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Bilingual Blues

Joel Kotkin June 19, 1997

Here we go again. For the third time in four years, Californians are about to be treated to another racially tinged slugfest, this time over bilingual education.

Labor’s Move Toward Center

Eric Silver June 12, 1997

After a year of licking the wounds of electoral defeat, the Israeli left has crowned a new leader who radiates an aura of victory and an appetite for power. The campaign of the year 2000 has begun.

As the first anniversary of Binyamin Netanyahu\’s election as prime minister approached this week, Israel looked back on a tumultuous year in which the public was more sharply divided and over a wider span of issues — political, social, and religious — than ever before.

UP FRONT

Jewish Journal May 8, 1997

No Jewish cookbook of this year, or any year, for that matter, compares with Claudia Roden\’s \”The Book of Jewish Food\” (Knopf), but two new local additions to the genre have plenty of charms on their own.