While perhaps not as violent as the wars in the Balkans or the Mideast, the domestic wars between Jewish mothers and daughters has been painful in its own right, deeply entrenched in our psychological makeup.
Now that hate has once again claimed the lives of innocent students, dumbfounded activists, teachers, clergy and politicians are searching for ways to stem the tide of teen-age violence.
Once upon a time, we celebrated holidays and honored men and women and moments from our past as though they were charged with meaning. Armistice Day, Independence Day, Lincoln\’s birthday.
Whatever others may say of it, Jewish history will surely record 1998 as the Year of Bill and Bibi.
The JGSLA will host the 18th annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy in Los Angeles, which begins this Sunday (July 12) and runs through July 17 at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Have we the tools to meet the impending crises of environmental degradation, population explosion, nuclear proliferation, international terrorism, ethnic and racial slaughter?
Jewish roots in predominantly Catholic Poland can be traced back to the 11th century. But when an estimated 88 percentof the 3.3 million Jews in Poland died in the Holocaust, the country\’s thriving Yiddish theater, literature and culture ceased to exist as well.
The ruin of Oscar Wilde, the brilliant19th-century writer and wit, began with a misspelled note scrawled ona calling card: \”Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite\” (sic).
The histories of nation-building are never simple.The place of the Indians within the American experience reveals themoral ambiguity of that nation\’s struggle for sovereignty. Facing thereality of the past often means facing the reality of moralcompromise.
Mickey Weiss, everybody\’s favorite mensch and philanthropist, diedmore than a year ago, but his good works go on.
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