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The index-card box is one of the most important items in your home and is referred to each time an affair is coming up — as well as when you need a gift for that person\’s party.
In June, the Journal incorrectly reported the 2003 results as slightly down based on incomplete figures that did not reflect the final campaign push.
Stanley Hirsh shared a vision of a newspaper that could serve as a kind of hub for an increasingly diverse and far-flung community.
Physicians played a significant role in the Holocaust, and today\’s doctors can learn from the ethical failures of that period, according to an article recently published by Dr. Joel Geiderman, co-chair of the emergency department (ED) of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
In \”Physician Complicity in the Holocaust: Historical Review and Reflections on Emergency Medicine in the 21st Century,\” Geiderman sets out a series of moral failures he attributes to German physicians before, during and after WWII. Published in the March issue of Academic Emergency Medicine journal, the two-part article enumerates ethical challenges requiring greater vigilance from today\’s physicians.
Maybe the post-apocalyptic parking situation was a tip-off. The overcapacity of automobiles surrounding Woodley Park seemed to confirm that this year\’s Israeli Independence Day Festival outdid itself in terms of spectacle and attendance. An estimated 50,000 attended, festival director Yoram Gutman confirmed, making this year\’s festival the biggest yet. As Gutman told The Journal, \”There are so many Israelis who live in the Valley, so maybe that has something to do with it. I never saw so many Persian Jews and American Jews.\”
After eight years, I\’m leaving The Jewish Journal.
along with news of its editor\’s death, the YiddishForward of May 15 carried front-page reports about India\’s nucleartests, the U.S.-Israeli diplomatic crisis, the naming of a specialprosecutor to probe the secretary of labor, and Israel\’s new militarychief of staff.
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