Articles

Bernard Axelrad was a columnist, a member of Al Jolson Los Angeles Lodge and a past president by affiliation. He was an attorney, CPA, consultant, arbitrator, and collector of Israeli art and sculptures. Axelrad expressed his own opinion in these pages, not those of the paper, as he looked around at life.

1. 1982

2. April The Disappearing Jewish Sports Hero
3. June An 'All-Star' Jewish Baseball Team
4. June Jewish Basketball Players
5. August Such Chutzpah
6. September The Tower of Babel and the Economists
7. October Yom Kippur Reverie
8. November Computer vs. Random Choice Theory of Marriage Partners
9. December Moats For Sale

10. 1983

11. January Hanukkah Reunion
12. February Silence Is Not Golden
13. March The Sins of the Parents
14. April Never on Saturday
15. May It Was B'Shert
16. September A Most Unusual Man
17. October The Loss and The Gain
18. November Class Reunion — Prologue
19. December Class Reunion — Epilogue

20. 1984

21. January Faust Revised
22. February Reflections of an Ex-Smoker
23. March Not Me, Mrs. Ornstein
24. April It's a Mad MAD World
25. June The Rigors and Joys of Retirement (Part One — The Rigors)
26. July The Rigors and Joys of Retirement (Part Two — The Joys)
27. September Olympics Commentary
28. October Welfare Blues
29. November Personal Reflections
30. December Post-Election Mutterings

31. 1985

32. January My Mother, the Giver
33. February Goring the Ox
34. March The Most Precious Gift
35. April Our Violent Society
36. May Some Bargaining Chip!
37. June Bitburg: Personal Reaction
38. September In Memoriam
39. October In Memoriam - II
40. November In Memoriam - Conclusion
41. December Hanukkah Thanks/giving

42. 1986

43. January A Time of Drift and Stalemate
44. February Sibling Competition
45. March The Paradox
46. April From Apathy To Revolution
47. May The Mourner's Kaddish
48. June Rabbi Abram Maron, Retired
49. July Rabbi Abram Maron — A Personal View
50. August Rabbi Abram Maron - A Tribute
51. September Going 'Home'
52. October Freedom of Choice
53. November A Crack in the Ice
54. December A Political Lynching

55. 1987

56. January Fall From Grace
57. February Second Chance
58. March The Fine Line - Part I
59. April The Fine Line - Part II
60. May No Answers
61. August The Unaddressed Issue
62. September Travel: With Joy and Naches
63. October The Differences Among Us
64. November A Crap Shoot by Another Name

65. 1988

66. January Depression Legacy
67. February Day of Infamy
68. March The Hot Potato in Context
69. April The Hot Potato: A Sequel
70. May The Agony and The Ecstasy
71. September Thank You, Linda
72. October From Generation to Generation
73. November Anatomy of An Addiction
74. December My Mother, My Friend

75. 1989

76. January Modern Day Alchemy
77. February 'Letting Go'
78. October Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

79. 1993

80. September Travel Vignette (1)
81. November Travel Vignette (2)

82. 1994

83. February Travel Vignette (3)

84. 1996

85. February In Search of a Shul in Rangoon

86. 1997

87. March The Shivyon Minyan

88. 1998

89. April My Most Memorable Seder in 74 Years

90. 1999

91. May Two Weddings

92. 2000

93. September Shuling Around

94. 2001

95. March Never Again
96. September Traveling Down Under
97. October Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die

98. 2002

99. September Endemic Anti-Semitism