As students around the Southland graduate and move beyond high school, The Journal sought out some of the outstanding Jewish high school seniors of 10 years ago, talking with five of the 13 valedictorians of the Class of 1993.
Alex Fullman has always loved to swim. He started when he was 2 years old and began swimming competitively at 6. So when representatives of American Red Magen David for Israel (ARMDI) visited his sixth-grade class at Heschel Day School to encourage students to consider making a donation as part of their bar or bat mitzvah year, Alex decided to combine his love of swimming with the needs of ARMDI. The organization provides emergency medical services throughout Israel.
Talk about fiction: A show with four women who live in Manhattan and spend most of their time talking about men, eating and shopping — and none of them are Jewish? That all could change this season on HBO\’s \”Sex and the City,\” when one of the gals considers heading to temple.
On May 7, exactly 16 years minus 5 1/2 hours after his birth, my son, Gabe, took his driving test at the Winnetka Department of Motor Vehicles office.
Two forces in our culture are at odds here — the desire to respectfully accommodate differences, and the ease with which we claim victimhood for ourselves and for our children.
The violence that threatened to scuttle the nascent "road map" peace plan last week seems to have had quite a different result.
Coming after conferences on anti-Semitism in New York, Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna, the book, \”A New Anti-Semitism? Debating Judeophobia in 21st-Century Britain,\” is something of a symposium unto itself.
The three young Fatah guerrillas in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, wearing masks and holding AK-47s, had just received advance payment to start a second career — as Palestinian policemen fighting terror, according to an Arab journalist present.
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