Alex Mylyavsky had been in Los Angeles for three months as a refugee from Kiev, Ukraine. He was looking for a job, but it was a vicious cycle: he couldn\’t get a job without experience, but how could he get experience without a job?
A physician might be queen of the operating room, or a lawyer king of the courtroom, but put them up on a bimah, and without some serious background, they\’ll feel fumbling, foreign and clueless.
The Jewish community in the West Valley and surrounding areas was rocked Feb. 5 by the murder of William and Bertha Lasky, former members of Temple Solael.
To find out where Scott Svonkin gets his Jewish commitment, you needn\’t search beyond his own parents.
What\’s the difference between ignorance and apathy? The answer to the old joke — "I don\’t know and I don\’t care" — has often been used to define young Americans of the past decade.
We\’ve elected an \”Education President.\” Now, get ready to choose the \”Education Mayor.\”
Okay, eggheads, Contemporary Comedy 101 is in session. Pop quiz: Who\’s the funniest comedian to have appeared on HBO — Dennis Miller or Bill Maher? If your answer to this trick question was Home Box Office CEO Jeff Bewkes, proceed to the head of the class.
When Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz delivered a sermon about survival of the soul to a group of rabbis in Los Angeles in 1996, a charged discussion followed, and an Orthodox rabbi remarked that he had never before heard rabbis publicly discuss the supernatural.
For those who struggle with the concept of God, the primary issue is God\’s existence. Once established, one\’s belief in the divine informs other areas, such as the afterlife, reincarnation and resurrection.
Actress Marcia Gay Harden is a Texan, non-Jewish and the daughter of a U.S. Navy captain who regularly moved his family around the world. So she has had to do her homework, she says, to portray the tough-yet-vulnerable Jewish characters that have won her wide acclaim.
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