What They Did for Love
The Los Angeles Ulpan is one of the nation\’s oldest Israel trips geared to teenagers.
The Los Angeles Ulpan is one of the nation\’s oldest Israel trips geared to teenagers.
\”The goal of the Center is to have unity,\” Shahla Farivar says in her warm Iranian accent. \”The main point is to get the Iranian young people, who were born and raised here, integrated back into the Jewish community.\”
Rivka Haut, one of the original members of Women of the Wall, told her young grandchildren, ages 4 and 7, last Friday night in New York, there will be bat mitzvah at the wall, maybe by the time they come of age. \”It will happen,\” she told me. \”It\’s a momentous event of their lifetime.\”