Who would have guessed that a 15-year-old boy born and raised in West Los Angeles would befriend a 49-year-old elephant named Yom who lives in a conservation reserve hidden deep in the jungles of Lampang in Northern Thailand?
If you\’re heading down Mexico way, all the way down to Oaxaca, you should know about a bed and breakfast there called Casa Machaya. The name is a sly Jewish reference, a wink at potential clients for the B & B: That\’s right, it\’s not meant to be the Spanish \”ch,\” as in \”change,\” but a guttural \”ch,\” as in mechaya, Yiddish for \”joy.\”
In 2002, Leonard Nimoy, now 76, said he was retiring from acting to focus on photography. But in May 2009, he\’ll return to the silver screen as the pointy-eared pop culture icon who has been his alter ego since \”Star Trek\” debuted on television in 1966.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles had long been led by a mammoth and, some would say, symbolic board of directors. But last week the 133-member board voted nearly unanimously to dissolve itself and reconstitute about 65 percent lighter.\n
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