Maybe you\’ve heard of \”Haven,\” the epic two-part CBS mini-series starring Natasha Richardson that, in recent weeks, was only plastered on every bus, bus bench and bus passenger in the city?
You might see us in the park, holding hands with Danny while walking him from the swings to the slides, and think, "He sure has a weird way of walking.
The good news about being a Jewish parent in Los Angeles is the number of choices you have for your child\’s Jewish education.
Michele Frankel of Fort Lee, N.J., wants her fifth-grade son, Roger, to get a Jewish education, but she also wants him to be able to go to baseball practice and complete his regular-school homework.
Kids Kehilla bills itself as \”a different kind of religious school.\” It is different partly because of its emphasis on theater as a way of introducing children to their Jewish heritage.
Aviva Kadosh, who serves the Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Los Angeles (BJE) as a specialist in religious schools and Hebrew-language programs, has been an educator for 34 years.
How can anyone command us to be joyous?" Bill Cohen, director of Los Angeles Hebrew High School (LAHHS), paces in front of the junior seminar meeting in the University of Judaism\’s (UJ) chapel, his hands in the air, his eyes delighted as he conducts a spirited give-and-take with 11th-graders on the theology, rituals and liturgy of Sukkot.
An international Jewish human rights group said it was told by an Iranian official that Jewish groups \”would not be welcome\” at a U.N. conference on racism and discrimination.
Heinz Dormer is almost 90 years old, but his faded blue eyes take on a terrified, faraway look as he remembers an awful place called "the singing forest."
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