You’d have to describe Ruth Gavison as feisty, because the English language has no other way to describe a fearless, brilliant, energetic gray-haired, 65-year-old\nwoman, other than to liken her to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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When I tell people I served on a jury for a nine-day gang-related murder trial, the first reaction I get is, “You couldn’t get out of it?”
Political experts are flooding Western governments — primarily the United States — with advice on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear threat and the current\npolitical uprising. Some, including those on the American right, advocate adopting aggressive economic or even military policies. Others, including many reformers within Iran, advocate total noninterference.\n
He stood before an open valley, strewn with mutilated bodies and the broken shards of the ruined Temple. He was suddenly addressed by an anguished voice:\n
“Almost Dead” by Assaf Gavron (Harper Perennial, $14.99) is artfully constructed as a kind of literary time bomb, an object of irresistible fascination even as we dread the explosion that will surely come.
University of California, Irvine (UCI) Chancellor Michael Drake condemned remarks endorsing terrorism made by Amir Abdel Malik Ali while the Oakland-based pro-Palestinian activist spoke on campus last week. Drake’s May 15 statement decried Ali’s claim to support terrorist groups who call for Israel’s destruction as a breach of UCI’s commitment to values and civility.\n
A mumps outbreak among observant Jews on the East Coast appears to be spreading to the Los Angeles Jewish community.
Planning a wedding takes thoughtfulness, patience and support (not to mention a massive savings account). And when it comes to the time, date and pace of a Jewish wedding, precision and a schedule can be a couple’s best friend.\n
The bride and groom, in their 20s, ordered a wedding cake adorned with their image, but unbeknownst to them it arrived on their wedding day featuring an image of an elderly couple with the words, “Mazal tov Bubbe and Zeide on your 60th Wedding Anniversary.”
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