In a unique effort to redefine the future relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, 14 Israeli 10th-graders arrived last week to participate in what may be the first student-exchange program between Israeli schools and a non-Orthodox Los Angeles Jewish day school.
Orel was killed at the start of what was to be the happiest week of her young life.
The divisions in the United States between Orthodox Jews on one side and Reform/Conservative Jews on the other have widened over the years, perhaps hastened by the increase in intermarriage, by the tendencies of the two groups to take opposing sides recently on political issues, by the demographic changes that have tilted in favor of the Orthodox.
More than $2.2 million in grants — including $1.7million to the Israel Experience Program — was committed by the Jewish Community Foundation last month to local programs benefiting a variety of Jewish organizations.
\”Soleil\” will debut here at the Director\’s Guild on Oct. 28, the gala opening of the second annual Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival, sponsored by the Sephardic Educational Center.
\”The Merchant of Venice\” is 400 years old. The play was first entered on the register of the Stationer\’s Company in July 1598, along with a proviso that it shouldn\’t be published till the Lord Chamberlain gave his consent. And that didn\’t happen until 1600. It may be of some small comfort to know that, even in Shakespeare\’s day, artists and managers had to shear their way through red tape.
Documentary focuses on spiritual transformation of Rodger Kamenetz
The Chabad Telethon — that unique mix of caring, sharing and good production values — returns to the small screen this Sunday, Aug. 30, from 5 p.m. to midnight on UPN Channel 13.
Instead of bringing home a Gucci handbag or a recipe for great risotto, Esther Elfenbaum returned from Italy with a host of bright, new ideas that could transform preschools as we know them.
Back in the 1970s, Michael and Susan Strassfeld\’s \”The Jewish Catalog\” pioneered a kind of People\’s Guide to Judaism that felt comfortable and familiar to the Boomer generation.
