A downtown Los Angeles courtroom this week relived the horrid 2003 crash in which the tranquil Santa Monica Farmers Market was shattered when 86-year-old George Russell Weller\’s foot hit the accelerator of his 1992 Buick and the speeding car killed 10 people.
A saleswoman, driving home in northern Arizona, sees a Navajo woman hitchhiking, stops the car and invites the Navajo woman to join her.
With just a few minutes to go before we are to take the stage Stan Kritzer, the elder statesman of the Temple Ner Tamid brotherhood, gathers us speakers into a small side room off the main sanctuary for a last minute talking to.
My friend Dan recently complained about his move from Washington, D.C. to Manhattan. He wasn\’t annoyed by the tiny apartments or smelly subways. Instead, he said that when he switched his JDate location to New York, all the women he corresponded with were voting for Bush.
We Jews aren\’t exactly famous for agreeing with one another. Of our community, it is frequently said, \”Five Jews, eight opinions.\”
\”Because of the strong support of the Republican candidate for president and doubts about the commitment of the Democrat, this is the year that large numbers of Democrats will finally move into the Republican camp and stay there, because the Republicans really do better represent the status and interests of the Jews.\”
Debates are a chance for the candidates to speak without scripts and show what they truly believe. And in the first presidential debate, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) made a revealing comment.
Republicans are trying to woo traditionally Democratic Jewish voters to President Bush. Their argument is that the president\’s re-election is in the best interest of both the United States and Israel. We strongly disagree.
From the beginning, even before it was famous, \”The Apprentice,\” Donald Trump\’s reality TV show, had piqued my interest — but not enough to make a standing engagement with my TV set whenever it was on.
In the late 1970s, a time when Jews in the United States had arguably achieved more status and social acceptance than in any previous era of their long Diaspora, American Jewish groups began work on a project that culminated in 1993 with the dedication of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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