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August 3, 2006
The Roots of an Israel Marathon
Some people raise money for Israel, other people visit Israel, and still others look for a unique way to support the country, like Eat4Israel. Now a new group of local athletes wants to Run for Israel, in Israel. A marathon, to be precise. \”Roots Marathon\” is starting their training program this summer, inviting people of different faiths to run the 30th Tiberias Marathon or 10k in Northern Israel next winter.\n
7 Days in the Arts
Events this week: National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles Thrift Stores launch new flagship store; Downtown Center Business Improvement District hosts its second annual Walk-In Movie Series; \”Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby\” opens; Santa Monica Drive-In at the Pier benefits the Cancer Relief Fund; \”Curtains!\” makes it to the stage at the Ahmanson; Woody Allen\’s \”Scoop\” features Scarlett Johansson; Nevenka Eastern European Folk Ensemble performs at Club Tropical.
Former Actor Takes Rabbi Role at Motion Picture Home
Before Arthur Rosenberg became a rabbi he played one on TV. He starred as an Orthodox rabbi on \”Chicago Hope\” and as a Reform rabbi on \”The District,\” in addition to playing doctors, lawyers and police chiefs on shows like \”Knots Landing,\” \”Beverly Hills, 90210\” and \”The X-Files.\” But now Rosenberg, 60, has moved on to a new role — the first staff rabbi hired by the Motion Picture and Television Fund\’s Wasserman Campus in its 58-year history.
A Hole In One for a Good Cause
Bram Goldsmith, chair of City National Corporation, and his wife, Elaine, long-time supporter of the arts, donated $5 million to the future Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, with the result that a 500-seat theater will become the Goldsmith Theater.
A 10-Step Guide to Helping Israel
As the conflict in Israel continues, Jewish groups are focusing their efforts — financial, spiritual, intellectual, personal and practical — on ways to help Israel. The following list — by no means comprehensive — includes 10 things you can do to help Israel.
Is Lebanon Israel’s Iraq?
How is Israel\’s security served by the creation of a failed state on its northern border? This is the question that has fallen like a dark shadow across the landscape of stunningly unanimous Israeli, Jewish, and American support for Israel\’s ongoing attack on Lebanon. Has Israel truly attacked Lebanon, or has it merely attacked Hezbollah as a terrorist organization operating from within Lebanon? On July 23, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seemed to answer that question for the benefit of his cabinet: \”We have no war with the Lebanese people, and we have no intention to harm their quality of life.\”
Great Honors for Graff
Waiters could barely navigate their way through the schmoozing, kvelling crowd packed into Sephardic Temple for the Bureau of Jewish Education\’s (BJE) June dinner honoring its executive director, Gil Graff.
Falash Mura Wait and Hope
Most of the more than 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left in Ethiopia today are Falash Mura, people whose families were converted to Christianity about 100 years ago, but who still identify as Jews. The Israeli government for years has been wavering on whether they are real Jews and should be brought to Israel, even though most have family there. Today there are about 85,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel, including about 20,000 who were born there.
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