On paper, the Rosh Hashanah ritual of Tashlich is about doffing one\’s sins to start the new year with a clean slate. For Jason Mauro, 16, it\’s also about beach football
\”Hy looked at me and said, \’He\’s not Jewish,\’\” recalled his wife, Zucky Altman, 89. \”I said, \’So what? He\’s hungry.\’ From that moment on, we decided we would just feed everybody.\”
Having cancer has emboldened Kaufman in other ways, too — after her first surgery in 1999, she traveled to Israel for the first time.
\”We want to nurture a diverse body of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community and have respect for themselves and others.\”
It was a sight Mar Vista doesn\’t see every day — a guitar-studded procession of more than 100 Jewish revelers marching jubilantly down South Barrington Avenue with five Torah scrolls.
The mural was meant to be a collaboration: A public arts agency led the bid for its creation, the surrounding community approved its design and Chicago artist John Pitman Weber stayed in the homes of local residents while he and a team of volunteers painted it during the summer of 1993.
The notes are short, direct and never signed. They come from all over Los Angeles, from the South Los Angeles tenements to the San Fernando Valley suburbs. Their authors differ in age, ethnicity and religion, but have at least one thing in common: They all live with HIV/AIDS.
Their gratitude is directed at Project Chicken Soup, an L.A.-based nonprofit whose volunteers gather twice a month to cook nutritious, kosher meals and deliver them, free of charge, to the doors of clients across the city.
When the boys decided to raise funds for developmentally disabled children in Israel, they made an effort to involve their families, their community and even their four-legged friends.
Ann Spicer\’s experience is not unique among the more than 100,000 Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States after the war. But she has chosen to share her memories this year in a unique way — by contributing this photograph to a \”Shoah Quilt\” project put together by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks in honor of Yom HaShoah
Stop me if you\’ve heard this one before.
Student gets into good university. Student obtains esteemed degree. Graduate flounders in unsteady job market; must confront the dreaded possibility of moving back in with her parents, Ima and Abba, whom I dearly love — and come college, was all too ready to leave.
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