Torah Portion
Why is this night different from all other nights?
Anne Meara\’s \”After-Play,\” a conversation piece now at the Canon Theater in Beverly Hills, is a kind of \”Look Back in Anguish\” conducted by two middle-aged couples whose lives seem to encompass all the failings of the past half century: broken families,marital spite, psychoanalytical distress.
Here is how three generations of my family have observed the holiday of Purim, as seen through variations on the recipe for hamantaschen.
I found your article \”Weathering the Crisis\”(March 13) little more than loshonhora (gossip). I have been in a few medical institutions in my 20 years as a registered nurse, but none such as the City of Hope, until seven years ago when I was diagnosed with acute leukemia and required a bone marrow transplant.
Sometime this spring, a report will be issued inLos Angeles by a select panel of rabbis and Jewish community leaders,recommending ways to stabilize Southern California\’s booming garment industry.
This story should be called The People vs. The Executive Committee. The People in this instance are the families and individuals who make up the approximately 5,000-strong membership of the Westside Jewish Community Center on Olympic Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue.
Like the priest in her latest movie, director Lesli Linka Glatter is finding her own faith.
My girlfriend of three months, some friends, one of her employees and I went out to dinner the other night. This employee is a friend of my girlfriend\’s, and they socialize frequently.
When Rabbi Gordon Bernat-Kunin founded an informal group dedicated to bringing together young Jewish adults to celebrate Shabbat, he named it Makor, meaning \”source.\”
Meir Lau, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, humorously ridiculed the concept of a joint institute with Orthodox, Conservative and Reform rabbis to prepare candidates for conversion in Israel, while appealing to the non-Orthodox branches of Judaism to preserve the unity of the Jewish people.