BUSINESS
August 7, 2005 | E. Scott Reckard, Times Staff Writer
Those who know Roland E. Arnall describe him as a down-to-earth billionaire, one who is as comfortable pitching in at an animal shelter as he is commanding his business empire. A Jewish refugee who survived the Holocaust as a child in France, Arnall co-founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center and is one of the nation's top political contributors. The holiday bash last year at his 10-acre estate near the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles was attended by Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
MAGAZINE
July 15, 1990 | SHELDON TEITELBAUM and TOM WALDMAN, Sheldon Teitelbaum, a frequent contributor to The Times, is an L.A. correspondent for Cinefantastique. Tom Waldman regularly covers Los Angeles politics for California Journal and other publications.
LAST YEAR, WHEN the Berlin Wall fell and the word reunification was murmured in the halls of power, the American Jewish community held its breath. Nobody had to be reminded of what happened to European Jewry the last time Germany was one. Reluctant to risk sparking world ire by opposing reunification while television transmitted dramatic pictures of the decimated Berlin Wall, most American Jews were content to let the British, French, Poles and Soviets express concern on their own behalf.