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April 1, 2004

Chapman Announces Shoah Contest Winners

Andrea Adelson April 1, 2004

\”Capturing the horror of those years with ink is almost impossible,\” wrote Stephen Hill, one of 140 finalists in the fifth-annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest sponsored by Chapman University\’s Holocaust education center and The \”1939\” Club.

Nevertheless, more than 1,000 students from 56 schools, mostly in California, made the effort to enter this year\’s contest, an experience in \”becoming a witness to the future,\” said Marilyn Harran, the center\’s director.

Eighth-Graders to Chart Own Course

Andrea Adelson April 1, 2004

Allowing students to chose what they want to study in religious school is sure to loosen a standardized curriculum. But such an exercise in democracy potentially can also instill commitment by its participants.

Jeremiah Society Hopes to Make Crowd Roar

Andrea Adelson April 1, 2004

Music and animal motifs from \”The Lion King\” will provide thematic structure for the April 18 talent show by members of the Jeremiah Society, a group serving Orange County\’s developmentally disabled Jewish adults.

\”The talent show uncovers hidden talent among our handicapped adults,\” said the group\’s founder, Rose Lacher, of Orange, whose daughter, Amy, 55, is a member.

Chabad Brings Brooklyn to L.A.

Gaby Wenig April 1, 2004

Amid the kosher restaraunts, Judaica stores and storefront synagogues on a particular stretch of Pico Boulevard, a little piece of Brooklyn has just been built.

OK, the new three-story, 47,000-square-foot brown-brick building is hardly little, but it is straight out of 770 Eastern Parkway, the Crown Heights address that houses the central Chabad center and the headquarters of their former spiritual leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, otherwise known as \”the Rebbe.\”

A Writer’s Road

Naomi Pfefferman April 1, 2004

\”I don\’t ever read reviews,\” playwright Jessica Goldberg said. \”I\’m too sensitive … I\’d rather not know.\”

Catharsis Found in Haggadah Artwork

Gaby Wenig April 1, 2004

While Israeli artist Avner Moriah was creating \”Haggadat Moriah\” (Moriah Haggadah), his wife, Andy, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.

\”I sat next to her when the chemicals were dripping in,\” said the 50-year-old artist, in Los Angeles this week for an exhibit opening of his work at the University of Judaism. \”In Israel everyone davens and says \’Tehillim\’ when someone is sick, but I came up with images for the haggadah. When I started, the images were really small but as she got healthier, they became more colorful and more lively. When I finished [and Andy recovered] I realized that I had painted my own journey from Egypt.\”

Exile the So-So Seder

Sandee Brawarsky April 1, 2004

Some people like their Passover seders just as they remember them: the same lines recited by the same relatives with the same emphasis, the same songs, jokes and foods, the same delicate glassware that picks up the light in a certain way, reflecting past and present.

Passion of Pesach

Rabbi Michael Beals April 1, 2004

In my junior year at UC Berkeley, I brought an Egyptian co-resident from International House named Khalid to Purim services.

This was my gesture toward international understanding and cultural appreciation between Muslim and Jew. What a disaster!

Money Buys Control

Bill Boyarsky April 1, 2004

The angry man in the back of the room at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana was shaking his fist and calling us crooks.

I made a big mistake — eye contact. With me in his range, he raised his hand, and I think his middle finger, and yelled, \”You!\” Being a city ethics commissioner, I didn\’t think I should be called a crook in public.

The Drawbacks of the Proposed Pullback

Dr. Nadav Morag April 1, 2004

The targeted killing of Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin and the \”open season\” that Israel has declared against Hamas leaders and those of other Palestinian terrorist organizations must be viewed as part of a larger Israeli policy designed to achieve a number of objectives.

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