Elliott Goldstein grew up in a two-and-a-half room apartment in a section of Brooklyn populated by Jews, Syrians and Italians, the only child of a garment industry production manager and his wife. Both parents were born in the United States, but his grandparents emigrated from Russia, the Ukraine and Poland.
John F. Kennedy once said, \”When written in Chinese, the word \’crisis\’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.\”
Life is full of change — in fact, one of the only things we can predict and count on in life is that things won\’t stay the same. For many of us, this is exemplified in our work. Indeed, statistics suggest that most adults will experience five to 12 careers or job changes in a lifetime.
An Israeli commission of inquiry held Sharon, who was Israel\’s defense minister at the time, indirectly responsible for not anticipating the carnage. Sharon was forced to resign, which, at the time, seemed to end his political career.
In an interview, Jeffrey Gurock, a New York City-area resident, says that this is a book he has been thinking about for almost his entire adult life and spent the last five years working on. His passion for the subject is clear.
We\’re not saying we believe any of this, mind you, but, yes, Jews, too, like to peek at horoscopes. But up until now, something\’s been missing — that Jewish touch. Sure, you could count on Bubbe and Zayde to dispense career advice and to forecast general doom, but that hardly suffices. And, yes, there are always those well-meaning, pushy relatives to talk up eligible singles as the man or woman of your future.
The 2006 edition of Jewish baseball cards features \”newly discovered\” Jewish players and Jewish players from the 1940s women\’s league. The set of 55 also includes cards for the 13 Jews who played last year in the major leagues
As the owner of Studio 613 — located on South Robertson Boulevard, between Olympic and Pico boulevards — Friedman has found her niche. Her women-only Pilates venue is providing a safe space for Jews and others to get in shape while maintaining their modesty.
Competition for postings to Los Angeles is fierce within the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and two young diplomats who made the grade, Yaron Gamburg and Gilad Millo, have joined the staff of the consulate general here.
Dowd\’s basic theory posits that \”The Rules\” — that once-silly guidebook on how to entrap a man, which is now read nonironically, as in The Torah of dating — was just the beginning.
During his nine-year tenure as Caltech president, 67-year old David Baltimore translated many of his family\’s principles into practice, on top of raising the university\’s already elite level of scientific research and education. He showed a keen interest in the quality of student life through improved housing and a multimillion dollar student activities fund, and raised the profile and number of women on the faculty and in the student body.
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