Write Your Best Speech for the Big Day
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2009
If you were the greatest, most eloquent writer in the world, how would you tackle the job of summarizing your feelings for your child?
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June 25, 2009
How to Succeed in B’nai Mitzvah Without Really Trying!
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2009
So you want to have a bar or bat mitzvah … good. Here are a few tips on how to make it through the year leading up to the big day.
B’nai Mitzvah Bind Our Tradition of God, Torah, Israel
Rabbi David Wolpe
June 25, 2009
Who believes that the 13-year-old standing before the congregation is really a man or woman?
Calendar Picks and Clicks June 27–July 3, 2009
Dikla Kadosh
June 25, 2009
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Katrina Youth Take Center Stage to Heal in Festival Doc
Naomi Pfefferman
June 25, 2009
Hilla Medalia was at an impasse with her documentary, “To Die in Jerusalem,” when she decided to accompany Broadway theater veteran James Lecesne to New Orleans, with her camera in tow.
Two Generations of ReitmansProduce Laughs
Danielle Berrin
June 25, 2009
Growing up in Ivan Reitman’s shadow couldn’t have been easy. With hits like “Animal House,” “Ghostbusters” and “Stripes,” Ivan produced and/or directed some of the most iconic Hollywood comedies of the past three decades.
‘Little Camp,’ Big Impact
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2009
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a somber visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He viewed the crematory ovens, the barbed-wire fences, the barracks, the guard towers.
Party Like a (Bar Mitzvah) Rock Star
Karla S. Blume
June 25, 2009
Most parents are willing to do anything to make their kids’ dream bar or bat mitzvah celebration come true, even if it means fulfilling rock-star ambitions — be they genuine or virtual.
Iranian Jews Join Los Angeles Protests
Karmel Melamed
June 25, 2009
As the violent protests against the outcome of Iran’s June 12 election escalated in their former homeland last week, countless local Iranian Jews have been among the thousands of Southern California Iranian Americans attending rallies at the Federal Building in Westwood.
Early Expatriates Got the Cold Shoulder
Dikla Kadosh
June 25, 2009
The official policy of turning a cold shoulder to the Israeli expatriate population is well documented. Anna Schwarz, a graduate of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, wrote her 2009 master’s thesis on Israelis living in Los Angeles, in which she discussed at length the Jewish American establishment’s reaction to Israeli immigrants in the 1970s and thereafter.
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