Vered Kashani, 29, was on the phone arranging hotel rooms for 22 Israeli terror victims scheduled to visit Los Angeles on Aug. 15, when she glanced at her computer and saw there had been an attack in the Emmanuel settlement in Israel.
Although Shelley Ventura-Cohen had been to France several times before as a tourist with an interest in French culture,this visit — on an American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) mission to counteract French anti-Semitism — was unique.
For their master\’s project, the women created a bereavement Web site, where those who are grieving are able to find the resources available to them in the community to help them through their dark periods.
It\’s 10 a.m. on Shabbat at The Kabbalah Centre on Robertson Boulevard and the crowds are starting to converge in anticipation of the Torah reading.
\”What on earth is that?\” asks Jordan, a 27-year-old actor in Los Feliz.
He is staring at a dancing rabbi on a flatbed truck that is inching its way down Vermont Avenue, one of the main boulevards in Los Feliz.
In the midst of the chaos of trying on bridal gowns, negotiating with caterers, checking out wedding halls and booking a band, bride-to-be Rochel Friedman decided to take a course.
Grawitzky and his wife, Chana, started It\’s Delish 10 years ago with $100,000 in start-up capital borrowed from credit cards and free-loan societies.
\”Mishkon,\” says Rabbi Dan Shevitz \”is about possibilities. We try to emphasize the possibilities of observance and encourage people to curious about their spiritual trajectory.\”
Although Shevitz was speaking of his Venice congregation Mishkon T
Since its inception in 1998, SNC has been introducing Jewish students across the United States to a part of their religion they didn\’t even know existed: environmental spirituality.
Both Temple Beth Am and the Jewish Studies Institute of the Simon Wiesenthal Center hosted Jewish and Christian clergymen earlier this month at interfaith forums at which scriptural sparring and cultural clashes made for heated discussions and ultimately ecumenicalism.
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