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The Class of ’93
As students around the Southland graduate and move beyond high school, The Journal sought out some of the outstanding Jewish high school seniors of 10 years ago, talking with five of the 13 valedictorians of the Class of 1993.
Hadassah Encourages Women to ‘Check Out’ Program
Despite winning a $5,900 grant in December 2001 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to present the program free to 2,000 students, Hadassah\’s Long Beach-Orange County chapter has, so far, found few takers.
Gambling Goodman
Oscar Goodman sure likes his Beefeater. So much so that this Las Vegas mayor had proposed to become a spokesman for the gin company for $100,000. The money, Goodman promised, would go to the city coffers.
The Secret History
\”The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People,\” by Jonathan Kirsch (Viking Press, $14.95).
Jonathan Kirsch lives a double life that many lawyers only dream of.
Inside Dating
When \”Inside Schwartz\” creator Stephen Engel was in college, dating was relatively easy. He\’d meet a girl in class, hang out — and presto! — he had a girlfriend.\n\nBut when Engel\’s college flame dumped him when he was 25, the Jewish writer entered alien territory: the singles scene. \”I didn\’t have a lot of experience formally calling women and asking them out,\” he says. \”I\’d never been \’fixed up.\’ I\’d never been on a blind date. I had some horrific experiences.\”
Advice From the Trenches
The statistics haven\’t changed much in the close to 30 years I\’ve been in practice. About 50 percent of all American marriages end in divorce. As a family law attorney, I work with people every day who are giving up on their dreams of marital bliss. And in many cases — for my client and for the well-being of children involved — ending the marriage is a good idea. Marriages that break up because of untreated physical abuse, gambling, drug and alcohol problems, and infidelity are often damaged beyond repair. In those cases it\’s usually best for everyone concerned if the marriage is dissolved, allowing the innocent spouse to move on with his or her life.
Whose Money?
Since 1996, Jewish groups and their lawyers have gone to the mat with the likes of the Germans, the Swiss and the French, extracting $9 billion in restitution for the evil wrought in Europe by Nazi forces and their collaborators.
Laborers File Suit for Wartime Injustices
Jews who worked as slave laborers during the Nazi era are one step closer to receiving some measure of compensation for their ordeal.
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