\”A funny thing happens when you become ill. Even though you\’re the person who\’s sick, you have to be a caregiverin a way. You can\’t just dump information on people.\”
Growing up an observant Jew in the small city of Palm Springs with a Jewish minority was sometimes difficult, but I have always been proud of my Jewish heritage, of who I was and of what I believe.
If you ask almost any Jew \”What does a Jewish Princess make for dinner?\” the answer would probably be the punchline of an old joke: \”reservations.\” Ask Georgie Tarn and Tracey Fine, however, and they\’ll respond with one of their unique recipes, such as Bloody Mary Borscht.
What prompted Agnon, a master of original writing, to create an anthology of rabbinic texts relating to Shavuot? As an author with a deep connection to his religious roots, Agnon related to the experience of Shavuot, a celebration of the centrality of books in Judaism.
\”My sense is that people gathering in synagogue for all or part of the night is expanding,\” said Rabbi Mark Diamond, executive vice president of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California. \”A lot of great learning takes place in the Los Angeles Jewish community on Shavuot.\”
The Maccabees\’ legendary oil may have burned for eight days and nights, but at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., the low-wattage bulb in the ner tamid has lasted more than a century, ever since the building was first electrified in the 1880s.
A New York native, Robert Smigel said he never really planned to become a writer. After failing as a pre-dental student, Smigel moved on to writing and performing improv in Chicago for the Players Workshop of The Second City, where he met fellow \”SNL\” writers Conan O\’Brien and Bob Odenkirk.
Ehud Olmert drew big applause at the AIPAC annual policy conference with his tough talk on Iran, but his calls for peace talks with Syria and the Palestinians fell flat. Some applauded the Israeli prime minister for making such a strong speech with his political future in jeopardy.\n\n
The notes are short, direct and never signed. They come from all over Los Angeles, from the South Los Angeles tenements to the San Fernando Valley suburbs. Their authors differ in age, ethnicity and religion, but have at least one thing in common: They all live with HIV/AIDS.
Their gratitude is directed at Project Chicken Soup, an L.A.-based nonprofit whose volunteers gather twice a month to cook nutritious, kosher meals and deliver them, free of charge, to the doors of clients across the city.
While HIV can pose health problems at any age, there is additional risk of having the virus as an older person. People 50 and older have less vigorous immune systems, and studies report that a majority of older adults have at least one or more chronic, age-related condition such as diabetes, arthritis or heart disease
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