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October 31, 2002

The Jewish War

Rob Eshman October 31, 2002

On a recent installment of MSNBC\’s \”Hardball,\” Chris Matthews hosted a debate between Pat Buchanan and Republican political analyst David Frum. Buchanan opposed a United States-led invasion of Iraq, while Frum supported President George W. Bush\’s plan for tough inspections first followed by — if those inspections fail — the forceful removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.\n\nThat we\’ve all heard before. But what I hadn\’t heard before — what I wasn\’t even sure I was hearing as I reclined comfortably on my couch — was the repeated reference to the fact that the pro-war advisers are Jews. Matthews said it. Frum said it. Buchanan, whose love of the Jewish people and Israel would win him no Lion of Judah awards, seemed to strain mightily against saying it, and refused to snap at the bait Matthews dangled before him.

The New Jewish Politic

Journal Staff October 31, 2002

Combative and fiesty, Larry Sternberg relishes the impact of his Libertarian views. When running in a congressional primary for Rep. Robert Badham\’s vacated District 47 seat, Sternberg advocated decriminalizing illegal drugs. Despite a lack of campaign resources, he stood out in a crowded field ultimately won by Christopher Cox. \”It was fun; it was a crazy fling,\” said the semi-retired Tustin accountant.

United We Stand

Journal Staff October 31, 2002

Nearly twice as many residents as last year intend to participate in the We Stand With Israel trip next month, Federation Executive Director Bunnie Mauldin said,adding that \”despite what\’s going on politically or war with Iraq on the horizon, our aim is the same.\”

The trip is an opportunity for people to show their support.

Leonard Green

Jewish Journal Staff October 31, 2002

Leonard I. Green, founding partner of the West Coast\’s largest leveraged buyout firm and board chairman of the Los Angeles Opera, died on Oct. 25 following complications from heart surgery in Venice, Italy, where he was vacationing. He was 68.

Survival Series

Journal Staff October 31, 2002

Thomas \”Toivi\” Blatt overpowered concentration camp guards during a mass escape by several hundred prisoners. Nechama Tec evaded Nazi detection by leading a double life, passing for three years as the daughter of Catholic Poles.

Assuming a Christian identity saved Tec, but the experience left her with the bitter feeling that she had betrayed herself and her fellow Jews. Now a University of Connecticut sociology professor, Tec has written several books that explore the mix of motivations in rescuers and resisters of the Holocaust.

Thomas Toivi Blatt, now 84, will recount his teenage experience witnessing and fleeing the Polish death camp Sobibor. Blatt, who has also written about his account, is hoping to establish an organization to maintain the site, which is not marked, said Dr. Marilyn Harran, director of Chapman University\’s Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education.

A Thanksgiving to Fill the Spirit

Elliot Fein October 31, 2002

On the evening before Thanksgiving, my synagogue, Congregation Eilat in Mission Viejo, always gets together with a neighboring church, Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist, for an interfaith service. What is remarkable about this joint venture, and other pre-Thanksgiving services like it throughout the United States, is the fact that Jews and Christians can pray together under one roof.

My parents entered a church only for a neighbor\’s wedding, funeral or other life-cycle event. On those rare occasions, they were invited guests, not participants.

Together for Israel

Rachel Brand October 31, 2002

When Sarah Tolkoff returned to UC Irvine to begin a new school year, she found that the Muslim student newspaper Al Kalima\’s cover featured a picture of Sharon and Hitler\’s faces digitally merged together. The headline read: \”History repeats.\”

History was also repeating itself for Tolkoff, who had hoped that by this semester the anti-Israel propaganda would have been toned down.

UCI Forum MERITs Response

Andrea Adelson October 31, 2002

A UC Irvine forum on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last month exposed a rare rift over academic freedom within the normally collaborative Orange County Jewish community.

The four selected panelists at the Oct. 9 program were critiqued as a \”pro-violence platform\” by the Fullerton-based Middle East Reporting in Truth (MERIT), a grass-roots group organized to counter media bias. MERIT urged its members to press public officials for an investigation of the forum\’s sponsors and funding, describing the participants, who at that time had not yet been identified, as \”Palestinians who justify suicide bombers\” and calling the event \”propaganda\” for lacking mainstream speakers.

Prager vs. Lerner: A Clash of Politics, Values

Andrea Adelson October 31, 2002

That\’s the atmosphere expected at an upcoming debate between two of the Jewish community\’s most outspoken activists on each side of the political spectrum.

In Prager vs. Lerner, conservative talk show host Dennis Prager will debate Michael Lerner, editor of the leftist magazine Tikkun, on Nov. 7 as part of the Orange County Jewish Community Center\’s book festival.

\”They are thought-provoking speakers with polar-opposite views about nearly everything,\” said Arie Katz, founder of the Community Scholar Program, which is co-sponsor of the Nov. 7 \”We Beg to Differ\” debate at Newport Beach\’s Temple Bat Yahm.

Turning GOP in O.C.

Janine Robinson October 31, 2002

An emerging conservatism among Jews has rattled traditional Southern California partisan allegiances, and local Republicans are claiming a surge of new Jewish recruits. But in Orange County, one of the most conservative strongholds in the nation, party leaders say the migration has been going on for years.

\”I think it has been rather consistent and ongoing for quite some time,\” said Tom Fuentes, chairman of the O.C. Republican Party. \”What I\’ve seen is a philosophical motivation among practicing Jews involved with their faith finding a value compatibility with the values of the Republican Party.\”

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