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March 12, 2009
Scene & Heard: Global Festival Honors Schulweis, JVS Recognizes Four
Dr. Michael Kamiel, a Culver City endocrinologist, is making every pre-teen girl in town jealous: the good doctor ran into Miley Cyrus during her “Miles to Go” book signing on Mar. 7 at the Grove and snagged this lucky snapshot with the tween superstar.\n\n
Surviving Madoff
On Tuesday came word that Bernard Madoff, accused of running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, would plead guilty to charges that would result in a life sentence.
Purim Spoof, Jacob and Esau, Chasidic Movements, Wagner Cover, Origins of Alphabet
I was not happy when I saw your Purim cover with Bernard Madoff and the octomom. I am willing to laugh at many things, but not this time. Madoff has become the poster boy of the new Fagin. He has brought the old canards of anti-Semitism back to Page 1 and also has hurt many, many Jews and Jewish organizations, deeply.
Catcher of Lost Souls
“How are we going to be as dedicated as these monsters?” was the line in the film that stuck with me. I was in a cramped synagogue, a few blocks from my house, where a standing room-only crowd had come to honor a Jew who had passed away in Jerusalem 30 days earlier.\n
Donation of Organs Has Support of Most Rabbis
It was a decision based on a widespread misunderstanding in the Jewish community, locally and nationally. A young boy not yet 10 years old lay brain dead in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a severe head injury in an accident. The attending physician explained to the parents that their son was brain dead.\n
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