"Look at what you did. You just peed your pants! You lied to me!" One moment, he was happily building a sand castle, planting a flag made of seaweed and driftwood in the turret. He was just another kid. And then, in an instant, everything changed.He wasn't quite six. I knew that because the man - his father? stepfather? - shouted it loud enough for everyone to ...

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... by Elizabeth Walters Would you come back? This is the question that dogs me every morning as I drive through the streets of New Orleans. Past the rebuilt homes and ramshackle shells, past the fresh trim jobs and spray-painted search crosses, past the cleared concrete slabs and the piles of debris that still litter every block, I travel and interrogate my own strength. I had never visited this area before Hurricane Katrina devastated it three years ago, ...

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Centropa exhibit on Sephardic Balkan Jewry travels to UCLA Hillel If there was a Jewish Nobel Prize, I would give it to Edward Serotta for founding Centropa, which seeks to preserve and protect Jewish life in Eastern Europe.  That short description simply does not do justice to the rich mission of this organization.  It serves as a photo repository, oral history collection, recipe archive and educational resource center for everything to do with Jewish life behind ...

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