Apples dipped in honey. And while you\’re at it, dip the challah, too. Chicken soup with knaidel. Here, who\’s gonna finish this last little piece of brisket? What? You didn\’t try the noodle kugel? Don\’t tell me you\’re too full for my homemade honey cake and cookies — it\’s Yom Tov!
Los Angeles has just bid farewell to one of its most acclaimed and popular Torah teachers.
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.
Sept. 11 was a watershed event in American history. Every decent person felt shock and revulsion to the very core.
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.
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.\”
Growing up in Mississippi, the granddaughter of devout Baptist sharecroppers, Delores Gray came from what she calls \”a praying background.\”
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.
A growing number of Angelenos have either authored or sponsored Mesorah Artscroll texts.
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.