The United States should be the country to bring Abbas to justice because \”it\’s an American citizen who was murdered,\” argued Abraham Foxman, the ADL\’s national director. \”We urge the Department of Justice to seize this moment to strike another blow in this nation\’s war on terrorism.\”
It\’s 10 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Yaelle Cohen, a Pico-Robertson mother of five, is about to leave the house to run an errand. No — she\’s not going to pick up milk. Someone called offering her some used bed linen and towels, and Cohen thinks they might be good for one of the many families she helps, so she is going to pick them up. The linen will join the clothes, shoes and other sundry items that Cohen keeps in an ever-growing pile in the corner of her living room. These items will all be sorted through and assessed by size and quality, and then distributed to families in need.
Helping the needy is what SOVA (Hebrew for \”eat and be satisfied\”) has been doing since 1983, when Santa Monica deli owner Hy Altman and wife, Zucky, created the nonprofit organization.
\”The U.S. had all the right reasons for going to war with Iraq without the support of United Nations,\” said Jordana Friedman, an eighth-grader at Kadima Hebrew Academy in Woodland Hills. \”[Their leaders] lied. They said they were disarmed. Do we want another Sept. 11? I think we\’re totally justified.\”
With software packages like Family Tree Maker and the growing availability of genealogy databases online, family-tree research is being marketed to consumers as an easy, accessible hobby. According to a 2000 Maritz Research poll, nearly 60 percent of people surveyed expressed an interest in genealogy, a 15 percent increase from 1995.
In our Torah portion this Shabbat, Moses, who is closer to God than any other human being, pleads with God, \”Show me Your presence.\”
I was at a party in Sunset Plaza recently where a woman walked over to me and accused: \”Could you leave some for the rest of us?\”
Four Angelenos were killed on the last day of the battle for Baghdad. Three were young men, each one of them killed with a bullet to the head on the streets of South Central Los Angeles. The fourth to die was an 8-year-old girl, hit by a bullet meant for a gang member.
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