The final act of Hertzberg-for-Mayor played out last week, with Bob Hertzberg endorsing challenger Antonio Villaraigosa. And although there was some unexpected drama, the endorsement itself proved anticlimactic: Villaraigosa already had surged to a comfortable double-digit lead in two polls.
In the promising pilot — which one critic called \”\’Frasier\’ with boobs\” — Elon Gold proved a hilarious comic foil for the vacuous yet surprisingly insightful Pamela Anderson.
I can just imagine my Orthodox grandparents worrying about making the seder come alive for their grandchildren.
Ten days ago, I was in the Al Serif Camp in Darfur, Sudan, with Fatima, the girl you see in the photograph. She lives there with 15,000 other refugees.
Despite the church\’s healing legacy to the Jewish people, and the strong moral progressive stands of John Paul II in recent years, the church\’s record is mixed and troubling in other ways.
Two weeks ago, I walked in early for a dinner meeting at Sprazzo, a small Italian restaurant on Westwood Boulevard.
In response to the three clerics who made the front page of The New York Times, in just one week several hundred clergy, mostly from the United States, signed on to a letter of support for WorldPride in Jerusalem, saying, among other things, that \”Jerusalem, a living, holy city, a pilgrimage site for people of many faiths and many beliefs, increases in holiness when all are welcome within her walls.\”
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