In her latest book, \”The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy,\” Bonnie Friedman sorts through the complex, confusing, ambivalent relationship between therapist and patient by way of her own psychotherapy, revealing the seductive \”thief\” to be Friedman\’s trusted doctor, a fact that the reader realizes immediately, but that takes the author years to understand.
Full-blooded Ashkenazi Jews, we were equal-opportunity cheesecake lovers.
A month before the release of her new film, \”Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones,\” Natalie Portman tackled a more terrestrial conflict: defending Israel.
Shopinisrael.com is one of several sites — including shop4israel.com and israelshop1.com, among others — that allows people to purchase Israeli products with the click of a button.
University Synagogue paid tribute to the 30-year career of Rabbi Allen Freehling, on the occasion of the socially active rabbi\’s retirement, with a gala at the Regent Beverly Wilshire.
Through lectures at university campuses across the United States, television and radio interviews, editorials and now a newsletter on their Web site, the Ayn Rand Institute seeks to influence public opinion, and particularly American policy, toward unequivocally siding with Israel.
The library is a tribute to the memory of the victims and has sparked a new friendship between the two school communities.
A Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles reception welcomed 18 students participating in a cultural exchange sponsored by the Federation\’s Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership. Fourteen students from Tel Aviv\’s A.D. Gordon School and four students from their paired partner, Northridge\’s Abraham Heschel Day School, gathered to reflect on their experience as the Israeli students — all ages 13 and 14 — wrapped up their 10-day visit to Los Angeles.
With pomp, ritual and the added joy that comes when a long wait precedes a happy event, the Los Angeles school of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) ordained its first rabbis May 5 at Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
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