\”You got any \’swaps\’\”? The question was asked as a greeting by a couple of middle-aged women dressed in forest-green suits, who encountered some other women in forest-green suits in the parking lot of the Long Beach Convention Center, where the National Girl Scouts Convention was being held.
If you were beginning to feel that too much time had passed since you last saw dancing bearded rabbis on television, then fear not, because West Coast Chabad, the organization that sponsors the \”L\’Chaim\” telethon, is broadcasting a special Chanukah party on KCAL-TV Channel 9 each night of Chanukah.
Madonna doesn\’t like to explain her music videos, but in her newest one, \”Die Another Day\” (the title track for the soon-to-be-released James Bond movie), while wearing a dirty, white tank top she sneeringly sings to the camera, \”Analyze this, Analyze this.\” So we will.
It\’s the Bible redone as salad. In \”Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie,\” little tomatoes, leeks and peas bop around ancient Israel (they can\’t walk because vegetables don\’t have legs) telling stories and singing songs about the joys of morality.
\”What you see before you are modern-day partisans,\” said Roz Rothstein at a Oct. 19 dinner co-sponsored by StandWithUs and Media Line honoring former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes. Rothstein, founder and president of StandWithUs, was speaking of her organizations\’ board members, but she urged the standing room-only crowd of 360 to participate in the struggle.
On this particular Wednesday night at the Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE) in Hancock Park, a dozen adults — young professionals, middle-age homemakers and senior citizens — cluster around two tables, studiously bent over worksheets.
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert will appear in San Diego Oct. 15, but there will not be any official representatives from the Jewish community to welcome him at the $1,000-a-plate dinner.
Talia Hill, 11, was born with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and bone deformities. She is hearing impaired, speech impaired, mobility impaired, fine-motor impaired and neither her two arms nor her two legs are the same length. In her short life, she has had multiple surgeries, a hearing aid and has had to take several kinds of medication on a regular basis.
\”A woman came into my office yesterday needing to make a decision about the amputation of her husband\’s leg,\” said Rabbi Levi Meier, the chaplain at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. \”It was a very difficult case, because her husband cannot give proper, informed consent, because his mind is not functioning anymore
For Rabbi Marvin Hier, the new $12.6 million YULA (Yeshiva University of Los Angeles) boys\’ school building gives him both a feeling of pride and a twinge of envy.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.