\”The United States was the first country to legally sterilize people for eugenic reasons, and the Nazis took that from us,\” says exhibit curator Dr. Michael Nutkiewicz, adding that anti-immigration sentiment fueled the movement.
Asked what was his proudest accomplishment, outgoing president Arthur Jablon said it was the growing unity of the Valley\’s Jewish community that made his term worthwhile.
Keeping kids in a home with comfortable reference points is the ideal scenario for county and state agencies that place foster children, whether that means within ethnic or religious communities or special-need communities, such as the hearing- impaired.
There are few times when a sense of community is more necessary than when our lives are touched by death. Perhaps that is why more than 400 people from every point along the spectrum of the Los Angeles Jewish community came together Sunday at the site of the new Mount Sinai Memorial Park and Mortuary in Simi Valley for the opening of the park\’s chapel and administration building.
Visiting California for the first time since he took over following his father\’s 47-year reign last year, King Abdullah II of Jordan attended a Beverly Hilton Hotel luncheon Monday and told his audience that prospects of Middle East peace in the near future look good.Speaking before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Abdullah said, \”We can have peace in the Middle East and have it quickly.\”
It all began when Times columnist Al Martinez wrote a column about the events at the Pacific Palisades high school. For those of you unfamiliar with the brouhaha, a number of students took it upon themselves to publish an underground paper for no other purpose than to attack some teachers they disliked. In the course of five issues, they accused their targets of being prostitutes and pedophiles. When they promised to print the addresses and phone numbers of the teachers in an upcoming edition, the administration finally stepped in. They suspended 10 students, as I understand it, and transferred the two ringleaders.In his piece, Martinez accused the grown-ups of over-reacting. He felt that a case could be made for both sides, and wrote that, as usual, the truth was to be found someplace between the two opposing factions.Having known Martinez for a few years, I felt justified in writing him a \”Dear Al\” letter, addressed to his home. In it, I suggested that the students (and their parents) had gotten off lightly. The combination of blatant lies and obvious malice would make them all quite vulnerable to lawsuits, the laws of libel being what they are.
Unemployment hit a 30-year low in April and the economy is, if not booming, at least bouncing. So why is it that so many synagogues, even in wealthy areas, are struggling? Perhaps it is because members fail to understand that dues only go so far, according to Sylvia Moskovitz, executive director at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills.
\”The goal of the Center is to have unity,\” Shahla Farivar says in her warm Iranian accent. \”The main point is to get the Iranian young people, who were born and raised here, integrated back into the Jewish community.\”
Last week the two giants of Jewish activism took the bimah at B\’nai David-Judea to look into the Jewish future, to decipher how to strengthen and expand the Jewish community.
