About a year before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a major reform of California\’s disastrous workers\’ comp system, the same basic reforms were fought and eventually killed by elected Democrats trying to protect lawyers who gamed our broken system but gave heavily to Democratic campaign coffers.
\”We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of \’separate but equal\’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.\”
"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam." So declares Oriana Fallaci in her new book, "La Forza della Ragione" ("The Force of Reason"). And the famed Italian journalist is right: Christianity\’s ancient stronghold of Europe is rapidly giving way to Islam.
On a recent trip to Manhattan, I traveled to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which I\’d heard about from friends in Los Angeles. The core of the museum is a restored 19th- century tenement house, which was a second point of landing, after Ellis Island, for a mixture of Italians, Germans and Eastern European and Sephardic Jews who made the hard crossing to America in search of better lives.
Berkeley, 1959. The Berkeley Gazette announced the marriage of two students at Temple Beth El.
When Galit Weidman Sassoon got engaged last year, her thoughts turned to the kind of wedding ceremony she and her fiancé wanted — meaningful, egalitarian and Jewish.
Sometimes the smallest details are the ones that make the biggest impression.
David Milch\’s HBO Western series, "Deadwood," tells of a grimy mining town where drinking, whoring, killing, cussing and cheating are de rigeur.
Furniture, vital in everyday life, hardly ever plays a large role in art. Henry James\’ \”The Spoils of Poynton\” comes to mind, in which the characters\’ inner lives are manifested in their dreadful fight over inherited furnishings, as do stories by Anzia Yezierska, in which the meager possessions of immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side come to symbolize both their survival and their salvation. But for the most part, as in much of our lives, tables, chairs, sofas, bureaus, cabinets and the like are taken for granted in art, imbued with little meaning.
Many young Americans know comedian Alan King\’s work — they just don\’t realize it.
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