Nimrod, the youngest, was a creative kid, the wild type who wanted to try it all. Girls followed him around, and he was always busy with projects — building model cars, fixing computers, raising pets in his room.
Vicky, the oldest, was the responsible one.
Korah forces us to examine the motives of those who are either appointed or elected officials. Furthermore, we\’re encouraged to probe the reasons why some people attempt to become self-appointed leaders.
By the time you read this, our state\’s budget crisis will already have a solution. It may not be official, it may not be complete, but it will be in the works. And you can credit Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) for that.
Not very romantic? I was stunned. Did I miss something here? Is it our anniversary? It\’s our first meeting, for crying out loud!
When I arrived in Los Angeles, I was drawn to Boyle Heights, a Latino community that had once been the home of Los Angeles Jewish radical life.
It wasn\’t that I was looking for Eastside, left-wing Jewish roots. I didn\’t have any. When my grandparents lived in Los Angeles before moving north, they had a grocery store in Eagle Rock and later one near Bunker Hill. My mother commuted to UCLA by bus and streetcar to attend the first classes on the Westwood campus.
When it comes to Israel\’s fight against Hamas, a triple standard seems at work.
In the entire U.S. military there are about 50 Orthodox Jews — and I am one of them. Why am I telling you this?
The ghosts of virulently anti-Semitic nuns may haunt Mel Gibson\’s new film about Jesus\’ final days, some Catholic and Jewish scholars are warning.
The growing hype concerns charges that \”The Passion\” blames Jews for Jesus\’ death. Gibson denies any anti-Semitic intent, and little attention has focused on the sources for his screenplay.
While growing up on his Encino cul-de-sac in the 1980s, Darren Stein made films with his father\’s video camera, bossily directing the other Jewish kids like a baby Roger Corman. The sets were backyards; production was every afternoon save for Hebrew school hours at Leo Baeck and Stephen S. Wise temples. The scripts included zombie flicks, campy gay comedies and a Holocaust drama in which a bicycle pump doubled for a canister of Zyklon-B.
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