Having a conversation with Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) students Debra Glasberg and Tzvi Smith is like chatting with two political experts being interviewed on CNN. These two high school students are among the five Jewish teens chosen for the exclusive Sen. Joseph Lieberman Scholars Program.
"I got my first mild concussion over there," Yehuda Pollack said with a sentimental chuckle, pointing to the new auditorium window at Emek Hebrew Academy.
"Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights," croons Adam Sandler in that humorous holiday tune, "The Chanukah Song."
As a young Jewish student in the \’60s, Robin Siegal believed that Chanukah was basically ignored in the public schools she attended, which included Hamilton High School. "
Archie Granot is very careful and precise when making incisions with his scalpel — yet he knows he\’ll never be sued if he makes a mistake.
Los Angeles Board of Education member David Tokofsky has always taken pride in being a Jewish representative in an area that was overwhelmingly Latino.
\”It\’s no sin to be a lefty and she\’s always right,\” instructs Rabbi Elie Stern of Westwood Kehilla in West Los Angeles.
Each year, from Oct. 11 through Nov. 11, retired Cpl. Paul Cohen is all about poppies.
Who says you have to be Jewish to write a play about the Holocaust? Certainly not John O\’Keefe, author of the upcoming \”Times Like These,\” which takes place in Hitler\’s Berlin from 1934-1938.
Talk to any Hebrew school graduate and he or she is likely to have a Hebrew school war story.
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