Leo Cohen wanted to see my PalmPilot.
\”How do you put in the data?\” he asked.
We were just completing our pre-fast family dinner, and I\’d taken out my snazzy, whiz-bang electronic calendar to demonstrate it to Leo\’s son-in-law, Sam, an astronomer who gets his data from the sky, not from bytes in his Palm.
But if Sam was blasé, Leo was emphatic.
When Los Angeles artist Victor Raphael was a boy, he gazed at the biblical murals at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and pondered the divine. His cosmic musings, in the age of Apollo and Sputnik, led him to dream of becoming an astronaut. But when the need for eyeglasses made that dream impossible, he invented another way to visit the stars.
The Milken Community High School celebrated the completion of its campus construction Sunday, putting the final touches on the nation\’s largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school — and its most high-tech — bar none.
A new sophisticated computer database may help theheirs of Holocaust victims receive the benefits of insurance policiestaken out by long-deceased relatives.
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