With the candidates for Los Angeles mayor increasingly invoking the name of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on the campaign trail, a buzz is breaking out over whether Schwarzenegger will endorse any of the challengers to Mayor James Hahn.
There have been hundreds, even thousands, of articles in the American press regarding an FBI investigation involving the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
The outpouring of international charity for the victims of the Asian disasters is a clear sign that we humans are capable of enormous empathy
and generosity
In a passage from the Talmud (Makkoth 24a), Moses\’ blessing in Deuteronomy is cited: \”And Israel dwells in safety alone.\” The Prophet Amos arose to revoke that dubious blessing: \”Oh God, cease, I beseech you!
We\’ve just paid $3,000 for a new mattress.
\”It\’s not a mattress,\” the salesman sniffed. \”It\’s a sleeping system.\” His accent
Unlike the bar and bat mitzvah parties of my youth, which were often like pint-sized weddings, where barely a dozen preteen friends and a smattering of cousins ate grown-up food, mingled, and danced awkwardly among a sea of elders
Boys can be squirrely when any adult visits a classroom to lecture. That\’s why when Ursula Bacon comes in to talk about her Holocaust experience, she tells stories about how she once had a cockroach for a pet, and that she didn\’t have use of a toilet for eight years.
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