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November 18, 2004
Iceberg Sinks ‘Race’ Menches
Eleven teams. Thirty days. One-million dollars. Zero bagels. That is what 32-year-olds Avi Scheier and Joe Rashbaum tried to face as one of the teams on the sixth season of the around-the-world reality show \”The Amazing Race.\”
\”Race\” teams are given clues telling them where to go and what tasks they must perform. At the end of each episode, the last team to reach the \”pit stop\” is eliminated — the first team to cross the finish line at the end wins $1 million.
No Stranger to Strange
From call girl to Trump girl, actress Lisa Edelstein has played myriad parts on stage and off. Now she\’s landed a plum role, starring on the Fox TV series \”House,\” an \”E.R.\”-meets-\”CSI\” drama. The Boston native heads the fictional teaching hospital that houses strangely ill patients.
Flying Solo This Winter? Head South
The leaves have turned, the days are shorter and Chag Urim, the Holiday of Lights, glimmers ahead. In the meantime, if you\’re single or a student, and itching to plan a winter getaway, we\’ve rounded up a pair of juicy possibilities.
Arts and Entertainment
Few academic disputes are fiercer than among biblical archaeologists, and \”Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land\” is bound to raise the tone of the arguments by a few more octaves.\n\nThe hour-long NOVA documentary, airing on PBS station KCET on Nov. 23 at 8 p.m., follows an expedition to a remote cave in Israel\’s Judean Desert, initially excavated by famed soldier and archaeologist Yigael Yadin in 1960.
Safire Says Book of Job Political
Dean\’s confusion about the location of the Book of Job generated a fair amount of ridicule at the time from commentators — but not from William Safire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, who is speaking next week about Job at Sinai Temple.
Agencies’ Funding Cuts Hurts Assistance for Southland Poor
Like their clients, several local Jewish agencies that serve the poor are struggling mightily.
Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) and other Jewish nonprofits have recently lost millions in government funding at a time when demand for their services has skyrocketed. That has strained their ability to care for the indigent and threatens the health of existing programs.
A Kidney for Chana
Chana Bogatz is 5 years old, and she loves cutting and pasting paper, playing with her brothers and sisters and having \”Happy Birthday\” sung to her.
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