"Big Brother\’s" Josh Feinberg is no Ethan Zohn, the curly-haired Jewish winner of "Survivor: Africa" who flew so low under the radar viewers almost forgot he was there.
Call it a mission with a mission.\”It was the most amazing trip,\” Dr. Charles Pollick told The Journal. \”I\’ve been to Israel many times, but they really rolled out the red carpet for us.\”
Rashi Hebrew Academy, a new yeshiva for learning disabled and gifted children, will open Sept. 3 at Congregation Shaarei Tefila on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.
In June 1956, a Jewish 15-year-old girl named Kathy Kohner began tagging along with some of the neighborhood boys and driving out from her Brentwood home to the beach in Malibu. The sport of surfing intrigued her, and she convinced the boys to teach her. Because she was young, slight and a girl, the surfer dudes took to calling her \”Gidget,\” short for \”girl midget.\”
When she told her screenwriter dad, Frederick Kohner, a Czech-born refugee who fled from the Nazis, about the goings on, he wrote the 1957 novel, \”Gidget,\” featuring the lingo and subculture she brought home from the beach.
\nWhen Melanie Mayron read an early script of the iconic yuppie angst-fest \”thirtysomething\” in 1987, she rushed to the telephone. The series\’ creators had portrayed her character, Melissa, as Jewish, fat and troubled. But the famously redheaded actress didn\’t want any of that. She\’d already been a recurring character on another show about a food-obsessed Jewish chick, the 1970s sitcom, \”Rhoda.\” And she was tired of the cliché.
On my first day as editor-in-chief of a heavily financed Bay Area Internet startup whose mission — its mostly female staff of trendy 20-somethings recited like a mantra — was to "empower" young women, I realized I had a big problem.
As the summer draws to a close, Jason Kahan feels anxious and excited: soon his firstborn, Aron, is to begin his freshman year of college at UC Santa Barbara.
When Adam Bergman researched colleges toward the end of his senior year at Milken High School, he looked very closely at the quality of their soccer teams and not so closely at the size of their Jewish populations.
This year, back-to-school shopping for my son, Zack, includes the requisite binders, notebooks and new pair of sneakers.
When Brianna Ross passes by Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills, she signs one word to her mother over and over again: "School, school."
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