Your child comes home and says she wants to be a doctor someday. Your spouse or serious beau tells you he or she dreams of being something greater. And you douse the dream with a comment: \”You aren\’t smart enough,\” \”You don\’t have the skills needed to do that\” or \”No one will take you seriously.\”
Frankie Muniz, star of the TV show, \”Malcolm in the Middle,\” had little idea what he was making as he glued colored cotton balls and beads onto a metallic container with a slot on top.
Following the public criticism, 14 commissioners voted last Friday against adopting the Oxford materials, and one commissioner abstained. Their rejection came as a surprise, because a special review committee had recommended its adoption to the commission.
Four years ago, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles funded the joint project between Centinela and two L.A.-based Jewish groups, the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) and Beit T\’Shuvah, a Jewish recovery program.
The hope of the organizers is that the games foster a sense of Jewish unity, awareness and pride among the athletes from around the world. In that spirit, this year\’s games were the first to feature delegations from China, Macedonia and Grenada.
For more than 25 years, Shofet worked alongside his father, Hacham Yedidia Shofet, the community\’s longtime spiritual leader, who died last summer.
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