An Irish multimillionaire pining for a London teacher offered her husband $1 million to divorce her in a real-life "Indecent Proposal" that has scandalized London\’s Orthodox Jewish community, according to a May 4 report in London\’s Sunday Times.
Peter Grant, veteran Los Angeles reporter, editor, public relations executive and Jewish community activist who was the first journalist to enter Japan after its surrender in 1945, died June 4 in San Diego at age 86.
A friend of mine and I were sitting at Canter\’s having lunch when we were discussing my dating life — or lack of it. Since he knows what a cool guy I am, he suggested that there was just one tactic to take — to make up an ex-wife and a divorce so that I could avoid the stigma of having never been married. He went a step better — he went for the widower concept, which I liked, and embellished with the death of my wife in a tragic car wreck. But here\’s the problem: It\’s not so much that I\’m against lying on principle, it has its place. It\’s just that I suck at it.
There\’s no denying that Fox\’s critically acclaimed \”24\” is a fast-moving show that, unlike other dramas, operates in \”real time\” — each 60-minute episode\’s action literally unfolds over an hour\’s time. \nBut what series co-creator Joel Surnow never anticipated was that his rookie show would move as fast in the real world: Not even halfway through its first season,\”24\” was nominated for Best TV Drama and Best Actor (Kiefer Sutherland)Golden Globes.Dark horse Sutherland won over perennial award show favorites Martin Sheen and James Gandolfini.\n\n
Early Tuesday morning, my wife and I stared dumbly at the television, mumbling words like hijacked, explosion, collapse. My daughter, 5, looked up from her cereal, confused and frustrated. What language are you speaking? she asked. They were words almost unspoken in American living rooms. But no longer.\n\n
Ruth Neal, coordinator of Ezras Bayis, has seen Orthodox womenwho have been bitten, shoved, slapped, punched, spit at, scalded withhot chicken soup, threatened with a gun, pushed down a flight ofstairs. Wood cut by Kathe Kollwitz from \”German ExpressionistWoodcuts,\” 1994.
Frankly, I\’m all for it.\n\nBut what about sports? Girls? Humvees and washboard abs? This column\’s supposed to parse the experience of a Jewish Guy in the world. But some guys have called, confused. What\’s all this about singing baby boys to sleep? About tender talks and the salve of toddler hugs? It\’s all very sweet, but, guy, hey guy, they ask, where\’s the testosterone?\n\nFunny. My wife\’s been bugging me about the samething.
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