Letters
Jewish Journal
September 29, 2005
I support Rabbi David Wolpe\’s position entirely (\”We Must Condemn Heartless Bilge,\” Sept. 16). Rav Ovadiah Yosef has made Israel look very bad.
Category
September 29, 2005
A Picture of Hate
Tad Daley
September 29, 2005
I attended the \”Liberation!\” exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance — photos and objects and footage from the moments in the spring of 1945 when the doors of the Nazi concentration camps were thrown open to the world, and when those few remaining within were set free.
A Smile Can Be Key to Temple Security
Ron Wolfson
September 29, 2005
The High Holidays bring a special dilemma to American congregations. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur attract more Jews to synagogue — and more attention to American Jews in general — than at any other time of year.
We Must Heal Divide Over Life Views
Rabbi Eliyahu Stern
September 29, 2005
As we stand at the dawn of the 21st century, a perhaps even more fundamental issue divides the American body politic. From stem cells, abortion and human cloning to the Schiavo case and physician-assisted suicides, the question of life has become this generation\’s great ideological battle ground.
Happy Non-Anniversary
Michael Rose
September 29, 2005
On the day our wedding was to have been, I was intensely aware of the time when we would have been standing under the chuppah, without seeing a clock or watch. My breath stopped, and I stood still, feeling the growing ache in my chest. I spent the day alone, and I cried. And I thought about cosmic meaning and why this was happening to me. And then everything was fine.
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Rob Eshman
September 29, 2005
A foursome was tramping the fairway toward the seventh hole at Hillcrest Country Club last Saturday when two coyotes appeared from out of the shrubs.
Life at a Standstill
Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin
September 29, 2005
The recent tragic hurricanes in the South have been difficult to watch.
What a Difference a Day Makes
Tom Tugend
September 29, 2005
It\’s the contrasts that make life interesting.
Blaze Touches Off Tense Moments
Adam Wills
September 29, 2005
Jeff and Liz Kramer and their three teenage sons could only watch and wait. The Sutton Valley residents paced the sidewalk in front of their home on Thursday morning, watching as the head of the Topanga Canyon Fire crept along a ridge less than 800 yards away, consuming brush and sending up billows of smoke.
The Circuit
Jewish Journal
September 29, 2005
It was a busy few days for attorney Andrew Friedman. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed him fire commissioner and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors nominated Friedman to serve as commissioner of the L.A. County Judicial Procedures Commission.
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