Jewish Research Calling
Julie Wiener
April 27, 2000
If you get a phone call in the next few months from a stranger with lots of questions, don\’t assume it\’s a telemarketer.
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The Man Behind the Vision
Elaine Schmidt
September 9, 1999
In fall 1994, UCLA hired Dr. Gerald Saul Levey to assume the newly merged role of provost of UCLA Medical Center and fourth dean of its top-rated medical school. Levey couldn\’t have picked a more precarious time for a job move.
Conquering A Disease
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
July 22, 1999
Los Angeles residents Pam and George Smith never expected to create a foundation that would raise more than $4 million for research.
Have Library, Must Travel
Naomi Pfefferman
June 17, 1999
To reach David Hirsch\’s narrow, cluttered office at UCLA, you traverse bare, labyrynthine corridors in the basement of the University Research Library.
Circle of Friends
Marlene Adler Marks
July 23, 1998
I see that it\’s time for the media to replay the perennial horror story known as The Dying Jew. \”The Vanishing Jew,\” by Alan Dershowitz, is a mea culpa over his son\’s intermarriage.
Pollsters in a Pickle
Jewish Journal
June 4, 1998
There\’s going to be a national Jewish population survey in the year 2000, and it\’s got researchers in one heck of a pickle.
Weathering the Crisis
Naomi Pfefferman
March 12, 1998
The City of Hope, the esteemed charity, cancer hospital and research center, is under attack. But supporters of the charity, whose roots run deep into the Jewish community, are coming to its defense.
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