I would take my mom against Clint Eastwood in any movie. Sure, he usually plays a grizzled, gunslinger with cat-like reflexes and something to prove, but if you cross my mother, you will find yourself, like the title of Clint\’s greatest Western, \”Unforgiven.\”
Anyone who cares about the future of Jewish life in Los Angeles eventually explodes in frustration over the community\’s inability to tap its own enormous wealth.
It\’s gotten pretty lonely.
A convention of Democrats who still support the Iraq war could be held, if not in a phone booth, then in a medium-sized walk-in closet.
I don\’t embarrass easily. But the Union for Reform Judaism\’s (URJ) recent resolution calling for an \”expeditious withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq\” did the trick.
When Dr. Rick Hodes prepares a to-do list, it doesn\’t look like anybody else\’s.
Standing at Israel\’s Alumot Dam, a 30-minute walk south from the Sea of Galilee, it\’s a typical midwinter day: deep blue sky, birds everywhere and a brisk breeze that carries a nauseating stench. Reduced to a thin stream by this point, the Jordan River stops. A few feet south of the dam, untreated sewage gushes directly into the riverbed.
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