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Personals
Mom’s final resting places — a cremation story
Ellie Kahn, Oral Historian
August 7, 2008
If you are offended either by the idea of cremation or humor about the dead, you may want to stop reading. It\’s OK.
Only the best go there
Susan Freudenheim
March 11, 2008
There are moments when half a world away seems right around the corner. At Young Israel of Century City (YICC) on Sunday afternoon, Israel\’s pain at the murder of eight young yeshiva students burned through the Los Angeles Jewish community, just as it has in Jerusalem, where the boys lived, and as it has through Jewish communities throughout the world. The death of eight innocent boys studying Torah at Yeshiva Mercaz Harav shrunk the world.
The Dance of Life
Rabbi Carla Howard
February 14, 2008
I spoke to Fred several days before he died. He didn\’t want to be on hospice, didn\’t want to think about dying — or to let me visit him in the hospital — but he said he thought that he had danced his last dance. I was honored to have shared it with him — asher hu bam.
The moment it dawned on me that being Jewish is important
Esther D. Kustanowitz
December 7, 2007
During the opening session for the Professional Leaders Project (PLP), a conference for young Jewish leaders, a man delivered inspirations via PowerPoint, asking us to consider the one \”moment\” that inspired us to connect to Jewish projects and commit to the Jewish professional world.
Yes, I have Tay-Sachs Disease
Eric Pastor
November 30, 2007
First person account of living with Tay-Sachs disease.
Chanukah and adult faith
Danya Ruttenberg
November 30, 2007
A lot of people have trouble with Chanukah. I did, for years. I\’d go to parties and nibble on my latke or sufganiyot while grumbling under my breath about how there was nothing here to celebrate. I\’d light my Chanukiyah, but I\’d only do the bare minimum needed to fulfill the mitzvah and I\’d do my best not to enjoy it. My problem then, and the problem of the people who this year have already informed me that they\’re all but going to boycott the holiday, is that the history of this particular celebration is, well … complicated.
Life on the picket lines — a striking writer reports
Ellen Sandler
November 16, 2007
When I was asked by The Jewish Journal whether I\’d like to write something funny about the WGA strike, I thought — hey, there\’s nothing funny about this: corporate bullies refusing to pay writers for their work. This is serious. But as my friend Rob Lotterstein, creator and executive producer of Fox\’s \”The War at Home\” says, \”Just because we\’re not writing doesn\’t mean we\’ve lost our sense of humor.\”
From the San Diego fires — a burning question
Jessica Levine Kupferberg
November 2, 2007
What would you do if you had 10 minutes to get out of your home, not knowing whether it will still be there tomorrow? What would you take? What would you leave? What is truly indispensable? These are the questions that too many of my fellow San Diegans have faced in the last few days as fires ravage homes all over San Diego County. Members of our shul, families from our day school, my husband\’s colleagues — many have been displaced, forced to grab their loved ones, pets and the few things they can\’t bear to live without.
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