Telescoping a planned two-day visit into one day to keep his datewith the Jordanian monarch, Netanyahu displayed unflagging stamina, aquick sense of humor, and considerable deftness in turning asideunpleasant questions from polite but generally undemonstrativeaudiences.
The big stories of the year were not Jew vs. Black, or Jew vs.Gentile, but Jew vs. Jew — a continual war of words fought overreligion, sex, politics and history. At least we can\’t be accused ofpettiness.
For Friedman, the CyberPeace idea began in September 1993 with thehistoric White House handshake between Israeli Prime Minister YitzhakRabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. The Internet projectcrystallized after Friedman\’s own handshake with Rabin one morning inNovember 1994.
It is our Jewish concern for human welfare that takes the rabbis where the needs exist. It is the United Jewish Fund\’s concern for justice and human need that directs Federation support to the chaplaincy program.
Mosk is California history with a heartbeat. He\’s the lone Democrat on the Court, its only liberal, and a living reminder of the greatest era in California legal history when our Court was the finest in the nation, a bellwether for individual liberties and establishing legal principles often followed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sometimes we all need a good nudge before we do the right thing.
Who shall live? Who shall die? And what do weleave each other? Here are three whose lives touched mine, gone thisyear. Their names are part of my Yizkor prayers.
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