“We” Judaism
Marlene Adler Marks
October 4, 2001
NOW THAT THE HIGH HOLY days are over, we can begin to appreciate how the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington may alter American Jewish life.
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Fuzz
Marlene Adler Marks
September 6, 2001
A day before I left for a vacation cruise to Alaska, I looked in the mirror and spied, atop my clean, bald head — Hair! There wasn\’t much of it, standing less than one-sixteenth of an inch tall. But when I ran my hand over my crown, I felt the delicious tickle of stubble.
\”It\’s back!\” I cried to my friend Susan, who was lending me a gown for the cruise\’s formal night. We jumped up and down the way we did in high school when the latest \”he\” called. I\’ve been a cue ball since Day 12 of my first round of chemo. All my hair is gone, including eyebrows and lashes. The only really bad part, aside from looking like a Conehead, is the way drafts of cold air make my forehead feel glacial. In Alaska, I spent time looking for bald eagles, seeking to join their minyan.
And Many More
Marlene Adler Marks
August 9, 2001
There\’s nothing like completing chemotherapy to spice up a birthday party. Last weekend, 40 of my dearest friends performed a commemorative Havdalah ceremony to mark a really great CT scan and year 53. My \”re-birthday\” celebration was just the ticket, restorative not only for me but also for the extended community that has seen me through my struggle with lung cancer.
Beyond Stem Cells
Marlene Adler Marks
July 26, 2001
Were you queasy last week, when U.S. senators quoted the Bible in their effort to stop potentially life-saving stem cell research?
The Strongest Link
Marlene Adler Marks
July 19, 2001
No matter how well things go in chemotherapy, the truth is, cancer always makes new demands on you. You can\’t afford to be a k\’nocker, pretending you know what you\’re doing or what you\’re ready for. It\’s not as if you are in charge.
New Directions
Marlene Adler Marks
June 7, 2001
Who\’s the big winner in Tuesday\’s Los Angeles mayoral election? My bet is real estate developer Steve Soboroff. James Kenneth Hahn may be an old-line Democrat, but he benefited mightily from the silence maintained by the wealthy Republican businessman, who had come in third in the April primary.
The Comfort Zone
Marlene Adler Marks
May 31, 2001
Those of us with a sense of Los Angeles history approach the June 5 election with trepidation. No one wants a repeat of the first Sam Yorty/Tom Bradley race in 1969, with its bitter overlay of race-baiting. That\’s one reason why throughout most of the campaign the candidates have wisely lowered their rhetoric, stressing their similarities rather than differences. As Los Angelenos consider picking the first Latino mayor in the modern era, Tuesday\’s election, pitting former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa against City Attorney James Hahn, already has, if anything, too much historic significance.
A Jewish ‘Sopranos’?
Marlene Adler Marks
May 24, 2001
In my house last Sunday evening Tony Soprano easily defeated Anne Frank as \”must-see TV.\” Yes, even in the home of committed Jews, the rancid affairs of a New Jersey Mafia family beat out the young girl of the Holocaust. The question is, why?
Jewish Big Time
Marlene Adler Marks
May 3, 2001
A month after Passover, the winds have not yet died down from the \”Wolpe Hurricane.\”
Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Westwood caused a stir when he asserted, in earshot of a Los Angeles Times reporter, that the Exodus story can still inspire us even if, as some archaeologists assert, the story of the liberation from Egypt is not true. Rabbi Wolpe\’s remarks ended up on the Times\’ front page during Passover and became grist for sermons and Torah study all over town.
Freedom. Empathy. Pain.
Marlene Adler Marks
April 5, 2001
My fireplace mantle is stuffed &\’9;with get-well cards. They come from people I know and many I\’ve never met. One of them might have come from you. In the two months since I started writing about my lung cancer, the cards have been flowing in, plus an equal number or more of e-mails. They touch me deeply.
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