\”I am very proud of my Jewish heritage,\” Jason Pullman said, talking to The Journal from the Clear Channel offices (Star\’s parent company). \”I used to use stage names, but then as of four or five years ago [I decided] I am myself, and that is only person that I want to be.\”
I understand that by many peoples\’ standards, Stern is indecent, but he has been so for a long, long time. The incident that prompted Clear Channel to dump him, and for which the FCC may levy fines, has been so commonplace on his program that it could have been mistaken for a promo spot.
Karen Levine never had plans to write a book.
Then in 2001, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio producer came across an article in the Canadian Jewish News about a young Japanese woman, urged on by Tokyo schoolchildren studying the Holocaust, who traveled halfway round the world to find the owner of a child\’s battered suitcase. That child, Hana Brady, had died in Auschwitz at age 13, but the determined young woman tracked down Hana\’s brother George, who had survived Auschwitz and found a new life in Toronto.
Levine made a radio documentary chronicling the meeting between Fumiko Ishioka and George Brady, and that led her to write a children\’s book, \”Hana\’s Suitcase,\” a gripping detective story and an inspirational saga.
I have concerns about Arnold Schwarzenegger other than the fact his father was a Nazi (\”Arnold\’s Challenge\” Aug. 29).
Of her conversion to Judaism, Laura Schlessinger said, \”I felt that I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end, and not feeling return, not feeling connected, not feeling that inspired. Trust me, I\’ve talked to rabbis, I\’ve read, I\’ve prayed, I\’ve agonized and I came to this place anyway — which is not exactly back to the beginning, but more in that direction than not.\”
"The Palestinian uprising and subsequent Israeli offensive in the West Bank stirred enormous sympathy for the Palestinians throughout the Arab world…. Over the past year, scores of Egypt\’s top singers have come out with songs about the Palestinian uprising.
Michael Prywes was 24 when he decided to make a film.
\”I\’m still only in the thinking and talking stage,\” said the outspoken Republican. \”No exploratory committee has been formed. I won\’t announce that until I am close to being certain. I don\’t want to disappoint people who have invested hopes.\”
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