Erika Levy and Alie Kussin-Shoptaw, seniors at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, easily spotted in their bright orange volunteer vests, stood by the escalators at the Los Angeles Convention Center, greeting arriving United Jewish Communities General Assembly (GA) attendees and directing them to meeting rooms, halls and hospitality suites.
It was a night to acknowledge accomplished women Nov. 1, when 300 people celebrated the Anti-Defamation League\’s (ADL) 12th annual Deborah Awards. This year\’s honorees, Louise Bryson of
\”Something happens,\” I was told across the \”first timers\” table Nov. 2 at BJ\’s Restaurant in Woodland Hills. \”When these women get together. I can\’t explain it, but something happens.\”
You walk into an elegant, minimalist little building on the corner of Pico and Doheny in the heart of the hood. It\’s Shabbat, and you\’ve come to pray.
One day at lunch with a group of reporters and editors, Dave Laventhol, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was musing that journalists had become elitist,
separated from their communities, maybe even too educated.
Whenever I find myself among large groups of Jews, I have to ask myself this question: How much of the Kool-Aid should I drink?
Some women would argue that your expectations should go down the longer you are single. I say a deal breaker is a deal breaker, and the fact that you have turned 28
for several years in a row doesn\’t mean you should dismiss core things you want in a guy.
Of all the regular columns in The Jewish Journal, I enjoy the Singles column the most. You know, the one typically written by a 30-something still out there, searching for
Mr. or Ms. Right.
The annual summit meeting of North American Jewish leaders climaxed Tuesday with an affirmation by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that \”Israel will not shy away from challenging Iran\’s development of nuclear weapons.\”
On Monday, the three heads of the leading Jewish seminaries tackled this question, as well as the challenges of teaching a new generation of Jews in an hourlong plenary session that stepped outside the overriding focus on Israel at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly.
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