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Girlz in the hood

Dikla Kadosh November 9, 2007

\’Miriam\’ and \’Shoshana\’ live in the Pico-Robertson area. They\’re seniors at a religious girls\’ school, they study Torah, dress modestly and keep the Sabbath. But Miriam and Shoshana are not your ordinary Orthodox girls. They rap. They use foul language. They fantasize about professional wrestler Bill Goldberg. And they head up a dreidel-rolling gang. The two faux frumsters are the comedic creations of Kara Luiz and Deena Adar.

Golems, schlemiels, reporter for a day

Shoshana Lewin-Fischer October 26, 2007

We\’re getting into the \”spirit\” of things this month. YeLAdim loves a good scary story, so we asked our friends at the Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles to suggest some of their favorites.

Transcendence — a true story for Yom Kippur

Julie Gruenbaum Fax September 21, 2007

What is it that allowed this family to stay whole and renew the life in themselves when fate, or God, or a violent man, dealt them unimaginable grief? In this season of renewal and introspection, of fate and faith, what can others facing obstacles of any degree learn from this family\’s remarkable ability to transcend the unthinkable?

We must teach about Israel — warts and all

Daniel Sokatch September 14, 2007

The focus on and radical identification with Israel, the substitution of relationship with Israel for relationship with Judaism or Jewishness, has bequeathed to the American Jewish community a blind spot of our own.

It’s not camp, but it’ll do

Shayna Freisleben September 9, 2007

A summer without camp? The thought was incomprehensible. I had my life ahead to travel and explore the world, yet only childhood for camp. Soon, I would be inundated with the stresses of being an adult, and it felt as if I was being forced away from my youth. I wanted to be in Malibu; I wanted to be a Jewish camper.

Street smarts safety program helps Orthodox kids combat abuse

Nancy Sokoler Steiner August 24, 2007

The Safety Kid program — its full name is the Aleinu Julis Child Safety Program — was developed by the Aleinu Family Resource Center, the arm of Jewish Family Service that reaches out to the Orthodox community.

One camp, two camp, red camp, Jew camp

Jay Firestone August 23, 2007

And let me tell you, there\’s nothing quite like a Jewish summer camp. At a time when Jewish identity struggles to compete with the complexities and distractions of the 21st century, the Jewish summer camp experience has somehow continued to thrive on its simplicity.

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