Rabbis’s Wives
June 21, 2001
Marlynn Dorff is typical of local rabbis\’ wives who have made their names in the field of Jewish education.
Beverly Gray
Not Just Summer Scholars
May 24, 2001
Many youngsters begin taking Judaism seriously as a result of their summer-camp experiences.
Survivors’ Stories
April 19, 2001
Many Holocaust survivors have turned to self-publication as a way of confronting their past lives.
Free Hebrew School
April 12, 2001
People insist that there\’s no such thing as a free lunch. But HaShalom, a small Sephardic Orthodox congregation in the Pico-Robertson area, is offering local public school children exactly that. When students in grades K-8 arrive at HaShalom at the end of their secular school day, they enjoy a hot meal, courtesy of Haifa Restaurant. And along with the food, they receive, absolutely free, classes in Hebrew and Jewish tradition.
Vital Learning
March 29, 2001
Yesod is UJ\’s brave new attempt to provide adults throughout the community with in-depth Jewish learning experiences.
Nurturing Yesod
March 29, 2001
As a boy in Tel Aviv, Gady Levy &\’9;lived in a purely secular household. He rode his bike on Yom Kippur and had absolutely no interest in Jewish tradition.
My Best Teacher
March 22, 2001
There will be one empty seat at our seder table this year. Blanche Wadleigh Bettington, who has helped us celebrate the Jewish people\’s liberation from Egypt since my college-age daughter was a baby, passed away on March 1.
Love forLearning
March 22, 2001
The opera world has its Three Tenors. The University of Judaism (UJ) kicked off its day-long Festival of Jewish Learning with three stellar rabbis.
Educator Q &A: Dr. Stu Bernstein
March 15, 2001
Dr. Stu Bernstein has spent 40 years with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as an elementary school teacher, principal and cluster administrator for Westside schools. On the occasion of his retirement, he was recently feted by the Association of Jewish Educators, with proceeds going toward the Multicultural Scholarship fund he helped establish. The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), formerly the National Conference of Christians and Jews, will give Bernstein its Humanitarian Award at an April 26 dinner.
Forging Ahead
March 8, 2001
For the past 37 summers, the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles (BJE) has sent high school students to Israel through its pioneering L.A. Ulpan program.
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