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December 5, 2002

Menorah Lights Our Way

Marisa N. Pickar December 5, 2002

For three years, I lived in an apartment in Jerusalem next to a bus stop. The rhythm of my life quickly adapted to the bus schedule. Just by looking out my bedroom window, I knew exactly when to leave the house in order to catch the bus.

When I returned to California, I assumed my life\’s association with buses would end. But this was not to be. I live in a neighborhood where buses abound. And they\’re just as loud as those of Jerusalem. But the associations couldn\’t be more different.

Access to Academia

Julie Gruenbaum Fax December 5, 2002

If you\’ve ever been curious about \”Hierarchy and Transcendence in Gersonides\’ Theory of Knowing\” or \”Mnemonic Characteristics and the Oral Transmission of Aggadic Tradition,\” you\’re about to get your chance to wade through these weighty issues with leading academics, when 1,000 members of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) descend on Los Angeles for the organization\’s 34th annual conference Dec. 15-17 at the Century Plaza Hotel.

Blacks, Jews Unite for ‘Sheba’

Beverly Gray December 5, 2002

In 1939, as a child of 3, Sonia Levitin fled Hitler\’s Germany with her family. The first friend she made in the United States was a small African American girl. Nearly 50 years later, as a well-established writer of young adult fiction, Levitin won the National Jewish Book Award for \”The Return\” (Atheneum, 1987). This historical novel focuses on the plight of Ethiopian Jews, who consider themselves descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In tracing their perilous journey from Africa to Israel via Operation Moses in 1984, Levitin combined her long-standing interest in African culture with her own childhood memories of leaving her homeland behind.

Shtetl Rock ‘n’ Roll

Sonia Pilcer December 5, 2002

Much to the chagrin of cultural nationalists in places such as France, no culture seems immune to the seductive rhythms of American pop and rock. Fed by a steady diet of American TV and movies, young musicians from places as disparate as Zimbabwe, Paraguay, New Zealand, Mynamar and Egypt have learned to combine their indigenous folk music with U.S.-born-and-bred rock — making for a kind of transglobal, world-beat music with a heavy blues and R&B influence.

The Gold Standard

Naomi Pfefferman December 5, 2002

In his dressing room on the set of NBC\’s \”In-Laws,\” Elon Gold rolls his eyes at a gag gift that sits like an eyesore on a coffee table. It\’s a cartoon-like clock, so over-the-top it looks straight out of Looney Tunes. \”My co-star, Dennis Farina, got me this ugly thing because I was maybe 10 minutes late to work,\” the boyish actor-comedian gripes.

‘Dybbuk’ Nohs It

Michael Aushenker December 5, 2002

As far as Jewish plays go, \”The Dybbuk\” is a classic to those in the know or, perhaps more appropriately, those in the Noh — the dramatic Japanese theatrical style.

A Miracle Behind Bars

Harry Langsam December 5, 2002

Dark clouds covered the European skies, threatening the children of Israel in the fall of 1939. The Nazis had tightened their grip over Eastern Europe and, as it often happens, nature acted with unfriendliness toward the oppressed. A cold winter came upon us — the refugees — after the traumatic and dreadful fall, when the German occupation began.

Kenya Blast Expands War Against West

Einat Kessler December 5, 2002

On Nov. 28, as nearly everyone now knows, two missiles were fired at an Israeli commercial airliner taking off from Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kenya.

The missiles narrowly missed the plane, and the aircraft continued safely to Israel.

Go My People, Go Now!

Si Frumkin December 5, 2002

The handling of the October hostage crisis in a Moscow theater is only one of the examples of a Russian attitude that is incomprehensible to the average Westerner.

One American Muslim

Rob Eshman December 5, 2002

Tashbih Sayyed told me he has cried three times in his adult life: once when his father died, once when his mother died and once when he had to sell his house.

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