Teacher Mordechai Yomtov stood sobbing in his orange prison jumpsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court as he pleaded guilty to two counts of committing continuous sexual abuse on a minor and one count of lewd act on a minor.
\nAll is not lost for the Jewish Community Centers.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
\n\”My Stroke of Luck\” by Kirk Douglas (William Morrow, $22.95)\n\nFive years ago, Kirk Douglas, the legendary tough guy of 84 movies, decided to end his life.
\nWhen Akiva Goldsman was growing up in Brooklyn Heights, his playmates were the mentally ill children who lived in the group home his parents had founded in their rambling old brownstone. The children suffered from autism and schizophrenia — weeping and raging were de rigeuer — but Goldsman, the only child of Jewish psychotherapists, regarded them as \”just my peers.\”
\”Two fires taught me lessons about my life, two fires separated by nearly six decades,\” says the heroine of Kate Wenner\’s debut novel, \”Setting Fires,\” about a documentary filmmaker and her dying father.
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