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December 23, 2004
Curb Your Verbosity
Wolpe\’s goal with this book and with his columns is to achieve the most coveted accolade of all newspaper columnists — to have his column posted on someone\’s refrigerator.
African Shoah Lives in ‘Hotel Rwanda’
When British actress Sophie Okonedo portrayed the wife of a hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 people during Rwanda\’s 1994 genocide, she worked with 10,000 extras — including Rwandan refugees living in Johannesburg.
See Change
The UJ has been around since 1947. My office window in Koreatown overlooks the block of Ardmore Avenue where it was originally housed. The university followed the Jewish community west in 1979, settling in to the expansive Familian campus, where it fulfills a unique but hardly problem-free niche in a unique Jewish community.
Insta-Love
We had already been together for seven months. Seven perfect months, untouched by reality of modern life. For me, at least. That was until I promised to buy the new mattress he wanted, thinking it would be a good investment for our future. But this led to his chilling reply: \”Honey, I don\’t have a crystal ball into our future.\”
A Holiday Redemption
I woke up Christmas Day morning with no tree, toys or eggnog, and I understood how Jewish children could feel left out on Christmas mornings as non-Jewish neighbor kids ride new bikes and try out other presents. Like Jewish kids, I had no gifts that morning.
Reach Out and Touch Faith
When Elizabeth Cobrin goes to Israel this winter break with Birthright Israel, she and her friends have devised a plan to find each other when participants in all the different Birthright trips get together.
Ending the Post-Bar Mitzvah Exodus
On a recent gloomy Sunday afternoon in L.A. Family Housing\’s recreation room, 13-year-old Julia Harreschou laughs with 5-year-old Lara as they take turns drawing on a Magna Doodle.
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