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Michael Aushenker

Michael Aushenker

Irwin Goldenberg,

Irwin Goldenberg, Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles past president and an active community leader, died on March 20. He was 85.

Janet Williams

Janet Williams, a past president of City of Hope\’s auxiliary division, Gems of Hope, died on Feb. 9, 2003. She was 84.

Road to Wellness

At first, investment entrepreneur Judy Resnick did not realize that her daughter, Stacey Shiffman, was carrying a genetically transmitted disease.

Culture Shot

The Filipino owners of an Asian restaurant at work. A glimpse of Thai worshippers praying inside a Buddhist temple. A man perusing an\nArmenian bookstore.

A Man Without Fear

When Marvel Comics founding father Stan Lee created Daredevil in 1964, he tagged his blind superhero: \”Man Without Fear.\”

Janet’s Retro Planet

It could have been a scene aboard the deck of the Titanic — before that pesky iceberg hit.

P.S., Your MenschIs Dead — for Now

If Hollywood menschdom has a name, it might be Steve Guttenberg. For years, audiences have identified Guttenberg as a nice Jewish mensch in films such as \”Cocoon\” and \”Three Men and a Baby.\” But in his new film, \”P.S. Your Cat Is Dead,\” which opens Jan. 24, Guttenberg trades in his image — for 90 minutes, anyway — for a much darker persona.

Oh Brother! He’s Been A Big One

Marc Mostman recalls the first time he saw \”Star Wars.\” \”I remember waiting in line at the Avco at Westwood,\” said the 35-year-old attorney.

A Mitzvah

When teen titan Henry Laufer needed to raise the bar on his bar mitzvah, he turned his drive for skateboarding into a skateboarding drive.

A Growing Presence

It has taken roughly three decades for L.A.\’s community of Russian-speaking Jews to steadily, if incrementally, gain a foothold in Jewish American and mainstream American life.\n\n\”In the Russian Jewish community, you didn\’t have, until the early \’90s, any organization,\” said Miriam Prum Hess, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles\’ vice president for Planning and Allocations. \”Now that this community has made it as one of our wonderful success stories.\”\n\nOne sign that Los Angeles\’ immigrant-heavy Russian Jewish community has \”made it\” as a rising philanthropic force in the larger Jewish community is this month\’s Russian Dinner Gala, co-sponsored by The Federation and the American Russian Medical and Dental Association — headed by Dr. Ludmila Bess and Alex Gershman. The Jewish entities will join forces to host the first large-scale community-wide effort ever staged by this city\’s Russian-speaking Jewish community.

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