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Unfortunately, we can also see the reflection in today's post-Holocaust society. In his speech on April 6, National Anti Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman cited growing Anti-Semitism in this country and abroad. Particularly disturbing was a 1991 poll that found 31 percent of Americans thought American Jews "too powerful, too successful or too influential...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A Seder's Modern Lessons | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...Yolanda Saldivar, 32, who once headed Selena's fan club and later ran a boutique owned by the singer. Saldivar was arrested after a nine-hour standoff with police in the parking lot of the Days Inn. The only explanation offered for the killing came from Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, who suggested that Selena's meeting with Saldivar at the Days Inn was about financial irregularities. "My daughter Selena was killed this morning by a disgruntled employee," said Quintanilla. "There were discrepancies with the fan club, and they resulted in the shooting of Selena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH OF A RISING STAR: Selena | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...course, as Abraham Lincoln once said, you can't please all of the people all of the time...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Back on BROADWAY | 4/8/1995 | See Source »

...renaissance of conspiracy theories is a euphemism for the renaissance of anti-Semitism today," Abraham H. Foxman told an audience of about 80 at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel last night...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Foxman Decries Anti-Semitism | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

...19th century, photography gave us historic images -- pictures of Abraham Lincoln -- and naughty photographs, sold under the counter. You can be sure that the first obscene telephone call was placed not long after the Bell Telephone Co. connected the first network. As for the first phone sex? That was probably the first obscene phone call in which the recipient didn't hang up. When The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915, the erotic film A Free Ride was circulating through the men's smoker circuit. The explosion of VCRs coincided with the release of videotaped versions of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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