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Home Pampering Easy as 1, 2, Ahhhhh

No one deserves a spa experience more than you do. Just picture it — warm tubs scented with essential oils, invigorating body scrubs, refreshing botanical blend face masks smoothed on in soothing circular massaging motions and misty showers with luscious gels.

Scales of Injustice

After 25 years of dieting, this is what I know: There\’s more to me than the sum of my parts, no matter how much they weigh.

Botox Treatments Aid Stroke Survivors

Better known for cosmetic enhancement, Botox injections immobilize key muscles in stricken arms or legs, allowing physical therapy and exercise to extend range of motion and flexibility. Effects wear off, so the Botox is reinjected every three months for a year or more.

Boutique Teaches Brides Love Lessons

The Love Boutique sells everything from massage oils to lingerie and romantic board games to self-help books. In keeping with the store\’s philosophy, these items are merely tools to help women feel elegant, sexy and self-confident.

Few Females Filling Mohel Role in U.S.

Weiss-Ishai is one of just a few female mohels in the United States. There are about 35 Reform female mohels and just four trained by the U.S. Conservative movement, as well as a handful who learned outside the United States.

Transplant Recipient Will Parade Success

Like many native Angelenos, Ilene Feder has never been to the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena. However, the Studio City resident not only will be attending the New Year\’s day festivities on Monday, Jan. 2, for the 118th Rose Parade, but will have a vantage point few get to experience: She\’ll be riding on a float.

Mirror, Mirror

Are there any women who were born with perfect bodies who are completely satisfied with those bodies? Women who only eat when they\’re hungry and stop when they\’re full? Who don\’t save up calories for a really big meal? Or go on juice fast days and cabbage soup diets or count calories or carbs or fats or oils or cholesterol or sodium?

Sher Cohen’s Law & Order: Justice Unit

Don\’t call Nancy Sher Cohen at home after 8:30 p.m. \”One of two things is usually true,\” the 54-year-old-litigator said. \”Either I am asleep, because I am exhausted [from all the work], or I am out because I am working.\”

New Hadassah Chief Does Balancing Act

As a mother of two grown children, Morlie Hammer Levin knows the challenges of balancing family, career and spiritual life. But factor in the L.A. native\’s recent New York move, a high-pressure job with a high-profile organization and finding a new religious community and you have the makings of what would be a well-deserved nervous breakdown for anyone else.

Why Women Stray

Diane Shader Smith is a fearless Jewish mother, or would that be redundant? Smith, with her new, hot-selling book, \”Undressing Infidelity: Why More Wives Are Unfaithful\” has gone where very few have dared go in unmasking the myth that women don\’t stray and actually have fun while doing it.

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