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The nerve-wracking morning of a bar or bat mitzvah will eventually be all that\’s left standing between a student and his or her catered night of extravagant partying. The b\’nai mitzvah coach already has helped detangle the Hebrew and trope, but the pressure of reading the Torah portion and haftarah, as well as delivering a speech in front of hundreds of family members, friends and congregants, might make even a usually unassuming bimah look terrifying.

Giffords speaks for first time since shooting

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords spoke for the first time since she was shot. C.J. Karamargin, a spokesman for Giffords (D-Ariz.), told CNN on Wednesday that she had asked for toast.

Clinton, Bush to Appear Together During 2010 AJU Lecture Series

Two former presidents will share the stage when American Jewish University’s (AJU) Public Lecture Series returns in early 2010. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are scheduled to appear together at Universal’s Gibson Amphitheatre on Feb. 22, the university announced Monday.

Safire Says Book of Job Political

Dean\’s confusion about the location of the Book of Job generated a fair amount of ridicule at the time from commentators — but not from William Safire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, who is speaking next week about Job at Sinai Temple.

Berman ‘Rocks’ Boston

At French Connection on Boston\’s fashionable Newberry Street this past Tuesday evening, L.A. native Lindsey Berman is juggling. A song by the band Journey blares out of her satchel shaped like a guitar each time her cell phone rings. People are calling — friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends. Everyone wants a ticket to the Black Eyed Peas concert that evening, the hot after-party sponsored by the organization Rock the Vote at the Democratic National Convention. Inside French Connection, vendors are hawking their black T-shirts that read, \”FCUK you! I\’m voting,\” referring to the brand French Connection United Kingdom. Art Alexakis, the lead singer of the pop band Everclear, is singing. Berman is making sure everything goes smoothly, firing up the volunteers on the street, and figuring out how she\’ll get credentials for young people so they can get on the floor for the convention\’s speeches that evening.

The Gospel Truth

Just before midnight on Monday the phone rang at our house. It was a guest booker from ABC\’s \”Good Morning America,\” asking if I would speak that morning to Diane Sawyer, live on air, about Mel Gibson\’s \”The Passion of the Christ.\”

100 Lessons

While studying for rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University in the late \’70s, I was at the main study hall dedication where the late Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik spoke, honoring the great philanthropist, Joseph Gruss, who underwrote the project.

God’s Conversations With Allah

Documentary filmmaker Ruth Broyde-Sharone\’s latest work, \”God and Allah Need To Talk,\” will make its Los Angeles debut Sunday, Sept. 14, with the 18-minute film being central to a three-hour interfaith celebration highlighting common bonds between Muslims, Christians and Jews.

Cantor Steven Puzarne of Breeyah.

Carole Levine had been a member of Temple Israel of Hollywood for 28 years. During that time, she attended temple only during the High Holidays. Recently, Levine has started going to temple more often. As a flautist for The Chai Tones, a 10-piece temple band, Levine finds herself at the temple now at least once a month, playing jazzed-up versions of the regular synagogue melodies.

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