The Circuit
Michael Aushenker
August 22, 2002
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held its annual Deborah Awards, honoring women of achievement — an evening at the Regent Beverly Wilshire emceed by Arianna Huffington.
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Preschool Students Guide Curriculum
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
August 22, 2002
Strolling through the classrooms of the Stephen S. Wise Early Education Center is like walking through a museum.
Eulogies:Irwin M. Weinstein
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2002
Irwin M. Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and its Los Angeles chapter, died July 21 of a stroke and kidney failure. He was 76.
The Circuit
Michael Aushenker
August 23, 2001
Erin Brockovich was the keynote speaker at the sixth Annual Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) \”Women of Action\” luncheon, which took place Aug. 8 at the Beverly Hilton.
A Sit-up a Day…
Charles Downey
August 2, 2001
In the United States alone, researchers at six major medical centers have found that weight lifting and other forms of exercise can literally turn back the clock.
Uniting to Find a Cure
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
June 21, 2001
Bob Dole. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Harry Belafonte. Robert Goulet. The willingness of such well-known figures to make public their battle with prostate cancer has brought visibility to an issue that until the last few years, lacked the attention, funding and research interest befitting a disease that will strike more than 180,000 men in the United States this year.
Increase in Hate
Mike Levy
April 5, 2001
Though the number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in California was down slightly, from 275 in 1999 to 257 in 2000, figures across the nation show a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to the ADL\’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents.
Parents Sue Over Canavan Test Patent
David Evanier
January 25, 2001
The families of children with Canavan disease are suing the researchers who found the gene responsible for the illness, using blood and tissue from two children in Chicago and other children who died of the disease.
Rescuing the Spiritual Elite
Michael Berenbaum
December 14, 2000
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of Vaad-Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1933-1945, Efraim Zuroff, Yeshiva University Press, 316 pages, $39.50
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