Proposition 77, the redistricting measure on next week\’s special elections ballot, is likely to shift considerably more Latino voters into Berman\’s district — and perhaps give rise to a viable Latino challenger.
Iran-Contra could make one believe that in Washington, D.C., it\’s not what you did, it\’s who you know. There was even an element of self-dealing on the part of the first President Bush, who set free insiders who would, as a result, never be tempted to disclose anything damaging about Bush\’s own record as vice president under Reagan.
Southern California rabbis used their Rosh Hashanah pulpits to speak on globalization, Africa\’s drought-ridden refugees and America\’s hurricane-drenched evacuees as well as Israel\’s Gaza pullout.
Where Jewish terrorist Eden Natan-Zada lived — first in Rishon L\’Tzion, then evidently in Tapuach — there is ostensibly an ideology that encourages the murders he committed last week in Shfaram.
One week, I would ambitiously attempt to devour the entire \”Box Car Children\” series; another I would host a Judy Blume marathon and vigilantly try to sneak the purportedly trashy \”Deenie\” home in between my \”Sheila the Great\” and \”Blubber.\”
With Palestinian terror groups generally committed to a lull in the fighting with Israel and Arab countries debating normalizing ties with the Jewish state, some in Israel see signs that the 57-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict finally may be winding down.
It was an invitation without an R.S.V.P. Come on over, President Bush told his newly elected Palestinian Authority counterpart — but let\’s wait to set a date. The check is in the mail, I\’m just not sure how much.
By chance, Bet Tzedek Legal Services sponsored a program on the American Patriot Act just about the same time readers were beginning to get their copies of Philip Roth\’s \”The Plot Against America.\”
Powerful women in Hollywood, back in 1978, were as prevalent as communists during the blacklist. Probably even less so. That\’s when Loreen Arbus came to town.
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