My Aunt Illa, a woman capable of great charm and vast intrigues,was hated by both my mother and father.
By Father, because he believed that Illa was so jealous of the love between his brother Zoltan and himself that she prevented her husband from the frequent contact the brothers wanted. And my mother– well, because of the usual animus she held against the women in Father\’s family.
T\’shuvah, which in Hebrew translates as \”repentance, return andresponse,\” is not only part of the name of Gateways Beit T\’Shuvah,the Los Angeles halfway house for recovering Jewish offenders andaddicts. \”It\’s very much a part of what we do here,\” ExecutiveDirector Harriet Rossetto said during a recent interview.
It is a late Friday morning, not long before Rosh Hashanah, and already the tantalizing smells of exotic spices and frying onions are wafting from Marcelle Kadkhoda\’s sunny, compact apartment kitchen.\nThe Persian émigré, in her 70s, is wearing an apron and sensible shoes as she cooks for Shabbat, preparing the family recipes that have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations.\n
Thousands of Los Angeles-area youngsters participate in hands-on workshops.
Jews celebrate the New Year, 5758, a date that hasnothing to do with a Jewish historic event — neither the birth ofAbraham nor the flight of Moses from Egypt to the promised land.
The sermon seminar organized by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California is the group\’s biggest event of the year. Rabbis from allover the Southland get together to share sermon ideas for the High Holy Days. It is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment and sharing.Colleagues present their best materials. Congregations throughout Southern California benefit from this annual exchange of ideas and inspiration.
One of Rabbi David Aaron\’s favorite biblical analogies derivesfrom the story of Jacob\’s dream, in which the patriarch saw a ladder stretching from earth to the heavens.\n
\”Israel has 5 million inhabitants and China has 1.2 billion,\” Kaveh said during a visit to Los Angeles last week. \”However, we are both ancient civilizations, which have survived much suffering and mighty empires.\”
Action by the Commission on International and Transregional Accreditation, commonly known as CITA, marks the first time that any Jewish supplementary school in the United States has been given CITA\’s seal of approval.
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