Although Californians do not go to the polls for another four months, Proposition 22 has already taken an early lead in the race to become the hot button issue of Election 2000.
During her two-hour visit to the center, Clinton met privately with the families; she read a children\’s book, \”The Rainbow Fish,\” to pre-schoolers and lobbied hard for tougher federal gun-control and hate-crime laws.
\”As a board member… they gave me an aliyah, and after I said the blessing, one of the gabbais, [Sid Burke] said, as a joke, \’Soraya, have you ever been bat mitzvahed?\’ I said, \’No,\’ and he said, \’Now you have.\’\”
Executive Director Harriet Rossetto thinks that the new campus — named after lead donors Jona Goldrich, Sol Kest and Warren Breslow — will make a dramatic difference in the way Beit T\’Shuvah will offer assistance.
During his two years of service, 33-year-old Scott Svonkin brought greater visibility to the Valley JCRC with projects like Mitzvah Day and the Rabbinic Advisory Council, and increased the group\’s contact with area legislators like Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Congressman Brad Sherman.
There were a multitude of good works to choose from during the Jewish Federation Valley Alliance\’s fifth annual Mitzvah Day, from the high-profile CROP Walk for Hunger to tree-planting at Lake Balboa to canned food drives at every temple from Simi Valley to North Hollywood.
If you need proof that miracles still happen in this world, look no further than Benjamin Kadish.
Pressman is in a reflective mood as he approaches his 80th birthday, which will be celebrated this weekend with a music/variety show in the Gindi Auditorium at the University of Judaism. Pressman will perform with family and friends who work in show business.
Afraid to speak for any one faction, our leaders spoke for none, while the public schools declined.
Last week I spoke to a large crowd of parents at a \”Jewish Day School Expo\” at Milken Community High School. Most of the parents didn\’t know what schools were available or where they were located. But they were eager indeed.
