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Rebuilding lives, one broken tile at a time

It was an elegant opening for a gallery exhibition. It was difficult to discern, on the surface, that the artists represented some of Los Angeles\’ most impoverished citizens, residents of Skid Row and South Los Angeles, who are actually using the broken bits of tile, stone and other rejected and recycled materials to rebuild their own lives.

Compassion + patience + art = hope for a teen father

Two weeks ago, John turned 18. Two weeks before that he was arrested for threatening to beat up a boy in his group home. And it has only been six weeks since his 19-year-old girlfriend gave birth to his baby. The arrest warrant is the most immediate problem. But looming greater is the day, coming soon, when he ages out of the foster care system and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) will terminate his case.

Younger Persians seeking greater role in community

Over the past decades, nearly two dozen local Iranian Jewish groups have been involved with political awareness efforts, but no group until now has seriously pursued or organized communitywide political and civic activism.

Food prices squeeze Israel’s needy

As the price of food staples have risen, Israel\’s poor and the nonprofit groups that serve them have been hardest hit, with some impoverished Israelis skipping meals to pay their monthly bills

The Hadassah convention – VideoJew style

The 94th annual Hadassah convention recently traveled to Los Angeles and JewishJournal.com VideoJew Jay Firestone was all over it, like jelly on gefilte fish.

Q&A with showbiz power broker Irv Weintraub: Why doesn’t Hollywood give Jewish?

\” . . . We have one thing that\’s not happening now that happened then, which was the memory of the Holocaust. We are 50-plus years removed. The urgency that existed then doesn\’t exist today. The Federation campaign did better with Lou Wasserman — people didn\’t tell him no. There isn\’t that iconic person like Lou who is willing to be identified publicly with their Judaism . . .\”

Donors push Bar-Ilan to head of the class

\”I wish I had 10 percent of the success with the Israeli government as I have with private donors,\” sighed Moshe Kaveh, the president of Bar-Ilan University.

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