Time Is More Than Money
Mike Levy
February 8, 2001
Everybody wants to talk to Randall Kaplan, co-founder of Internet-content software company Akamai Technologies and founder of the investment network Jump Investors.
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I Wish It Were More
Marlene Adler Marks
December 21, 2000
Maybe it\’s a new kind of learning disability, Adverse Gift Disorder.
Got Gelt?
Rabbi Daniel Brenner
December 14, 2000
Teaching the next generation about money — its value, what to do with it, how to use it — is not such an easy task.
Sex, Drugs and…Lots of Jews?
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2000
In the introduction to his new book, Guy Oseary – the maverick Maverick music exec responsible for signing Alanis Morrissette and Prodigy onto Madonna\’s label (which he now runs) – writes, \”I was born in Israel and moved to the United States when I was 8 years old. I can still remember how excited I was when I learned that some of my favorite musicians were Jewish – it made me feel proud of my Judaic background and where I came from.\”
The Contender
Wendy J. Madnick
October 26, 2000
It is three weeks before Election Day. Doctor and candidate Sid Gold sits in a booth at Jerry\’s Famous Deli in Woodland Hills and orders a large breakfast. He looks like he could use refueling. The 57-year-old father of four is running a difficult campaign against Rep. Howard \”Buck\” McKeon for the 25th Congressional District, and already on this Sunday morning he has been up walking precincts in North Hills and Sepulveda.
Foregoing the Test-Drive
Mark Firestone
January 6, 2000
It may come as a surprise that in today\’s post-sexual revolution world there are still men and women who don\’t have sex before their wedding day.
Staying Put
Burt Prelutsky
November 25, 1999
I understand that most people like to see the sights for themselves. Me, I\’d rather look at the picture.
Israel: Land of Sustainable Growth?
Avi Machlis
November 18, 1999
Rosy government forecasts have been backed by a series of recent reports issued by leading financial analysts, who see Israel\’s economy pulling out of the slowdown that has pushed unemployment up to nearly 9 percent since 1997.
Keiko Ibi’s “Personal” Journey
Curt Schleier
October 28, 1999
\”The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years,\” an 82-year-old man rinses out his dentures in his solitary apartment and longs for love and sex. Another elderly man laments that he has been impotent since receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
Selma, 73, discusses her sexless marriage, her affairs, the elderly man who tried to rape her and the hopelessness of living alone. \”Touching, it\’s what I miss,\” she confides. \”What I\’d really like is not the sex act itself. I just want to be held.\”
Greenlighting the Future of Jewish L.A.
Michael Aushenker
September 9, 1999
Lynne Sturt Weintraub had a problem. It involved what she prefers to call the \”chronologically gifted\” members of Temple Beth Zion, where she is co-president.
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