NBC\’s Sunday night drama, \”American Dreams,\” finds the generally non-Jewish saga\’s second season storylines, about an Irish Catholic family in 1960s Philadelphia, becoming a bit more Jewish.
\”The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust\” by Sir Martin Gilbert (Henry Holt and Company, $35).
On Jan. 19, 1942, Rabbi Jacob Schulmann of Grabow Synagogue wrote to his community in Lodz:
\”Alas, to our great grief, we now know all. I spoke to an eyewitness who escaped. He told me everything. They\’re exterminated in Chelmno, near Dombie, and they are all buried in the Rzuszow forest.\”
One week after her 1998 wedding, New York actress Isabel Rose packed up her belongings and moved with her husband to London.
Larry King is as known for sitting hunched over a microphone, schmoozing with everyone who is anyone, as he is for wearing big black glasses and suspenders over shirt sleeves. But as the TV icon approaches the big 7-0 (his birthday is Nov. 19), he\’s increasingly wearing something else on his sleeve: his Judaism.
Reviewed: \”To Do Right and the Good: Jewish Approach to Modern Social Ethics,\” by Elliot N. Dorff (Jewish Publication Society, $34.95.)
\”Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics,\” by Elliot N. Dorff (Jewish Publication Society, $25).
\”Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics,\” by Elliot N. Dorff (Jewish Publication Society, $34.95).
\”If you\’re a pretty good actor and live long enough, you can play any role,\” said Len Lesser, sitting on a worn couch just after finishing an evening performance at A Noise Within in Glendale.
Smoke intoxicated the air and dark clouds cast an eerie glow over the Southern California sky as fire engulfed our Simi Valley neighborhood.
Jewish voters are an important constituency in national elections, concentrated in such electoral vote-rich states as California, New York, Florida and Illinois. However, they are even more important in the struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination, comprising an important share of the vote in key Democratic primaries. For Jewish Democrats, the 2004 nomination race is providing some very difficult choices.
Yasser Arafat is the one who gains the most from the Geneva understandings. The State of Israel is the prime loser.
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