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Respite From Terror

It is Monday afternoon at Universal Studios, and the place is swarming with camera-toting tourists, screaming children, beleaguered adults and bored-looking park staff. Prison-garbed Beetlejuice is flashing his blackened teeth as he amuses tourists with his banter, and the cheerful strains of the Universal Studios theme music are being piped loudly through the sound system, camouflaging upsets and distress with ersatz melodic joy.

UCLA Hillel Mourns Victims

It was a postcard-perfect afternoon outside Kerckhoff Hall on UCLA\’s campus on Tuesday, Aug. 6., but Debra Bach could not stop crying.

Your Letters

Was the Hebrew University bombing not an attack against the United States and its citizens (\”Terror on Campus,\” Aug. 2)?

Victims of Terror

Vered Kashani, 29, was on the phone arranging hotel rooms for 22 Israeli terror victims scheduled to visit Los Angeles on Aug. 15, when she glanced at her computer and saw there had been an attack in the Emmanuel settlement in Israel.

Bush Ex Machina

The low point of my week is reading the copy for our pages devoted to victims of Palestinian terror and violence.

Volunteer of Hope

Anna Krakovich\’s kind eyes and bright smile don\’t express the horror she experienced that tragic day eight years ago.

Community Briefs

A Passover appeal by Rabbi David Wolpe at Sinai Temple raised $700,000 in pledges for organizations in Israel helping victims of terror.

Heroic Actions of the Few

An upcoming television special and a recently formed educational foundation are out to change the stereotype of Jews as passive victims of the Holocaust, by documenting the little-known feats of Jewish partisans who fought behind enemy lines.

Indirect Victims

An alarming number of at-risk children are among the Jewish victims of Argentina\’s economic collapse.

The Wounded Have Names

Last Saturday night, someone told me 85 people had been killed by a suicide bomber in Haifa. I ran to the computer to check cnn.com, and for an instant was relieved to discover the death toll was in fact 15.

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