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.
If the multitude of Jewish events are any indication, the holidays hit hard this season.
In a sign that the new Jewish buzzwords of \”renaissance and renewal\” are intrinsically linked to education, a top Jewish education professional has been tapped to oversee a national push to infuse Jewish life with more meaning.
Helen Burnstein, the former president of the United Teachers of Los Angles, used to argue, \”Teachers want what students need.\” Many Jewish educators and parents feel the same way about Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). \”Jews want what LAUSD needs.\” Educational excellence, higher standards, and more enrichment activities have become the mantras of educational reformers.
It\’s not that Congregation Knesseth Israel is in the wrong part of town. It\’s that the tiny traditional congregation — located on Robertson about a mile from Pico — is just a bit too far south of just the right part of town.
