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Jewish Journal
January 22, 2004
I was deeply disturbed to read Marc Ballon\’s article on \”Low Wages Force Workers to Struggle\” (Jan. 2). Where is the outcry from the community?
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Stanley Hirsh
Rob Eshman
March 27, 2003
Stanley Hirsh shared a vision of a newspaper that could serve as a kind of hub for an increasingly diverse and far-flung community.
Charming? Not the Word for Politics
Leonard Fein
January 23, 2003
Plato described democracy as \”a charming form of government.\” Well, perhaps in ancient Greece there wasn\’t much else to charm away the days.
Education Activists Face Off
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
November 14, 2002
Los Angeles Board of Education member David Tokofsky has always taken pride in being a Jewish representative in an area that was overwhelmingly Latino.
Money for Something
Rob Eshman
October 3, 2002
Abraham was rich. Jesus was poor. That fact says a lot about the relationship between Jews and money.
Love for Sale
J. D. Smith
August 9, 2001
Too often these days my reach exceeds my grasp, which is why I\’ve come to realize: I need a wealthy woman to take care of me.
Making the List
Rob Eshman
May 24, 2001
The May 21 issue of the Los Angeles Business Journal features the paper\’s annual list of \”The 50 Wealthiest Angelenos.\” More than half the people listed, in fact, close to 60 percent, are Jewish. In a county where Jews number about 520,000, or just 5 percent out of a population of 10 million, that statistic begs examination, if not wonder.
L.A.’s Ultimate Power Broker
Joel Kotkin
December 11, 1997
For most of this century, Los Angeles has been a city of two elites — one predominately WASPish, the other predominately Jewish. Although they occasionally collaborated on projects such as the MusicCenter, the two worlds remained largely separate and indifferent to each other, living in a ruling-class version of institutional apartheid.
Entrepreneurial Philanthropy, the New Charity
Jewish Journal
November 13, 1997
On a chilly autumn morning in late October, in a rooftop sukkahatop New York\’s Abraham Joshua Heschel School, a small group ofrabbis, Hebrew teachers and millionaire investors joined hands tomark what their leader called a \”defining point in American Jewishphilanthropy\”: an $18 million fund to help create new Jewish dayschools around the country, paid for by a \”partnership\” among a dozenof America\’s richest Jewish families.
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