Celebrating Length of Days
April 4, 2002
The truth was that the Los Angeles Jewish community was not ready to support a spiritual service for the dying.
Charlotte Hildebrand
Ask What You Can Do
March 14, 2002
Claudia Sobral, mother of three, woke up the other morning after watching a night of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians on the BBC news, and wrote a spontaneous letter to no one in particular, hurling blind questions into cyberspace: \”How can we as citizens of the world not take action against the violence that impacts all of us as human beings, impacts all of us who praise and value democratic principles?\”
Mission to Heal the World
March 7, 2002
The event is expected to draw Jews, religious leaders and environmentalists from around the country and overseas.
Meet Me at Third and Fairfax
February 28, 2002
These days, Third and Fairfax is pure traffic mayhem. Bulldozers, big rigs and construction workers jam the city streets and block available driveways. Trying to park at Farmers Market, the historical market and eatery that has drawn locals and tourists for 68 years, is like entering a revolving door and not stopping. Not only is the Market going through a $45-million revival, but a new outdoor shopping mall, The Grove at Farmers Market, is being erected, for a projected March 15 opening, amidst a flurry of dissension and exhilaration.
Together in Nature
September 6, 2001
For the eight Israeli and nine American teens in the Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership program, Project Hevrei Teva, the scene was right out of the movie \”Deliverance,\” only this scene, a campground in Sequoia National Park, was real life, and a real bear was standing before them.
None of the Israelis had ever seen one before. Project leader Josh Lake, head of the Shalom Nature Institute, which helped develop the month-long program, calmly directed the teens to stand together and start waving their arms high in the air. Suddenly, the absent-minded bear stopped slobbering over the teens\’ backpacks and looked around; something had spooked him. The next thing they knew, the bear was hightailing it for the woods.
The Search for an Alzheimer’s Cure
August 2, 2001
For most people in the beginning stages of Alzheimer\’s disease, the simplest task, like writing a check, becomes a Herculean undertaking.
Overweight and Counting … Down
June 28, 2001
When Reena first entered the program a few years ago, she was a shy and baggy-outfitted 12-year-old, weighing 170 pounds, unsure if this would be just another boring visit to the doctor. But her single mom, a registered nurse, is acutely aware of the health issues involving overweight children.
A Jewish Environment
May 31, 2001
One of the country\’s fastest-growing environmental groups, the interfaith community, has been gearing up to fight President George W. Bush\’s new energy policies.
Exploring Faith’s Price
May 3, 2001
\”Love and Liberation: When the Jews Tore Down the Ghetto Walls\” by Ralph David Fertig (Writers Club Press, $17.95)
On Jan. 9, 1807, Prince Jerome of Prussia decreed that the fortifications of the ancient city of Breslau could be destroyed. After 540 years of isolation, the Jews of Breslau tore down the ghetto gates. Under Napoleonic law, they were now free to pursue their religion while becoming citizens of the state.
Wolpe’s Defense
April 26, 2001
Many of Rabbi David Wolpe\’s congregants at Sinai Temple in Westwood took strong exception to a series of sermons he had delivered before and during Passover that examined the question of faith despite doubt and questioned the historical veracity of the Exodus.
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