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pain
Girl Doesn’t Let Pain Stand in Way of Her Bat Mitzvah
Jewish Journal
March 18, 2009
Preparing for a bar or bat mitzvah is time consuming. A student in the throes of becoming a teenager has to learn Torah and haftarah portions, plus required prayers and blessings. Then there’s the speech, the mitzvah project and the weekly meetings with the cantor or rabbi, or both.\n
Pain and Pleasure and Guilt, Oh My!
Rob Eshman
August 31, 2006
100 or so young Jews gathered to celebrate the third issue of Guilt and Pleasure, a literary quarterly out of New York whose first issue featured a cover photograph of a border collie smoking a cigarette.
Fit L.A. – Let’s Take a ‘J-Walk’ Around the Block
Norma Zager
January 19, 2006
After schlepping 40 years in the desert, it\’s hard to imagine a CD to exercise by coming from a people who have harbored a subconscious distrust of walking. But with my daughter\’s upcoming nuptials, my unending kvetch about fitting into the dress won out over my skepticism.
Artist Depicts Pain of Genetic Ailment
Tom Tugend
December 1, 2005
When he was 6 years old, Los Angeles artist Ted Meyer had two life-changing experiences. He won his first art show prize after copying a flamingo drawn by an older friend. Secondly, he was diagnosed as suffering from Gaucher Disease after intensive bouts of pain in his knees and hip bones.
He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Dated
Amy Klein
November 24, 2005
I met Dan a few weeks ago at an awesome party downtown. It was held on the entire floor of an industrial building on Spring Street, where a dozen or so artists were showing their work — mostly photographs and paintings but with a couple of jewelry and clothing designers interspersed. The lighting and the ceilings were low in a way that made everyone look more scintillating than they might in a retro basement bar in Santa Monica. Of course, it could have been the flutes of wine or the chocolate truffles. Or could it really have been Dan?
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