Masada Madness
Avi Kostner, the New Jersey man who said he killed his two children because he couldn\’t bear to let his ex-wife raise them as Christians, is himself dead.
Avi Kostner, the New Jersey man who said he killed his two children because he couldn\’t bear to let his ex-wife raise them as Christians, is himself dead.
On Salah a-Din Street, the main street on the Arab side of thecapital, the spirit was very different. People kept their heads down,aware that they were being watched, aware that the Jews weren\’t toofond of them these days.
Like the priest in her latest movie, director Lesli Linka Glatter is finding her own faith.
Long obscured by its tongue-twister name andmisunderstood ideology, Reconstructionism is coming on strong.
J.J. Goldberg\’s column on Israeli Finance MinisterNeeman\’s proposal to gradually phase out American economic aid toIsrael missed several key points, leading readers to draw skewedconclusions (\”Foreign Aid as Shell Game,\” Feb. 13).
After spending months moderating aweekly chat room in America Online\’s Jewish section, I finally foundEmes, someone I could really talk to.
Re: Joel Kotkin\’s piece on AJ Congress and the sweatshop Commission (\”A Stitch in Time May Save Jobs,\” Nov. 7): While I believe there is a role for Jewish activism on working conditions in the garment industry, I have voiced privately my concern that the make up of the AJ Congress commission was not as broad as it should be.
The largest Israeli mission ever launched by the Jewish FederationCouncil of Greater Los Angeles, and the biggest North Americancontingent this year, returned home last week, with organizers in astate bordering on euphoria and participants exhausted but mostlypleased with their experience.