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Ahmadinejad Dismisses Israeli Threats; Cluster Bombs Under Scrutiny
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L.A.’s Jews and other minorities: oh, how we’ve danced!
In Los Angeles, the most diverse city in the world, we Jews have grappled long and hard with our sense of place in America. Ultimately, having found our \”place in the sun,\” we have forged meaningful relations with many of the communities that make up this complicated goulash.
‘State Department for Jews’ Hits 100
In a meeting room with gold silk curtains and tiled walls, a delegation from the American Jewish Committee (AJC) takes their seats at a long, glass-topped table facing Tunisia\’s foreign minister and his aides. Soon the questions begin: When will Tunisia resume official relations with Israel? What is the country\’s stance on Iran?
Opportunities and Changes Abound
This month, as I started my work with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), my wife\’s father, Sol, celebrated his 90th birthday with his friends at Leisure World of Laguna Woods. Like many of us, Sol is a transplant to Orange County from Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and finally reaching this day at Leisure World.
We are a people that move as life changes. For Sol, this has been a fortunate journey, and he has his community to support him. For the rest of us, finding our place in a community of transplants can be a challenge.
Harder Choices
Little noted amid the full-frontal assault on Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott\’s (R-Miss.) latest sensationalistic folly was President George W. Bush\’s move to ease the flow of federal dollars to faith-based charities.
One American Muslim
Tashbih Sayyed told me he has cried three times in his adult life: once when his father died, once when his mother died and once when he had to sell his house.
Many Jews OK With Proposition K
The recent publicity centering around Hamilton High School\’s Jewish parents\’ disapproval of Proposition K — the $3.35 billion school bond issue — gave the impression that the Jewish community was against the proposition.
New Coalition Opposes Intermarriage
In the face of widespread popular Jewish acceptance of intermarriage and a sense that the Jewish community\’s leaders have given up any effort to oppose it, a group of 25 Jewish rabbis, intellectuals, lay leaders and communal affairs professionals is galvanizing to fight for change.
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