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The Circuit: Arts for All

Arts for All, a program to bring arts education to school districts in Los Angeles County, received $60,000 from the Arts in Schools! Giving Circle, an initiative spearheaded by the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles. The funding for the artist-in-residency program — in dance, music, theater and the visual arts — was presented at the June Arts for All progress report meeting at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles. Pictured at the event are, from left, Laurie Schell, executive director, California Alliance for Arts Education; Amelia Xann, vice president of the Family Foundation Center and Grant Programs at the Jewish Community Foundation; Sonia Simon Cummings, Arts in Schools! Giving Circle co-chair and Foundation donor; Laurie Zucker, executive director, L.A. County Arts Commission; and Mark Slavkin, vice president of education, Music Center of Los Angeles County.
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July 28, 2010

A Bisl Torah — All Over Again

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Israel’s Brain-Drain Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question

If an experienced professional with rare expertise leaves Israel, the impact cannot be understood simply by adding another person to a brain-drain statistic. The more relevant question is how many people with comparable experience remain, how essential that expertise is and how easily it can be rebuilt.

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