\”We now tax Californians 2.7 cents per capita for all public art support,\” Paul Minicucci said, noting that in Canada, which has 4 million fewer residents than California, the National Arts Council has a budget of $660 million. He said similar figures for European nations are \”simply off the charts.\”
A year and a half ago, Woodland Hills resident Steve Handelman believed he had a novel idea: merchandise bearing the slogan \”Got Peace?\” Before long, the writer got his wife, Trudy Handelman, a medical dental consultant; and his children, Alexandra, 13, and Gabriel, 9, on board. He produced baseball caps, T-shirts, even a plush Holstein cow riffing off of the slogan.
While you won\’t find Sarah Schecter soaring through the skies like Tom Cruise in "Top Gun," the Los Angeles resident has the honor of becoming the Air Force\’s first female rabbi.
After reading Rabbi Mordecai Finley\’s article about his son in Iraq as a Jewish soldier liberating Arab people (\”Jewish Values Guide Marine\’s Life in Iraq\” Aug. 8), I am reminded of some 20 years ago having the honor of serving in the Israeli Army with Rabbi Finley\’s younger brother, Steve, as Israeli soldiers liberating Lebanon of aggressors.
What\’s green on the outside and has more than 2,000 of Los Angeles\’ sharpest legal minds on the inside? The Wiltern Theatre, when it became the site of Bet Tzedek Legal Services\’ seventh annual Justice Ball.
The suicide bombings that hit Israel this week shattered the relative calm that had taken hold in Israel and the West Bank this summer. How they will affect the cease-fire declared by Palestinian terrorist groups and implementation of the "road map" peace plan is anybody\’s guess.
\”I have developed a habit when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it,\” Richard Ingrams wrote in his July 13 column.
\”Back in my grandfather\’s time, the diamond business was almost entirely Jewish,\” Aaron Furlong said, as he graded small stones. \”Mazel was your word, and if you went against it, you were ostracized from the business.\”
Mariah Edry, sits on a wooden garden swing in the hot Israeli sun, lazily watching her three children on the playground of Beit Canada, a Jerusalem absorption center.
Yochai, one of her 2-year-old twins, chases a gray cat, while his sister, Emunah, climbs the slide ladder, crying for her bottle. Although the temperature has topped a sweltering 100 degrees, Edry, a newly arrived immigrant from North Hollywood, is happy that her children are outside.
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