Vote Confirms Westside, Valley Split
Raphael J. Sonenshein
March 24, 2005
The gap between Westside and Valley Jewish voters goes back at least to the busing controversy of the late 1970s.
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There’s No Santa, but Keep It Quiet
Julie M. Brown
December 16, 2004
It was in 1998 that my son, Sammy, broke out of his cocoon and started kindergarten at our neighborhood school. Up until then, he had spent his entire tiny life surrounded by Jews.
Having left his Jewish preschool behind only a few months prior, he had little knowledge of his own minority status in the world, not to mention in our South Bay community. But that didn\’t matter to him, at least as far as I knew.
Brown vs. Board of Ed. — 50 Years Later
Amanda Susskind
May 13, 2004
\”We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of \’separate but equal\’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.\”
Turn the Tide
Rob Eshman
September 25, 2003
One of the best things about being the editor of a Jewish paper is I get to meet a lot of Jews.
15 Years Ago: Immigrants and the Recall
Raphael J. Sonenshein
September 18, 2003
The immigration issue burst into state politics in 1994 when unpopular Republican Gov. Pete Wilson used Proposition 187, a measure to deny public services to undocumented residents, to save his reelection.
Home of the Free
Joseph Hanania
May 29, 2003
Anti-Semitism, I learned on a recent trip through France, is alive and pervasive. Nor, I discovered with some surprise, was the rabbi or those in charge of the synagogue overreacting.
Holocaust Programs Focus on Education
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
April 24, 2003
What do the Kurds have to do with Holocaust? More than you might think.
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