They may be small in numbers, but Jewish Republicans were out in full force during Inauguration weekend, partying as George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States.
There\’s something funny going on at Hillel at Pierce and Valley Colleges. Comedy Nite 2001 features an array of comedians hitting the stage at Pierce College raising laughter and funds for Hillel programming.
When Florence Hoffman, 76, says, \”my children are very well-behaved and very intelligent,\” she sounds like any other Jewish grandmother, brimming with pride.
Marvin Himlin believes with all his heart that the Boy Scouts of America and the United States Supreme Court did right by keeping avowed homosexuals from leadership positions in the Scouts. \”Young kids coming into their sexuality are too impressionable, and I don\’t think kids need to be introduced to that.\”
In the eyes of television, radio and print editors and reporters, who speaks for the Los Angeles Jewish community?\n
Andrew Felder, a 17-year-old Encino native, is our first Athlete of the Week. Felder has excelled on and off the field, according to Maccabi Games coach Kobi Goren.
That joke about the world\’s shortest book being \”Great Jewish Athletes\” was finally put out to pasture last week. On Jan. 20, the West Valley Jewish Community Center hosted the Ninth Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
First comes love, then comes marriage. But when baby makes three, an interfaith couple has to face hard decisions about their child\’s religious upbringing.
\”Now I must get back into politics, that\’s the only way to help the Democrats return to power,\” said U.S. Rep. Henry Arnold Waxman, sitting in his small, plain district office on crowded Third Street near La Cienega Boulevard.\n
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