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January 3, 2002
Straight Outta Calabasas
Calabasas may sound like an unlikely origin for a rap magazine, especially one started by a young, Jewish teen.
Leave the Czech
Vivien Straus grew up on a 660-acre kosher, organic dairy farm on the outskirts of a town of 50 in Marin County.
Bicoastal Mensch
With the election to pick his successor in the Studio City-to-Sunland seat scheduled for March 5, The Journal caught up with Joel Wachs to reminisce about 30 years of L.A. politics and his new hometown.
Fearing Fear
My husband, Larry, and I had been training, or so I thought, for the Avon Breast Cancer Three-Day, a 60-mile walk in from Santa Barbara to Malibu last October.
But now I realize that we were really training for a grave new world — for when an act of God, or more likely an act of godlessness, blindsides Los Angeles, shutting down our streets and transportation systems.
Teaching the Kids
There\’s a 7-year-old girl who attends second grade at a local Jewish day school. She\’s intelligent, but in a classroom setting, she finds it hard to focus: if a fire engine roars down the street, there goes the lesson.
JCCs: From Three to One?
Can one Jewish Community Center (JCC) serve a population as vast as that of the San Fernando Valley?
That is the question facing Jewish communities from Burbank to Calabasas, and so far, the answer is a resounding no — even from some of the people who launched the idea in the first place.
Bunny vs. Rabbi
Lindsey Vuolo, Playboy bunny, met her match last month: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Trade an Arafat for a bin Laden?
A line of \”Anti-Terrorist Trading Cards\” came on the market last month. While suspected terrorists make up the lion\’s share of the cards, the series also features U.S. leaders, U.S. weapons, forms of biological warfare and heroes and symbols such as rescue workers, the White House and the Statue of Liberty.
The New Germany
The opening of Berlin\’s Jewish Museum, an architectural marvel that houses a celebration of German Jewish culture, has done wonders to invigorate interest in Germany as a Jewish tourist destination.
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