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May 27, 2009
Health Care Is Broken, But How Do You Fix It?
As the march toward health care reform takes place nationally, the debate over what form it should take is heating up on the local level, as well. Many California doctors believe the best plan to cover the uninsured is laid out in a bill slowly gathering momentum in the California State Senate: a government-financed health system backers call “Medicare for all.”
Still Want Your Kid to Be a Doctor?
Five years as a yoga instructor gave Priel Schmalbach an intuitive sense of others’ well-being and a desire to heal the medical ailments that lay beyond yoga’s reach. So the Miami native enrolled in UC Irvine’s School of Medicine as an MD/PhD student, pursuing a career as a family practitioner.
Outrage Over Cremation Ad, Courageous Activist
\”There is no greater desecration of a Jewish neshama (soul) than cremation, and there is no greater mitzvah than a kosher burial.\”
Miracle on Third Street
This is the time of year, during the holiday of Shavuot, when Jews celebrate receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. But for a small tribe of Jews in West Hollywood, Shavuot will also be a time to pray for a last-minute miracle that will save their beloved 55-year-old shul, Mishkan Israel, from disappearing.
California on the Edge: It’s Leadership Time
We all know our state is in fiscal trouble. Local governments, school districts, universities, service providers to the needy and disabled are all bracing for an all-out assault from Sacramento.
The Crucible of UC Irvine
Universities, like religions, are often judged not by what they preach but by what they tolerate.
Love Endures
At this season of change, as spring gives way to summer, as farmers across the world harvest their crops, Jews end the season of counting the Omer and prepare to receive the Torah anew, celebrating the cycles of life — and its fragility.
L.A. Torah Scribe Has Quill, Will Travel
In 2001, Jewish sofer (scribe) Ron Sieger served as a hand double for the actor playing a scribe on “The Sacred Scroll” episode of the CBS drama, “Touched By an Angel.” He left his studio in Los Angeles for a few days and headed off to the Utah set to serve as a scribe consultant and to tutor actress Valerie Bertinelli in Hebrew.
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