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June 15, 2006
Acts of Faith
The Rev. Rick Warren, who inspired the evangelical church movement with \”The Purpose-Driven Life\” series and leads the Purpose Driven Network with 400,000 ministers and priests worldwide, will share his insights Friday, June 16, at what is the area\’s most popular Shabbat service, Friday Night Live at Westwood\’s Sinai Temple.
Cease-Fire Tottering
A 16-month cease-fire by several terrorist factions is faltering after members of a Palestinian family were killed in an explosion on a Gaza beach, providing the sternest test yet of the new security doctrine Israel forged after last year\’s Gaza withdrawal.
Jewish World Watch Eyes National Stage
As of now, the 3-year-old Darfur genocide is no longer unknown, but its horrors continue. Currently spreading from the Sudan to neighboring Chad, it has claimed 400,000 civilian dead and 4 million refugees, accompanied by mass rapes of women and starvation among children.
Windy City’s Best Leap Into the Bowl
Considered one of America\’s leading and most distinctive contemporary dance companies, Hubbard Street will display its trademark eclecticism when it debuts at the Hollywood Bowl on July 25.
Yo Tai Ren
We all know the Jewish world is casting about for ways to reverse a declining population and increased intermarriage. At the same time, we all know that China, the world\’s most populous country, is opening up economically, socially and even religiously. But with the exception of a tiny handful of academics and thinkers, most of our far-sighted Jewish professionals dismiss a China Plan as the same kind of pie-in-the-sky folly most Jewish leaders regarded say, a Jewish state in 1896.
God Is Gray
Heaven, paradise — choose a synonym: ecstasy, bliss, rapture. We use such words to describe experiences of perfect, supreme happiness, God on earth. The conditions on Sunday merited all such descriptions, especially that immaculately blue sky. Skies like that burn gloom away.
Scheduled Relaxation
As the years have gone by, I realize I\’d just as soon be alone than continue to go through cycles of head-spinning effort with someone in exchange for a couple of moments of grace. So I don\’t do that anymore. And though this kind of spiritual honesty has created an ease in my nervous system (and a welcome death to that horrible intimate uncertainty of giving myself where it\’s not appreciated), I have to stop and wonder, have I become overworked and underplayed?
These Dems Could Help Unlock Gridlock
With the Democratic primary victories of Debra Bowen for secretary of state, and Mike Feuer and Alex Padilla for State Legislature, Los Angeles — of all places — is playing a role in whether Sacramento becomes a less incendiary and gridlocked place.
My World Cup Runneth Over
Soccer\’s World Cup, played every four years, is being contested in Germany by 32 national teams from all parts of the world. One week of competition has gone by, three weeks to go before the championship game on July 9. The world is riveted. But not the American sports public, which has reacted with its usual collective yawn.
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