This year, traditional Christmas Day volunteering is being spread out across December. The shul\’s ATID young adult leadership group\’s annual Dec. 25 Mitzvah Day is being merged with templewide volunteering on Dec. 18, the formal start of Sinai\’s yearlong centennial anniversary.
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\”Everybody loves this guy,\” said Cantor Nathan Lam of Bel Air\’s Reform synagogue, Stephen S. Wise Temple, and dean of the Jewish academy\’s cantorial school. \”He\’s a special human being. He makes a room feel good. If you\’re sick, he\’s the guy you want to come and cheer you up.\”
Leo Baeck Temple in Bel Air hosted an unusual commemoration of Kristallnacht, the event that is often considered the beginning of the Holocaust. Instead of focusing on mourning, the gathering last weekend was marked by raucous joy and a sense of reunification.
The central symbolism was provided by guest of honor Olga Grilli, who fled Nazi-occupied Europe as an 11-year-old. On Saturday, she saw once more and touched the Torah scroll from the shul of her Czechoslovakian hometown. She had last attended this temple as a child.
When Arden Realty Chairman and CEO Richard Ziman\’s elderly father was beginning to fade about 10 years ago, the father made a simple request. \”\’If I begin to lose it, take me there,\’\” said the father, as recounted by his son. \”\’I will never be in better hands and with better people who will take better care of me.\’\” Since 1912, those better hands have been at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging.
Comic actor Larry Miller explained to a Journal reporter his new role on ABC\’s eye-winking drama, \”Desperate Housewives.\”
In 1927, a popular duo called The Happiness Boys had a hit song called, \”Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me,\” which lampooned the car magnet\’s supposed contrition for the anti-Semitic content of his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about forgiveness at Yom Kippur services in Beverly Hills, closing out what became a safe and reflective High Holidays for the Southern California Jewish community.
Conservative filmmakers will invade West Hollywood this weekend for the second annual, Bush-loving Liberty Film Festival, with WeHo\’s Pacific Design Center becoming a haven to some Jewish entertainment names who vote red while living among the blue.
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