BJE Selects ‘Leaf’ for Reading Initiative
Written by Milton Steinberg, the book is based on a historical character, a renegade rabbi who lived during the Roman conquest of Judea and was excommunicated.
Written by Milton Steinberg, the book is based on a historical character, a renegade rabbi who lived during the Roman conquest of Judea and was excommunicated.
Two Irvine synagogues are turning to congregants for money to fund building expansions that are expected to break ground this spring.
Despite winning a $5,900 grant in December 2001 from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to present the program free to 2,000 students, Hadassah\’s Long Beach-Orange County chapter has, so far, found few takers.
A new anti-oil television advertising campaign that is intended to needle the consciousness of fuel-guzzling SUV owners will be making a lot of local residents uncomfortable.
Since the outpouring of Valentine\’s Day sentiment falls this year on Shabbat, Westminster\’s Temple Beth David intends to combine the two with a special sisterhood-led service that follows a dinner featuring recipes by food writer Sharon Boorstin.
For using his pulpit and pen to advocate for fair housing, civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam war, Rabbi Wolli Kaelter, a rabbi laureate of Long Beach\’s Temple Israel, will be the recipient of an award by the National Council of Jewish Women on Feb. 18.
The Jewish Community Center (JCC) is on the lookout for teen athletes who want to compete in the 2003 JCC Maccabi Games, a week-long international Jewish youth summer games competition, to be held Aug. 8 through Aug. 15.
This year, 70 local athletes will be able to participate in games to be held in Houston and St. Louis, said Matt Lebovits, a Maccabi coordinator. This year\’s sports include boys basketball and soccer (for those 14 and under), boys and girls soccer (for those 16 and under), girls volleyball (16 and under), baseball, tennis, dance and swimming.
In 1997, stimulated by the controversy over whether non-Orthodox converts would be registered as Jews by the Israeli government — the latest battle in the \”who is a Jew?\” wars — The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles began making funds available to what it calls \”pluralism\” projects. The projects are programs and activities aimed at stimulating religious pluralism and supporting \”alternative\” forms of Judaism in Israel, as well as increasing Jewish knowledge among Israel\’s secular population.