FAVORITE ARTICLES, REVIEWS, PROFILES

Finding Value in World War II posters - Feature article. Military Heritage October 2002.

Is It Time for an Outside Audit of SMMC? Santa Monica Daily Press, Op-ed June 14, 2003.

What Happened to the Community in Santa Monica Community College? - Santa Monica Daily Press Op-ed May 6, 2003

“The Score-boosting Game” California Educator, March 2001. Long letter to the editor detailing the problems with standardized testing without safeguards against cheating.

“Heads in the Sand,” LA Jewish Journal 12/7/2001. News article on former Navy Admiral who predicted terrorism in the United States by the Israel’s enemies.

“Visiting Vietnam: Tourists experience the remarkable culture and turbulent history of the quickly evolving nation,” LA Jewish Journal, 7/7/00. Plus two long sidebars. My reflections on a two-week trip to Saigon, Hanoi, and HaLong Bay.

“Panel, Interrupted: Peres Predicts ‘new age’ of peace during speech at USC,” LA Jewish Journal 5/12/00. Article on World Affairs Council panel and protests.

“Keeping Race Alive: Unease over Census 2000,” LA Jewish Journal, 4/7/00. Analysis detailing changes in racial/ethnic categories on Census forms over 200 years.

“Held Accountable: Web sites make voting records and campaign contributions an open secret” LA Jewish Journal, 3/3/00. Review of election and campaign websites.

“Hot Propositions: California’s controversial experiment in direct democracy continues,” LA Jewish Journal, 3/3/00. Summaries of 6 ballot propositions with pro/con arguments.

“What’s the Jewish Stake in LAUSD?,” LA Jewish Journal, 2/25/00. A critical review of the gigantic, problem-plagued Los Angeles Unified School District and reform proposals.

“Coastal Voters Could Pick New House Speaker,” LA Jewish Journal, 2/11/00. News.

“Addressing the Costs of Peace,” LA Jewish Journal, 1/28/00. Article on lobbying efforts planned to convince Congress to approve the billions needed for a Mideast peace treaty.

“Third Thoughts on a Museum of Tolerance Exhibit” Santa Monica Mirror. 1/5/00. Personal reflections on the intense debate over the fairness of a museum exhibit.

“Sewing Controversy At Museum of Tolerance” LA Jewish Journal, 12/3/99. This long feature examined an exhibit on sweatshops and lead to several letters to the editor.

“Marriage In California: Proposition 22,” LA Jewish Journal, 11/12/99. Feature comparing different attitudes toward marriage in Jewish religious and civil organizations.

“Build It and They Will Leave: Key Venice Battle Pits Affordable Housing vs. Lucrative Redevelopment Project,” LA Village View, 3/10/95.

“Clearing the Air: The Battle for KPFK’s Soul” LA Village View, 8/19/94. Report on the KPFK’s cancellation of two radio programs known for inflammatory racial slurs.

“CLAS Struggle: The CLAS Tests should have been modified, not axed,” LA Village View, 7/22/94. Editorial column on Gov. Wilson’s ending first statewide education tests.

“Sandstorm: Controversy Erupts Over New Restrictions on Venice Boardwalk,” LA Village View, 6/10/94.

“Building a New ‘Pro-Choice’ Movement: Children’s Rights Activist Laura Huxley Advocates ‘Conscious Parenting,” LA Village View, 4/22/94. Profile on Aldous’ widow.

“Half-Lifes and Half-Lies: Decoding the Corporate Ad Campaign to Push Through the Ward Valley Radioactive Waste Dump.” LA Village View, 2/25/94. An analysis rebutting the arguments of a brilliant, but misleading ad campaign on a complex issue.

“One on One: Single-Assassin Theorist Gerald Posner States His Case,” LA Village View, 11/19/93. Cover story. Interview with Pulitzer-Prize winning author on the 30th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Posner’s book, Case Closed, won many awards.

“It’s The Atomic Testing, Stupid: Clinton Does the Right Thing - But Barely,” LA Village View, 7/9/93. Editorial column on Clinton’s announcing a nuclear testing moratorium.

“Business As Usual: The Bottom Line on Richard Riordan,” LA Village View, 5/28-6/3/93. Profiling both Riordan the man and the history of business tycoon politicians.

“The Painted Man: The Kosinski Mystique Lives on in His Posthumous Essays” LA Village View, 5/7/93. Full-page book review of Passing By: Selected Essays.

“Tough Talk: Riordan and Woo Try to Make Crime Pay,” LA Village View, 5/7/93. First of a six part series of articles analyzing and following the 1993 mayoral race with a focus on complex urban dilemmas. Articles combined history, polls, and policy debates.

“Hail Caesar: Cesar Chavez Remembered,” LA Village View, 4/30/93. Obituary.

“Taking the Heat: Accused by Some of Racism, Tom Houston Continues to Preach Immigration Reform as the Solution to LA’s Woes.” LA Village View, 3/26/93.

“Historic Betrayals: New Works on Columbus and the Painful Legacy of Racial Hatred,” LA Village View, 1/1/93. Here’s how Columbus’ status fell from 1892 to 1992.

“Congressional Race: Belinson vs. McClintock,” LA Village View, 10/30/92.

“The Right Stuff: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Richard Ben Cramer Discusses What It Takes to Get to the White House,” LA Village View, 10/2/92. Profile and interview.

“Epic Pessimism: Author William Vollman Records the Infinite Varieties of Human Suffering in his Encyclopedic Novel, Fathers and Crows. LA Village View, 9/18-24/92.

“Wicked Infidel: Upton Sinclair’s EPIC Run for Governor of California”. LA Village View, 5/29-6/4/92. Long book review of 665-page tome called The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor and the Birth of Media Politics.

“Propaganda” LA Village View, 3/27-4/2/92. Long book review of Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion.

“Solarz Announces Beach Clean-up,” Greenpoint Gazette, 5/31/89. Typical of the over 150 press releases written for Congressman Stephen Solarz from 2/88-11/89 in NYC.

“Solarz Defends Housing Cooperatives From IRS Attack: Calls for New National Housing Policy,” City Limits 1/89. Entire press release published in housing magazine.

“What price peace, what price freedom? The debate over arms control and Soviet Jews” 11/13/86. Syndicated article for Jewish Student Press Syndicate that appeared in several publications nationwide.

“Museum of Once Jewish Greek Town Is Judenrein,” 3/86. A JSPS feature on Thessalonica Museum and a significant omission. Widely reprinted feature.

“Putting the Homeless to Work” City Limits, 11/85. A magazine feature examining a NYC policy requiring homeless shelter residents to work in parks.

“Inside the Brooklyn House of Detention,” The Phoenix, 5/14/85. Last of six long, investigative articles on Brooklyn’s collapsing criminal justice system. The series, written by 5 reporters, won awards from NY State Press Association and NY Bar Association.

“Spring Enters With New Hope for City’s Homeless,” The Phoenix, 4/16/85.

“One of Brooklyn’s Own Wins Academy Award,” The Phoenix, 4/4/85. Profile on F. Murray Abraham after he won the Best Actor Award for his role in Amadeus.

“Architectural Visions of Divinity: Inside and Outside Some of Brooklyn’s Many Churches,” The Phoenix, 3/14/85. Feature story on a popular tour of urban churches.

 

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