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milken community high school
Jews tackling football: Milken High takes the ball and runs with the full-contact version of the sport
Leslee Komaiko
October 17, 2017
30 under 30: The remarkable young people changing the L.A. Jewish community
Eitan Arom
January 26, 2017
Meet the Jewish founders of Tinder
Jared Sichel
August 27, 2014
Finding dates used to require approaches such as hiring matchmakers, signing up for dancing and cooking classes, attending synagogue, asking friends for help, or, for the least energetic, merely creating a cursory profile on sites such as JDate.
Making Jewish high school affordable
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2014
Los Angeles residents Dafna and Scott Taryle hoped to send their son Adam to a Jewish hight school when he graduated from Temple Beth Am’s Pressman Academy. But, Scott Taryle said, “We didn’t know for sure that we would be able to.”
A homeless heart for Sukkot
Jewish Journal
September 18, 2013
I want to tell you about a man I’ll call Jack. Jack was a man who slept under the 405 underpass that I cross on my walk to synagogue every Shabbat. For a long time, I didn’t really see him. He was tucked away in the bushes next to the on-ramp. But that’s not what kept me from seeing him.
Buy a sign, build a sukkah
Jewish Journal
September 4, 2013
Four Jewish institutions have teamed up to build a sukkah composed entirely of homeless signs. They are asking the public to purchase and donate the signs in time for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Students display their spirit of innovation
Jewish Journal
June 26, 2013
High school student projects have always been an important part of helping teens learn innovation skills, but it’s not every day that the results garner interest from a group devoted to space exploration and the U.S. Department of Defense.
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