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August 12, 2004

Anti-Semitism Takes No Holiday in France

Carole Raphaelle Davis August 12, 2004

This is the season of le grand départ, when millions of French people leave for their summer vacation. Eighty-four percent of the French population will be going away on holiday this summer, and there are traffic jams hundreds of kilometers long from Paris to the Riviera.

But this year, as the masses pack their bathing suits, say au revoir to their co-workers and squeeze into crowded trains bound for the sea, Jew haters don\’t seem to be taking a holiday.

Olympic Veterans Return to Compete

E.B. Solomont August 12, 2004

Joe Jacobi\’s pain as he prepares for the Olympics is more emotional than physical.

The canoeist/kayaker, 34, told JTA by e-mail that as he prepares for the Olympics in Athens, he misses his 3-year-old daughter, Seu Jane — named for the Spanish village that hosted some rowing competitions in the 1992 Summer Games — who is at home with his wife in Tennessee.

The pursuit of an Olympic medal usually conjures up a youthful single-mindedness, but like Jacobi, many of the 15 Jewish athletes competing for the U.S. team at the Athens Games are veteran athletes who competed in previous Olympics.

Sharon Defuses Settlement Crisis

Leslie Susser August 12, 2004

Quick action by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon managed to avert a looming crisis over Israeli building in the West Bank, but the tension could resume as Israel comes under pressure to meet its commitments to dismantle illegal settlement outposts and not to expand existing settlements.

Jack Spitzer

Jewish Journal August 12, 2004

\”I have a philosophy very compatible with being a banker,\” he told a Seattle Times reporter in 1994. \”I believe that people should pay their debts. My debt to society is so great that if I were to live 100 years I could not completely begin to repay it.\”

7 Days In Arts

Jewish Journal August 12, 2004

Chug on down to the Getty today or tomorrow, as they present Sharon Katz and the Peace Train as part of their Garden Concerts for Kids series.

Racist Repeats Election Stratagem

Donald H. Harrison August 12, 2004

The leadership of our mainstream political parties meanwhile vowed that in the future, they would prevent the hijacking of their congressional nominations by extremists. For a quarter of a century, they were mostly able to keep that vow — up until now.

Mayor’s Race Role

Raphael J. Sonenshein August 12, 2004

Jews are attentive, high-propensity voters. Nearly one in five Los Angeles voters are Jewish (with only 6 percent of the population). If past history is a guide, however, the Jewish vote will play a more important role in the expected runoff between the two top candidates than in the multicandidate primary.

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