Public money for Jewish schools: Free not-quite-but-sort-of Jewish education
August 28, 2008
Are Hebrew-language charter schools the answer to the tuition crisis, or a threat to both Jewish education and American values?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Parents cash in on kids’ Birthright
July 18, 2008
Jenny Meyer was feeling guilty, and she was willing to use that guilt to get what she wanted — a free trip to Israel for her parents
Extending the Birthright privilege
July 17, 2008
Birthright\’s success in awakening a connection to Jewish heritage and Israel is unprecedented in American Jewish life. The number of alumni continues to multiply and their enthusiasm is infusing new energy into American Jewry
Same-sex marriage and the fabric of society: What does it all mean?
June 18, 2008
For some, it is a spiritual moment of human dignity finally resting upon everyone. For others, it is a sign that society is being sucked into an eddy of moral dissolution.
Shoah survivors ‘graduate’ from New Jew
June 5, 2008
New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) awarded eight Holocaust survivors honorary high school diplomas last Wednesday night, symbolically handing them back a part of their adolescence that had been stolen by the war
Valley ‘Walk for Darfur’ raises $35,000
June 5, 2008
More than 1,400 people marched up Vanowen Street and across Victory Boulevard in West Hills last Sunday to raise funds and awareness about the genocide in Darfur. The second annual three-mile Walk for Darfur raised more than $35,000 for Jewish World Watch\’s work in refugee support, political advocacy and education.
New generation has a new take on Israel
May 15, 2008
Earlier this spring, David Weiner, a 32-year-old social studies curriculum publisher from Los Angeles, went on an unlikely pairing of back-to-back missions to Israel.
New group for school and shul rabbis addresses shared issues
April 18, 2008
A new group of Orthodox day school principals and pulpit rabbis on Los Angeles\’ Westside began meeting a few months ago to work through issues that overlap the classroom and the synagogue.
Loving your veggies can lighten the seder
April 11, 2008
Faye Levy doesn\’t look like anyone who\’s ever had a problem with her weight. The prolific cookbook author stands at 4-foot-10, and weighs about 100 pounds.
But somewhere in the mid-1980s, just as she was working on \”Chocolate Sensations\” and \”Dessert Sensations,\” she realized that testing those recipes, on top of six years at cooking school in Paris — and following every enticing smell into street markets and cafes — had added a lot of weight to her tiny frame.
Historic Jewish merry-go-rounds up for sale
March 28, 2008
The Illions Supreme Carousel, which twirled riders for decades at the L.A. County Fairgrounds in Pomona, is one of the most elaborate wooden carousels carved at the beginning of the last century by Marcus Charles Illions and his group of Jewish immigrant craftsmen. If the current owner, a private collector, can\’t find a buyer for the carousel — a city, museum or amusement park — the historic specimen of Jewish Americana could end up broken apart or shipped to Dubai, where the amusement park industry is flourishing and the weak dollar makes American cast-offs a bargain.
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