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...sexual politics and issues of oppression and freedom. After the 1970 death of her husband, Rich vocalized herself as an outspoken lesbian feminist, seeking to include the lesbian experience into woman's' scholarship. She remains today a figurehead for gay and lesbian rights, reproductive freedom and for the progressive Jewish movement...
...County's unexpectedly robust Buchanan vote was the earliest hint of madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...
...insult to injury, this year's winter break is badly placed. Vacation lasts from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1. Jewish students will get home in time for Hanukkah, which is a good thing. Students who celebrate Kwanzaa, however, will have to leave home on the last day of the holiday. (Okay, so few people actually celebrate all seven days, but still.) The real problem with the current vacation dates are that they make travel back to school on New Year's Day. Do you know what this means? Incredibly painful hangovers and a day of travel fraught with errors. Here...
...heavy scents of bougainvillaea and manure mingle in the hot afternoon air at Shikmim Farm. Ariel Sharon pulls down the brim of his black Australian bush hat--a Jewish Crocodile Dundee. On his thick fingers, he is counting off the names his political enemies hurl at him: "Hard-liner. Extremist. Rightist. War criminal." His 1,500 acres on the edge of the Negev Desert is one of the few private farms in Israel and a refuge from the controversy that has followed him through 55 years in the military and in politics. Sharon, 72, the leader of Israel's right...
Roberts knows rough-and-tumble politics well, fighting for a district made up mostly of elderly and Jewish voters, residents of the Century Village retirement community. A die-hard Dem, she has served 14 years on the Republican-dominated county commission. She has withstood criticism before, like the time she cast a vote to break a tie, allowing a zoning change that favored her dentist son. She first chose to run for public office as a young mother after reading that an incumbent city commissioner had no opponent. Kids in tow, she went down and filed to run against...