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Gaby Wenig

Gaby Wenig

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The paparazzi lined the halls of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on March 31 hoping for a glimpse of some of the A-List guests arriving to watch producer and Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth receive the Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Human Relations Award at the American Jewish Committee\’s (AJC) annual dinner.

These Soldiers We Remember

Yigal Shaked warned his mother that if she told the enlisting officers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that he should be excused from service because of his asthma, he would never speak to her again.

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Groups Celebrate Seders With a Cause

At Jewish Family Service\’s Freedom Seder, participants read from a haggadah that was just a little bit different. Instead of reading of the four sons, those at the Freedom Seder read about the \”four community members.\”

\”The wise community member asks, \’How can we, as individuals, and a community, address domestic violence?\’\”

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Catharsis Found in Haggadah Artwork

While Israeli artist Avner Moriah was creating \”Haggadat Moriah\” (Moriah Haggadah), his wife, Andy, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.

\”I sat next to her when the chemicals were dripping in,\” said the 50-year-old artist, in Los Angeles this week for an exhibit opening of his work at the University of Judaism. \”In Israel everyone davens and says \’Tehillim\’ when someone is sick, but I came up with images for the haggadah. When I started, the images were really small but as she got healthier, they became more colorful and more lively. When I finished [and Andy recovered] I realized that I had painted my own journey from Egypt.\”

Chabad Brings Brooklyn to L.A.

Amid the kosher restaraunts, Judaica stores and storefront synagogues on a particular stretch of Pico Boulevard, a little piece of Brooklyn has just been built.

OK, the new three-story, 47,000-square-foot brown-brick building is hardly little, but it is straight out of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Crown Heights address that houses the central Chabad center and the headquarters of their former spiritual leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, otherwise known as \”the Rebbe.\”

Delice Solves Holiday Baking Challenge

When Julien Bohbot and Jacob Levy opened Delice Bakery on Pico Boulevard two years ago, they had one goal in mind: introducing the kosher community in Los Angeles to authentic French-baked goods that adhered to the highest standard of kashrut without sacrificing taste or quality. So during the year, that meant that Bohbot and Levy were paying three or four times as much as other bakeries for ingredients so that they could use cholov yisroel (milk that has been supervised), butter and cream to make Delice\’s flaky croissants. But at Passover time, the two men faced a greater challenge to make Passover cakes that tasted as good as year-round cakes and make the cakes affordable — or almost affordable — despite the high cost of kosher-for-Passover ingredients.

Pullman Stars on the Drive Home

\”I am very proud of my Jewish heritage,\” Jason Pullman said, talking to The Journal from the Clear Channel offices (Star\’s parent company). \”I used to use stage names, but then as of four or five years ago [I decided] I am myself, and that is only person that I want to be.\”

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