Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is making a truly impressive run for the White House, and in doing so is being considered by many as America\’s first mainstream \”black\” candidate — in other words a \”black\” candidate not running on a near-exclusive agenda of identity politics.
Commercial space interests are now playing a critical role in the dawn of the second space age — one built on business ventures and international cooperation. Instead of Hilton and Pan Am, the corporate names associated with the commercialization of space include Budget Suites and Virgin.
According to advance hints, the film is guaranteed to enrage Jews, gays, blacks, women, cowboys, Christians and college boys — not to mention Kazakhstanis.
\”It\’s going to be harder and harder to be on the left and be pro-Israel,\” Kotkin said. \”I think many Jews are going to have to choose between their leftism and their Judaism.\”
Why is the Louisville case so important? Why should we, as Jews, care about its outcome, especially if our children may not even attend public schools? Is affirmative action even relevant in 2006, in our schools, in our world? What are the benefits of diversity in education anyway?
I must admit that in countless trips to Europe, I had carefully avoided visiting Germany, having no desire whatsoever to see the Fatherland that had left me with such dark memories. But then came the summer of 2006, and as a football (soccer to you) devotee, I headed to Germany to cover the World Cup for a Southern California radio station.
The South Central Farmers group and supporters have emphatically denied engaging in anti-Jewish posturing, noting that many in their ranks are Jewish, including rabbis. They accuse Horowitz of playing the anti-Semitism card to divert criticism from him and to splinter an alliance of Westside Jews, environmentalists and South L.A. farmers that coalesced around saving the farm.
Alfred Uhry\’s \”Without Walls,\” starring Laurence Fishburne, deals not only with race but also sexuality.
The Bruin Walk display was one of the events organized by Muslim, Arab and supporting students as part of the weeklong \”Israel and Palestine: Obstacles to Peace\” program.
The moral — these many years later — is not immediately obvious. Yes, it\’s about what one person can do, but it is about much more than that. It\’s about leadership and about community organization
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