Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is right on (\”Jews Should Welcome Evangelical Support,\” July 26.) We should be thanking the evangelical Christian community for their great support of Israel.
The numbers are discouraging for anyone who does not own a home. Every month, California\’s housing prices seem to set new records. The state has the third lowest rate of home ownership in the country. Housing prices put pressure on rents, which rise even as stock-derived income, which cushioned the costs for many, disappears. Competition for affordable housing is intense; waiting lists are long.
With the number of Jewish elderly expected to soar over the coming decade, leaders at the national and local levels realize they must move beyond traditional methods of caring for the elderly to develop new plans and policies.
The East L.A. community of Boyle Heights has always been a neighborhood dominated by immigrants. Today, it\’s a poor Hispanic neighborhood. But Hershey Eisenberg, 75, remembers a different Boyle Heights: It was during the Great Depression, when the community was poor and Jewish, but the sense of community was very rich.
Shirl Bernheim is sitting in her dressing room at the Ahmanson Theatre, her cane tucked in a corner, preparing to transform herself into the hilariously fierce Jewish mama of Charles Busch\’s hit play, \”The Tale of the Allergist\’s Wife.\”
Each room of Belfer\’s three-bedroom home is adorned with his handcrafted Judaica — wall hangings and constructions that capture his love of Judaism, Israel and America.
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