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June 6, 2002

Beyond the Headlines

Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz June 6, 2002

I recently returned from eight days in Israel. After months of reaching for the newspaper first thing each morning and follow with online searches for even more recent events, I felt a strong need to go to Israel and see firsthand how things were going. I was nervous before I left due to the constant photos of destruction and despair. It is the first time that I blessed each of my children before departing on a trip.

Native Son

J. D. Smith June 6, 2002

A few months ago, I wrote a story in these pages about my experiences as a Jewish Big Brother. As Paul Harvey says, here\’s \”The Rest of the Story.\”

Hate in Newport Beach

Nacha Cattan June 6, 2002

As a new study shows a rise in anti-Semitism in the United States, a group accused of Holocaust denial is preparing to unleash a media campaign against what it calls \”Jewish-Zionist power.\”

The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) in Newport Beach, Calif., hopes to \”dramatically increase\” its appearances on radio and television programs to spread anti-Israel messages it says Americans are now more willing to hear. Called anti-Semitic by hate-watch groups, the IHR has a modest following and a small operation in the United States. But the institute set off alarm bells when it co-organized a Holocaust revisionism conference that was to take place in Beirut last year.

Challenge Issued

Andrea Adelson June 6, 2002

Gloria Lenhoff\’s music debut was her bat mitzvah. Instead of reciting Torah, she amazed guests with a chapter from the Song of Songs, singing in a pitch-perfect soprano voice.

Since then, she has performed in a dozen languages on prominent stages, starred in a television movie and picked up the accordion. Now 47, she currently sings gospel with The Miracles, a touring choir of residents from Baddour Center, a 120-acre, Methodist-backed village for the mentally retarded in Mississippi. Since Gloria joined the choir, after relocating two years ago from Orange County, its repertoire has expanded to include Hebrew melodies. She also occasionally serves as cantorial soloist at Tupelo\’s Temple B\’nai Israel.

Orange County Up Front

Journal Staff June 6, 2002

Orange County up front: news, media, info, updates from Orange county

Stay Connected

Kimber Anapoell Sax June 6, 2002

Orange County. At least 60,000 Jewish residents creating over 20,000 Jewish households spanning 800 square miles. Within the borders of this vast area, we can find about 25 synagogues, great Jewish day schools, numerous Jewish organizations … and you.

In May, The Jewish Journal of Orange County launched its premier issue. As the \”numbers\” person for The Jewish Journal, I know that the statistics listed above mean a target market for advertisers. But far more importantly, I believe they prove that O.C. Jewry deserves an independent Jewish news source that facilitates your connection to Jewish life.

Starting Over

Andrea Adelson June 6, 2002

Ellen and Francis (not their real names) are examples of a growing trend among formerly upper-middle-class women in their 50s and 60s, who undergo a life-crisis and plunge into financial straits. Orange County\’s Jewish Family Service, a social service agency that provides group and individual counseling to 7,000 clients from its $925,000 budget, has seen a 26 percent increase in pleas for assistance from women in transition in the last year, says Mel Roth, the agency\’s director. The agency has added a third full-time counselor to cope.

Summer Camp

Andrea Adelson June 6, 2002

For parents who crave structure in summer for footloose children, space is still available at a handful of local Jewish day camps for elementary- and middle school-aged youth. Themed, half-day preschool camps at synagogues, though, are filling fast.

New this summer is a camp in Rancho Santa Margarita that is already proving popular. Morasha Jewish Day School will serve as a second site for Silver Gan Israel, the county\’s largest Jewish day camp, which is organized and operated by Huntington Beach\’s Hebrew Academy.

Moving in the In-Laws

Naomi Pfefferman June 6, 2002

When advertising executive Marshall Karp decided to try playwriting in 1979, he read every Neil Simon comedy. \”One thing I learned is that certain characters can get away with murder,\” says Karp, 60, whose Simonesque play, \”Squabbles,\” opens at the Huntington Beach Playhouse June 21. \”An elderly curmudgeon-like Walter Matthau from \’The Sunshine Boys\’ can say anything and get a laugh. Put the same words in a 30-year-old mouth and people will want to smack him.\”\n\nKarp took heed and envisioned his protagonist as a crotchety coot. Then he asked his wife a loaded question. \”I said, \’What would happen if your father lived with us and my mother moved in?\’ And she said, \’My God, that would be a disaster.\’\”\n\nThe idea provided the premise for \”Squabbles,\” which pits cranky ex-cabbie Abe Dreyfus against an equally crabby in-law. The battleground is the home of their respective children: \”I couldn\’t exactly throw [my mother] out in the cold,\” Abe\’s son-in-law says.

Have Rabbi, Will Travel

Debbie L. Sklar June 6, 2002

Ricky Nelson, whose hit \”I\’m a Traveling Man,\” put him on the map decades ago, has a lot in common with Rabbi Marc Rubenstein.

Like the character in the song, Rubenstein spends a good portion of his time traveling the county in various capacities, from acting as a self-appointed social worker to serving as the rabbi of Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach.

Rubenstein, 52, born into a Conservative family in New York City, studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before obtaining his bachelor\’s degree in religion and history from the American University in Washington, D.C. His rabbinical training was conducted at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York.

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