September 9, 2004

‘Slaves’ to Drugs Find Help in Chabad

Gaby Wenig September 9, 2004

When John Ostlund was 33, a judge offered him a choice: Quit heroin or lose your 3-year-old daughter.

Masters Of Return

Julie Gruenbaum Fax September 9, 2004

Not knowing the words to Friday night Kiddush — in fact, not knowing that there was such a thing as Kiddush — bothered Sharon Brous, but she got over it.

Federation to End Donor Subscriptions

Marc Ballon September 9, 2004

Starting next year, Jewish Journal readers who received their weekly newspaper by donating to The Jewish Federation will still be able to get it, but not as part of their Federation donation.

Stanley Sheinbaum is in his element. As 40 members of Americans for Peace Now and their allies sip white wine, nibble brie and heatedly discuss the economic and moral injustices of Israel\’s occupation, the éminence grise of liberalism watches and listens with the rapt attention of the Stanford University graduate student he once was. When guest speaker Rep. Lois Capps (D-Santa Barbara) says that the \”ethical aspiration of Judaism is to stand up for the downtrodden,\” including African Americans, homosexuals and Palestinians, Sheinbaum nods his head in agreement.