly bearing Israeli and American flags, joined several dignitaries on stage this month to celebrate the first graduation exercise of Pups for Peace.
Spinning a Jewish Web
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
October 24, 2002
Sylvia Rouss, who teaches at Stephen S. Wise Temple, is the author of the popular \”Sammy Spider\” series, which are widely used in Jewish schools around the country.
College Ad Misses the Point
Susannah Heschel
October 24, 2002
As a historian of Jewish-Christian relations in Germany, and as a professor who has taught at several German universities, hostility toward Jews and Judaism in university settings is certainly nothing new to me.
Banned in Berlin
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
October 24, 2002
Who says you have to be Jewish to write a play about the Holocaust? Certainly not John O\’Keefe, author of the upcoming \”Times Like These,\” which takes place in Hitler\’s Berlin from 1934-1938.
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