Long before last August, when he had his bar mitzvah at Santa Monica\’s Beth Shir Shalom, 13-year-old Alex Miller has practiced what he has been preached: charity and tikkun olam.
For him, it all began in 1996, when Miller\’s third grade class participated in Super Sunday.
\”I really enjoyed it,\” he recalls. \”Whenever a phone opened up, me and my friend would run for it.\”
Organ donation has long been seen as taboo, but Jewish leaders have long encouraged it. So what is holding back the community?
More than 220 Jewish environmental activists gathered in Malibu last weekend for this year\’s Mark and Sharon Bloome Jewish Environmental Leadership Institute, sponsored by the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL). Professionals from Jewish educational, environmental and outreach institutions came from as far as Canada, Europe and Israel.
After a gay-rights vote, Reform and Orthodoxy glare at each other across an abyss of mutual incomprehension
Paul Koretz, a 44-year-old politician, owns up to an unusual distinction. He is the only member of the city council in the 15-year history of West Hollywood to have a wife and family at home.
The former fiscal administrator for the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has been arrested and charged with embezzling $1.179 million from the Reform movement\’s seminary.\nJean M. Thorbourn, 61, of Sherman Oaks, forged numerous checks between 1989 and 1997, using a dean\’s signature stamp, and apparently applied a considerable part of the money to finance production of independent films, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney\’s office.
Favorite sons George W. Bush and Al Gore scored their knockout victories Tuesday.
Anyone with a computer can now access a tremendous amount of information, opinion, and soft propaganda for and about almost any candidate running for national or state office. Moving beyond newspaper Web archives, people can research candidates by examining several nonpartisan and individual candidate sites.
California\’s ballot initiatives have been making laws and national headlines since 1911. Designed by Governor Hiram Johnson to take politics directly to the people and over the heads of a corrupt legislature, the initiative process often focuses on populist issues. California voters have used their votes to spotlight issues across the political gamut from environmental concerns (Proposition 65) to property taxes (Proposition 13) to immigration (Proposition 187) to affirmative action (Proposition 209), campaign finance reform (Proposition 208), and legal gambling (Proposition 5) .
When it comes to the Jewish vote in next Tuesday\’s 13-state primary, George W. Bush is a dead man.
