More than a year after his death, the late comedy writer Mickey Ross has proved a mega Jewish philanthropist. Last week, it was announced that the writer/producer of the hit sitcoms “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons” and “Three’s Company” had bequeathed $10 million to The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, one in a series of gifts he earmarked for the Jewish community.
Elliott Broidy, a leading investor in the Israeli economy and major donor and activist in the Los Angeles Jewish community, pleaded guilty Thursday to the felony charge of rewarding official misconduct.
Some 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries came home to their Crown Heights base for the annual \”kinus\” earlier this month — a conference that includes a week of professional development culminating with a grand banquet Nov. 15 at the Brooklyn Armory.
More than 20 Jewish charities were featured on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 400, despite some serious drops in fund raising.
Our major institutions are struggling to adjust, react, prepare but most of all to respond to those most harmed
I\’ve never been more concerned about the victims of domestic violence than I am right now. Families already buckling under the weight of domestic violence in the best of times can collapse in times of economic downturn and war.
\” . . . This camp, this organization [Hollywood Heart] gives me true happiness.I get back so much more in ways that are impossible to quantify, in ways I couldn\’tget from anything material or anything else I\’ve ever done . . . \”
This is not the time to extinguish the many institutions that have risen up to create a civil society. The arts nourish the soul, schools nurture the potential of our youth and promote the scientific and creative research that will secure our future.
\” . . . Women tend to want to spread the wealth a little more, and a lot of that has to do with how men and women are socializedin terms of their upbringing . . . \”
If there\’s one thing Gabe Goldman wishes more Angelenos would do next spring, it\’s get their hands dirty.
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