Like other 18-year-olds around the country, Aaron Canter graduated high school this past June. But unlike most Jewish students, Canter attended a Mass in celebration of his impending graduation. From the sixth though 12th grades, the Northridge teen attended Chaminade College Preparatory, a Catholic school in West Hills.
When I grew up in the outskirts of Philadelphia in the early 1980s, going to a Jewish overnight camp meant spending eight weeks in the Poconos with a bunch of pampered girls with last names like Greenberg, Cohen and Leibman
Today, just steps away from USC\’s fraternity row — which has historically been a symbol of the university\’s typically all-white culture — lies the new site of the campus Chabad House. The 6,500-square-foot Victorian home, which Chabad is in the process of renovating, will be the third site that the organization will occupy since outgrowing its first two locations in the past three years.
Movie studios release very few historical or period films each year, much less a film like \”The Passion,\” which is in Aramaic and Latin with subtitles.
What is she, a clown to you? Actually, yeah. Former Ringling Bros. Circus clown and cancer survivor Jonna Tamases turns to comedy to tell her survival story in \”Jonna\’s Body, Please Hold.\” She performs her funny one-woman show tonight at the Odyssey Theatre.\n
The rabbi of a small, embattled congregation is charging that anti-Semites and self-hating Jews are using zoning laws to get Orthodox Jews out of Hancock Park as an epic eight-year legal battle heads back to court.
When the smoke cleared in Baghdad, most Americans wanted to get out. But Manhattan resident Rachel Zelon opted to go in.
We leave well before dawn and as we speed through darkness I keep asking myself how it is that I\’m now the parent of a college student — I can still remember vividly the details of my own freshman year almost 30 years ago.
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