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July 29, 1999

Virtual Shabbat

Naomi Pfefferman July 29, 1999

Within minutes of my opening the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP) Virtual Shabbat CD-ROM, people gathered around my desk. Klezmer music was coming from my computer, and kitchen cabinets, appliances and refrigerators were all dancing on my screen.\nAfter an introduction by Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, founder and director of NJOP, I clicked on a picture of a kitchen and started this lively revue; other choices could have been a dining room, a synagogue or something labeled Hebrew crash course.

Images of a Lost World

Naomi Pfefferman July 29, 1999

In 1936, Edward G. Ulmer, the expressionist wunderkind and aspiring filmmaker, chanced to meet the beautiful, young wife of a studio executive — boss Carl Laemmle\’s nephew.

Ticket to Enlightenment

Teresa Strasser July 29, 1999

Ever since I moved to Los Angeles, I\’ve been completely lost.
No, I don\’t mean spiritually or emotionally. I mean literally. I\’ve been lost for pretty much two straight years.

Sit Right Down and Write Yourself a Letter

Rabbi Ed Feinstein July 29, 1999

Write a letter. Address it to those you love — your spouse, your children and grandchild, your friends, your community. Put into this letter what life has taught you: What you learned from childhood, from growing up, from your education. What you learned from marriage and raising children. What you have learned from work, from your triumphs and successes in the world, from your failures and disappointments. What you have learned from the death of loved ones, and the path of mourning and grief. What has life taught you? What is the meaning, the lesson, the wisdom of your life? What is your message?

When Dialogue Fails

Morton A. Klein July 29, 1999

Our July 16 cover story, \”Tense Relations,\” detailed the friction among local Jewish and Arab groups.

Maccabi Magic In Mexico

Brian Schiff July 29, 1999

The Pan Am Maccabi Games are a 12-day Olympic-style athletic and cultural festival for Jewish athletes from around the world.

Protest for Labor Rights

Orit Arfa July 29, 1999

For the past four years, the predominantly Latino hospitality and housing employees at the University of Southern California have been fighting for a written guarantee of job security. Now, union leaders representing the workers have turned to Jewish leaders to support what they consider a call for justice.

Westward Expansion

Julie Gruenbaum Fax July 29, 1999

With its recent purchase of an office building near the corner of Pico Boulevard and Doheny Drive, Chabad has established a two-block stretch of facilities — which the outreach group plans to call \”Rebbe Square\” — in the heart of one of Los Angeles\’ prime Jewish neighborhoods.

Are You My Mother?

Naomi Pfefferman July 29, 1999

All her life, Jeanette Kopitowsky has been searching for a face in the crowd. She scans strangers\’ faces for someone, anyone who looks like herself. Her biological mother. Her father. A sibling.\nThe playwright-actress, who was abandoned by her parents as a baby, grew up in foster homes until she was adopted by a Jewish family at the age of seven. She describes the painful experience in her powerful, one-woman show, \”What\’s Your Name, Who\’s Your Daddy?\” which asks the question, \”Do I exist if I don\’t have anyone to claim me?\”\n\n

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