Leave the Czech
Mike Levy
January 3, 2002
Vivien Straus grew up on a 660-acre kosher, organic dairy farm on the outskirts of a town of 50 in Marin County.
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San Fernando Valley
Bicoastal Mensch
Mike Levy
January 3, 2002
With the election to pick his successor in the Studio City-to-Sunland seat scheduled for March 5, The Journal caught up with Joel Wachs to reminisce about 30 years of L.A. politics and his new hometown.
Fearing Fear
Jane Ulman
January 3, 2002
My husband, Larry, and I had been training, or so I thought, for the Avon Breast Cancer Three-Day, a 60-mile walk in from Santa Barbara to Malibu last October.
But now I realize that we were really training for a grave new world — for when an act of God, or more likely an act of godlessness, blindsides Los Angeles, shutting down our streets and transportation systems.
Teaching the Kids
Beverly Gray
January 3, 2002
There\’s a 7-year-old girl who attends second grade at a local Jewish day school. She\’s intelligent, but in a classroom setting, she finds it hard to focus: if a fire engine roars down the street, there goes the lesson.
JCCs: From Three to One?
Wendy J. Madnick
January 3, 2002
Can one Jewish Community Center (JCC) serve a population as vast as that of the San Fernando Valley?
That is the question facing Jewish communities from Burbank to Calabasas, and so far, the answer is a resounding no — even from some of the people who launched the idea in the first place.
Living the Chai Life
Wendy J. Madnick
December 20, 2001
They\’re celebrating the fourth night of Chanukah at the Chai Teen and Youth Center, and, to put it mildly, this joint is jumping.
Beyond the Kitchen
Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
December 20, 2001
A roomful of women come together on a chilly December evening in Southern California. They eat, they laugh, they talk. One woman stands up and tells everyone that she learned how to say, \”No.\” Her announcement is met with applause. Another stands up and says how happy she is that she has the support of her friends and family.
Toxic Crusaders
Beverly Gray
October 18, 2001
When Sherman Oaks resident Robina Suwol drove her two sons to school in the Valley March 1998, she didn\’t know she was about to become a crusader. The events of that morning kicked off a chain of events resulting in the Los Angeles Unified School District\’s (LAUSD) new integrated pest control policy, now considered a model for school districts across the nation.
Water Years
Michael Aushenker
October 18, 2001
Remember Hanna-Barbara\’s \”Squiddly Diddly?\” Well, a new cartoon cephalopod has come to town, and his name is Oswald the octopus. Voicing the title character on \”Oswald,\” Nickelodeon\’s new addition to its children\’s line-up, is a Valley boy who has been a popular actor since childhood, Fred Savage.\n\n
Like He Never Left
Mike Levy
October 18, 2001
The ghost of Lenny Bruce still haunts North Hollywood.
Just around the corner from the Lankershim Boulevard hobby shop where Bruce was busted for heroin in 1962, \”Lenny\’s Back\” at the American Renegade Theatre offers a thoughtful, stinging monologue from the grave.
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