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Beverly Gray

Beverly Gray

Marlene Marks’ Spirit on the Web

Jana Rosenblatt\’s founding partners in Five Chicks Unlimited are four local businesswomen who have been touched by cancer. They bring expertise in finance, product research, Web design and customer service to the site.

60th Anniversary Reunites Orphans

Miriam Dybnis, vivacious at 83, insists she and her husband never expected to be honored for their deeds. Still, she\’s deeply gratified that so many of the young orphans have thrived as adults.

Blacks, Jews Unite for ‘Sheba’

In 1939, as a child of 3, Sonia Levitin fled Hitler\’s Germany with her family. The first friend she made in the United States was a small African American girl. Nearly 50 years later, as a well-established writer of young adult fiction, Levitin won the National Jewish Book Award for \”The Return\” (Atheneum, 1987). This historical novel focuses on the plight of Ethiopian Jews, who consider themselves descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In tracing their perilous journey from Africa to Israel via Operation Moses in 1984, Levitin combined her long-standing interest in African culture with her own childhood memories of leaving her homeland behind.

Woman of the Book

Sherrill Kushner\’s crusade on behalf of the Santa Monica Public Library system began with her realization that Jews are the People of the Book.

In the Biblical Sense

Experts agree that Jewish schools — and schools in general — need to do more to teach kids about their bodies and about the whole complex subject of human reproduction.

Being Greene

Brian Greene thinks of himself as a product of the University of Judaism (UJ).

Teaching the Kids

There\’s a 7-year-old girl who attends second grade at a local Jewish day school. She\’s intelligent, but in a classroom setting, she finds it hard to focus: if a fire engine roars down the street, there goes the lesson.

Doctor of the Barrio

When Julie Korenstein speaks out on environmental matters, she credits her mother, Dr. Pauline Furth, with shaping her own crusading spirit. Korenstein, who represents District 6 on the Los Angeles Unified School District\’s school board, said that throughout her life her mother has been \”the most important influence on me personally.\”

Strike Up the Klezmer

This is not your grandmother\’s halftime show. Unless of course, Grandma grew up in a kibbutz or shtetl with a 145-piece marching band in residence.

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