\”If a cure helps one disease like diabetes, it will be a burden off our health-care system. Even if one treatment comes out of this, then we will have made a difference,\” said Temple Beth Am member Carol Eisner, whose 13-year-old daughter Emma Klatman has type-one diabetes.
On any given day, Wilshire Boulevard Temple\’s Audrey and Sydney Irmas Campus in West Los Angeles is a hub of activity. Built seven years ago for $30 million, the campus attracted new members like a magnet. They came flocking to enroll their children in day school or religious school or attend the many other activities the campus offered.
Now it wants to repeat its success in a part of town that is far less congruous with Jewish life than the Westside: Koreatown. The temple is planning on spending $30 million to revamp its Wilshire Boulevard property and to turn it into a major Mid-City Jewish destination.
The paucity of Jews serving on front lines may explain the dwindling numbers of members belonging to Jewish war veteran organizations.
\”I\’m not part of this sort of chicken-dinner-at-a-hotel fundraising mentality,\” said Rachel Jagoda, the 31-year-old director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. \”I am young and I do have new ideas.\”
You never forget your first, and mine was Milton Steinberg. Not his novel, \”As a Driven Leaf.\” I\’d read that later in life, after my wife, a rabbi, looked at me unbelievingly one day and said, \”You\’ve never read \’As a Driven Leaf?\’\”
If there\’s any truth to the Yiddish proverb \”a half truth is a whole lie,\” then there is a whole lotta lyin\’ going on in the Jewish dating scene.
I have a mere two degrees of separation from Yasser Arafat. Down the street from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is a little hair salon where I get my hair cut.
About the same portion of Americans describe themselves as being liberal (19 percent) as believe that the world will come to an end in their lifetimes (17 percent).
What books must every Jew read? What books are critical to informing your understanding of your faith, your culture, your people? With this issue, The Jewish Journal introduces a new weekly column: My Jewish Library.
Once again, despite predictions to the contrary, Jewish voters stuck with the Democrats. By a 3-1 margin, Jews backed Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) against President Bush.
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