\”There really has not been a dramatic shakeup here in a long time,\” Tom Rose said, talking about plans to streamline the financially troubled newspaper. \”The issue is really grow or die — and we choose the former.\”
First let me place myself — at least in time and place. I grew up a Jew in post-depression, World War II America. Looking at the past, I find myself hardly fitting into what look to me like familiar categories.
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Thirty or so members of Generation X and I are taking a course at Brandeis University titled Politics and the Media.
During the past few months, I have had contact with a friendly pastor, who is sincerely concerned about the future of the Jewish people both here and in Israel.
The idea for our lead story on Jewish influence, \”East Coast vs. West Coast\” (see Tom Tugend\’s story), originated with our publisher, Stanley Hirsh.
There was a time when news of the high school massacre in Littleton, Colo., would have struck Israelis as incomprehensible, evidence of some strange, alien disease floating around America, to which Israel was certainly immune.
Not anymore.
Like most Serbian-Americans, Dusica Savic Benghiat charges the American media with bias and historical ignorance.
When Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs was received at the White House on Monday, together with other members of the Rev. Jesse Jackson\’s mission to Belgrade that successfully lobbied President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia for the release of three captive American soldiers, he passed on a message to President Clinton.
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