When She Smiles
July 4, 2002
Los Angeles has just bid farewell to one of its most acclaimed and popular Torah teachers.
Judy Gruen
Pre-Pesach Culinary Blues
March 21, 2002
The pre-Pesach season is both exciting and disturbing to my family. Exciting, because due to our exuberant cleaning for the holiday, emptying drawers, overturning mattresses and, in general, preparing the house for a visit by Martha Stewart, we find all kinds of things that have been missing in action for months.
Six Months Later
March 7, 2002
Sept. 11 was a watershed event in American history. Every decent person felt shock and revulsion to the very core.
The Way it Is
February 21, 2002
This week, Atlas spoke at B\’nai David-Judea Congregation in Los Angeles to a small but passionately concerned group of local Jews about the state of affairs in Israel and about the phenomenal impact of Arutz 7 (Channel 7) in particular.
Confront and Comfort
November 29, 2001
Avi Schnnur doesn\’t get a lot of sleep these days. Schnnur, a West Los Angeles physicist who works for the defense industry, now spends nearly all his nonwork hours putting the finishing touches on a communitywide conference he has organized, billed as \”Spiritual Responses to September 11.\”
From Baptist to Beshert
April 5, 2001
Growing up in Mississippi, the granddaughter of devout Baptist sharecroppers, Delores Gray came from what she calls \”a praying background.\”
People of the Book
March 29, 2001
Business has continued to burgeon in the decade since Rabbi Shimon Kraft and his wife, Elizabeth, opened the 613 Mitzvah Store. There is rarely a slow time in the shop.
Local ArtscrollContributors
March 29, 2001
A growing number of Angelenos have either authored or sponsored Mesorah Artscroll texts.
The 700 Habits of Highly Defective Parents
November 30, 2000
Gone are the days when responsible parents could get all the child-rearing wisdom they needed from Dr. Spock\’s \”Baby and Child Care\” and the occasional coffee-klatch with another parent or a clergyman.
Challenging Content
September 21, 2000
Hollywood may be taking a drubbing lately for its content and marketing practices, but if you ask Mark Honig, the industry has no one to blame but itself.
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