It has a gym. It has a teen center. And with Sunday\’s well-covered dedication, the new $4.5 million state-of-the-art Ferne Milken Youth & Sports Complex — an addition to the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills — now has a lot of visibility.\n\n
The grocery store used to be a painful place for my 10-year-old son. He has trouble making decisions when there are too many choices. Hence, when in search of an after-school snack, Ralph\’s became his private, post-modern, market-driven hell. \”Okay Aaron, what\’s it gonna be?\” I\’d ask, with the largess of a dad secure in the knowledge he can afford anything in the store.
You go out. You talk to a lot of people you don\’t know. Maybe you gossip a little. Maybe you flirt. Maybe you try too hard and end up acting just a bit like someone else.
You wake up the next day with the uneasy feeling that you\’ve just gotten drunk and had a one-night stand. But you haven\’t. You just have what I think of as a mild \”shameover,\” that uneasy feeling that you\’ve woken up with a stranger and that stranger is you.
A full complement of interesting visitors met with the Jewish Journal in recent days, starting with the wife of a presidential candidate and continuing with a museum director from Berlin, an Israeli cabinet minister, and the first Arab woman to serve in Israel\’s parliament.
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