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Passing the Torch
\”We are dwindling,\” says the 1939 Club\’s Fred Diament.\n\n\”We are afraid of what will happen when we are no longer around tokeep the memory alive,\” says the Lodzer Organization of California\’sKal Berson.\n\nThe aging Holocaust survivors are speaking not only of fellowsurvivors but also of their respective clubs, which were formed inthe 1950s by émigrés who had lost everything to Hitler.
21 Years Ago: Jewish Leaders Condemn Tribute to Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl\’s long career ranges from silent-screen actress to recent underwater photographer, but her name is invariably linked to her 1934 film, \”Triumph of the Will.\” Shot at a Nuremberg party rally, it is considered one of the world\’s most notorious propaganda documentaries, in which she used brilliant cinematic techniques to glorify Hitler and the Aryan ideal.
A Bridge Over Troubled Water
As Israel nears its 50th birthday, events have shifted attentionaway from the stalled peace talks. What dominates the headlines nowis the warlike rhetoric among Jewish factions — both within Israeland in the Diaspora — as they clash over the issue of religiouspluralism.
21 Years Ago: L.A.’s Own Zionist Conference
To many American Jews in their 20s, 30s and 40s, Zionism, the ancient dream of a Jewish homeland that spawned a political movement and the birth of Israel almost 50 years ago, is little more than a footnote in a Sunday-school textbook.
What’s Wrong With
First, please understand that it has nothing to dowith health. The laws of kashrut — the food restrictions imposedupon Jews by the Bible and the Talmud — were not intended to keep ushealthy.
All the Tenacity
For Robert Anthony Siegel,April is indeed the cruelest month.Siegel\’s first novel came out in April — that was kind. But so did novels by Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. That was very,very cruel.\n\nAs book reviewers wrote fevered mini-tomes, dissecting the latest works by the greats, and publishing-house publicity budgets emptied to push Saints Norm, Saul and Phil, Siegel\’s exceptionally funny and entertaining novel, \”All the Money In the World,\” received zero attention.
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