A landmark effort to save forgotten sites 

A landmark effort to save forgotten sites 
An attorney’s saving of a Jewish site in Boyle Heights may lead to a survey aimed at preventing inadvertent destruction of city’s past. The Vladeck Center, where Los Angeles’ Jewish community once gathered to form labor unions and teach Yiddish, sits in a transformed neighborhood with Mexican restaurants and murals of mariachi musicians and Spanish conquistadors.

Ten Commandments to be displayed at Bloomfield City Hall (11:39 a.m.) 
BLOOMFIELD, N.M. A granite monument displaying the Ten Commandments will be placed outside Bloomfield’s City Hall. City councilors, who unanimously approved the monument in a special meeting Tuesday, cited it as a historical and artistic display.

Seder offers lessons for the whole world 
Let us begin the story at one of its many possible endings, several thousand years after the original event, and then go back to the beginning. I am standing at an altar at 7 in the morning. A tiny bit of sun is peeking though a window opposite me.

Theft at cemetery alleged 
The former manager of Rochester’s two municipal cemeteries is accused of involvement in the theft of more than $43,000 in fraudulent commissions on cemetery plots and monuments and pocketed almost $1,000 worth of city-owned bronze and brass sold as scrap metal, authorities allege in court documents.

Gilberto Gil seeks simplicity 
Editor’s note: Gilberto Gil performs tonight at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford. Tickets are $86-$36, available online at www.zeiterion.org, or by calling (508) 994-2900.

Looking back 
1997 (10 years ago) n “More than 9,000 people from all over Western Virginia and North Carolina worked themselves into a frenzied roar” during Turner Network Television’s “Monday Nitro” wrestling show at the Roanoke Civic Center.