Times are changing, and the Times, with circulation and advertising dropping, can no longer afford to be so high and mighty. At long last, the paper is going to juice up its Web site, and community input like your synagogue discussion meeting and your opinions and activities may be a big part of it.
Community Briefs
There is no unabridged database of rabbinic sexual abusers. But there is the Awareness Center. It\’s not a physical place, but a Baltimore post office box, cellphone number and Web site.
Don\’t have time to shlep to a museum? Too tired to remember if the free museum day is the first or second Tuesday of the month? Want to conquer a large, overwhelming exhibit in small, 15-minute intervals? Then bring the museum to your desktop and browse at your own pace.
Get them while they\’re young. The Israeli embassy has just launched a new Web site, and the hasbarah — an Israeli word which means public relations as well as propaganda — is aimed at children.
I knew better. I had about as much business being there as an elderly tourist has of being on Skid Row after midnight with a map in his hand and a blank cashier\’s check taped to his forehead. I was in grave danger of a psychological mugging, and I knew it.
I kept telling myself to walk away, hail an emotional cab and get out fast, but I couldn\’t. The pull was too strong. I had to know.
Am I annoying?
Recently, though, La Voz has published scathing anti-Semitic remarks that have as its targets the L.A. Jewish community.
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