Dave Bullock is a co-founder of the Skid Row Photography Club, which provides digital cameras to Los Angeles’ Skid Row residents — the club’s members — and through their pictures allows outsiders like himself a chance to see their lives in another light.
When Ellen Brooks retired in 1977 at the age of 34 from her job as a production assistant on the Warner Bros. lot, she was looking forward to spending some time traveling the country with her new husband, Dr. Philip Brooks, a gynecologist approaching his 50th anniversary at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The beginning of Shmot includes a listing of Jacob’s sons and a description that the“Israelites were fertile and prolific; they multiplied and increased very greatly, so that the land was filled with them.”
Stephen Hawking is much in the news these days.
Last night Cameron Diaz married Benji Madden, the guitarist for the popular punk rock band Good Charlotte, at her Beverly Hills home.
Harvey Pollack, an iconic figure in the NBA, was seriously injured in a car accident.
Bess Myerson, the only Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America, has died.
His voice cracking with emotion, his eyes welling with tears, Joseph Samuels, 84 and a retired Jewish real estate developer, recalled the pogrom’s angry Muslim mobs in Baghdad that his Iraqi family and the Jewish community there faced during the Holocaust.
For most people, working full-time plus overtime hours as vice president of finance at a property management firm would be enough to stay busy.
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