Tips for an Easier Fast
Jewish Journal
October 2, 1997
An expert at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center has invaluable advice for your Yom Kippur fast.
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October 2, 1997
It’s Time to Talk
Rabbi David Eliezrie
October 2, 1997
It\’s High Holiday speech season. Rabbis prep, call each other withideas, exchange jokes, insights, and witty stories. They ponder thegreat issues of the day and get ready for prime-time talking in therabbinical world. Synagogues may not be full throughout the year, butcome Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, there is hardly an empty pew. Thisyear, attendance will be a bit higher, as Yom Kippur falls on aweekend.
Heartbreak Hotel?
Naomi Pfefferman
October 2, 1997
The Miramar Sheraton Hotel is one of the jewels of Santa Monica.It sits astride a full block on Ocean Avenue and looks west, over thePalisades and the blue Pacific. Inside, there are lush gardens, aluxurious swimming pool and tanned guests who look as if they areemblems of Southern California.\n\nThe hotel is where President Clinton has often stayed duringvisits to Los Angeles.\n\nAnd the Miramar Sheraton is the only Santa Monica hotel that isunionized.
Remembering the ‘Rescuers’
Naomi Pfefferman
October 2, 1997
Director Peter Bogdanovich is best-known for \”The Last PictureShow,\” \”Paper Moon\” and other films that explore the Americanexperience.\n\nHe is also known for his affairs with youthful, blond andquintessentially American sex symbols: a radiant, 22-year-old CybillShepherd from \”The Last Picture Show\”; the glamorous but doomedPlayboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, murdered in 1980 by herestranged husband; and Stratten\’s younger sister, an actress thegrieving Bogdanovich began mentoring at the age of 13 and marriedseven years later.
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