Unpacked for Educators New Research Program Includes Three LA Schools
Erin Ben-Moche
September 6, 2019
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jewish
LimmudLA honors founders
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 12, 2012
LimmudLA honored its founders, Linda Fife and Shep Rosenman, in an evening of dinner, music and study on Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens. LimmudLA is the local outlet of an international model of interdisciplinary, interdenominational, no-boundaries Jewish conferences and events. Founded in the United Kingdom more than 30 years ago, Limmud now conducts 60 conferences in 30 countries, all of them almost entirely run by volunteers.
Halacha is just a click away at online yeshiva
Amy Klein
May 4, 2008
Like other virtual learning and videoconferencing, Web Yeshiva students see and hear each other and the instructor in the virtual classroom.
Islam in the Hood
David Suissa
January 25, 2007
Is Islam a religion of war or of peace? Is it both? How did it start? What are its connections to Judaism?
Composer Martin Bresnick’s classically unique style turns 60
George Robinson
January 18, 2007
Even today, Bresnick \”listens to everything,\” and his own compositions have a uniquely American eclecticism.
Jewish and Muslim students at USC share dorm and friendships
Nick Street
December 21, 2006
At a time when Jews and Muslims in other parts of the world aren\’t having much luck learning from one another, the conversation and the setting for it are both quietly revolutionary. Here Jewish and Muslim students live together in harmony.
B’nai Brith’s new chief visits L.A.; ‘Messenger’ unites local readers
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2006
Briefs
A night at the homeless shelter
Jackie Greenspan
November 30, 2006
545 San Pedro Street is an address I will never forget.
It is the Union Rescue Mission downtown, inhabited by homeless individuals that reside in their designated corners on Skid Row. My school, Milken Community High School, offered a community service experience for 21 students, and I found myself at the Union Rescue Mission.
The great (non) depression
Rabbi Anne Brener
November 30, 2006
Depression is a word that has been cheapened. We forget that it is a diagnosis for a bona fide disease. It becomes a catch phrase for the weighty feelings we experience as we come to terms with life\’s challenges and honor the process of change.
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