Andrew Felder, a 17-year-old Encino native, is our first Athlete of the Week. Felder has excelled on and off the field, according to Maccabi Games coach Kobi Goren.
In the eyes of television, radio and print editors and reporters, who speaks for the Los Angeles Jewish community?\n
When Florence Hoffman, 76, says, \”my children are very well-behaved and very intelligent,\” she sounds like any other Jewish grandmother, brimming with pride.
Dr. Scott Braunstein sits in a hospital room with Sam Bottleman, 91, on the Sunday of Chanukah. Bottleman has a neck brace and a deep wound on his head after falling down 12 steps in his apartment building the day before. Braunstein, 27, a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, holds Bottleman\’s hand and asks questions that elicit an entire history.
The Shivyon Minyan may be a 4-year-old prayer group of about 65 people that meets at a hotel once a month, but it has many of the assets that older, more established synagogues recognize are requirements for success: strong lay leaders and a grass-roots base of committed members, the capacity to meet needs that are not being met elsewhere, and a history of challenges and struggles that have strengthened the group\’s character.
Maybe something positive will come out of the current crisis in Israel after all. Perhaps the arrival of many groups from communities all over the world will help further the understanding between Israelis and Diaspora Jews and lead to greater cooperation.
Shomrei Torah Synagogue: 9 a.m. Shabbat service, with guest speaker Cantor Avrum Schwartz discussing Abraham Joshua Heschel on the anniversary of his yahrtzeit.
My children attend private school about an hour outside of New York City. My 9-year-old son recently came home and told me that one of his classmates said he would not be welcome at their family\’s country club.
Every Bar Mitzvah is special, but Al Greenberg\’s was special.
When Becca Yuré turned 13, her enthusiasm for pandas became the focus of her Bat Mitzvah celebration.
