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November 10, 2005

Yo, God!

As a 50-year-old white high school teacher, I\’m well outside the hip-hop demographic. I can\’t dance, have increasingly little fashion sense, and can\’t pull off the permanent scowl required by the true hip-hoppers. But here I am, in the packed and noisy Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, wondering if these two Jewish guys got some innate rhythm sense that I don\’t. And wondering if I can stand the embarrassing spectacle if it turns out that they don\’t.

JDL’s Krugel Killed in Phoenix Prison

If Earl Krugel stood for anything, it was the principle that Jews should never retreat, never back down from a hostile world. The former Jewish Defense League (JDL) stalwart and his cohorts vocally, provocatively and sometimes violently fought back over decades of political activism.

Clinton Still Can’t Figure Arafat

Although he left the White House nearly five years ago, former President Bill Clinton is still deeply concerned about the Middle East and remains puzzled by his last-minute failure to advance peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Seniors Seek Loving Hands, Home

When Arden Realty Chairman and CEO Richard Ziman\’s elderly father was beginning to fade about 10 years ago, the father made a simple request. \”\’If I begin to lose it, take me there,\’\” said the father, as recounted by his son. \”\’I will never be in better hands and with better people who will take better care of me.\’\” Since 1912, those better hands have been at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging.

In the eyes of American and Torah laws, Williams should die for his heinous crimes.

In the case of the People v. Williams, the facts are quite clear. A jury convicted Stanley Tookie Williams of the execution-style murder of 23-year-old Albert Owens during a robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Whittier. The jury also convicted him of murdering the owners of a Los Angeles motel, Tsai-Shai Yang, 62, and Yen-I Yang, 65, and their 42-year-old daughter, Yee Chen Lin, in the course of a robbery two weeks later. The American justice system has been patient and thorough, and its verdict is clear: It is legal, proper and high time that Williams should die.

Libby, Judaism and the Leak Probe

When Joshua Muravchik, perhaps the pre-eminent expert on the interventionist foreign policy that has become known as neo-conservatism, was looking for non-Jewish neo-cons to prove that the movement isn\’t pervasively Jewish, he naturally included Lewis Libby.

Fraud Arrest at Kabbalah Centre

Tel Aviv police have arrested the director of the Israel Kabbalah Centre, following complaints that he had fraudulently exploited a dying cancer patient and her husband.

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