It was a rough transition for Debbie Murphy. She had just emerged from a difficult divorce after being trapped for two decades in an abusive marriage. Two years ago, she found herself on her own for the first time, unemployed and unequipped.
\”I didn\’t really know until I got into it that it was a Jewish organization,\” said Deborah Jennings, who is now the Talkline shift leader on Thursday nights. \”It took a little getting used to.\”
A wall of neatly coiffed ladies charges up to the counter to place their orders for baked goods on one of the last days before the holidays and one of the last days before Brown\’s Bakery in North Hollywood closes its doors forever. Some of the customers have been buying their cakes, cookies and bread here for as long as the bakery has been open, and that\’s 42 years. Some have been Brown\’s customers even longer, when it was Brown Brothers Bakery on Wilshire Boulevard; some for longer still, when Brown\’s was in the Bronx, during the war.
As founder and chair of Westwood One, the biggest radio network in the country, Norman J. Pattiz has an impact on what\’s carried over the airwaves in the United States and beyond. Now that he is a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, he has an even greater voice in international broadcasting.
Just when we thought it was safe to proclaim the mayoral campaign free from the kind of race-baiting that has tainted previous runs for City Hall, we get this bogus automated telephone message, falsely attributed to Republican candidate Steve Soboroff, attesting to his supposed reliance on \”Jewish money.\”
\nWhen the Skirball Cultural Center opened in April 1996, its founding president and CEO, Rabbi Uri D. Herscher, didn\’t buy the philosophy \”If you build it, they will come.\”
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