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December 2, 2009
Obituaries: December 4-10, 2009
Obituaries ranging between April 26 and October 17, 2009
Parashat Vayishlach (Genesis 32:4-36:43)
After their grandfather died, a friend and her brother sat with an attorney.
JFS Hosts Elderly Resource Fair, Honors Volunteer
For the first time, Jewish Family Service (JFS) and Westside M.A.P.S. (Marketing and Admissions Professionals for Seniors) teamed up to sponsor a resource fair for the elderly.
Winnick Hosts Bel Air Soireefor Harvard’s David Gergen
Financier and philanthropist Gary Winnick hosted a dinner at his Bel Air estate, Casa Encantada, on Nov. 19 honoring David Gergen, director of The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Weizmann Institute, Nobel Recipient, Feted
Rhona Bader hosted a brunch at her home on behalf of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. At the event, Marshall Levin,
L.A. Holocaust Museum Gets Large Turnout to Fundraiser
Despite a tense giving environment, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust reported a 50 percent increase in attendance at their second annual fundraising dinner, which took place at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Nov. 8.
From Jewish Housewife to Rock ‘n’ Roll Mogul
In 1958, a typical Jewish housewife from Passaic, N.J., felt she needed something more out of life, so she decided to enter the music business. Who could have known then that Florence Greenberg was destined to become a powerhouse in the record industry and the most influential woman in the burgeoning musical movement known as rock ‘n’ roll? Now her career is dramatized in a new play called, “Baby It’s You,” on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse, starring Meeghan Holaway.
British Film Gives ‘An Education’ in Anti-Semitism
We were only 15 minutes into the film and this was the second reference to the “Wandering Jew,” an age-old, European anti-Semitic stereotype. The British coming-of-age film, “An Education,” had gotten rave reviews, yet the more I watched, the more the character of David Goldman resembled the parasitical Jew of “Der Ewige Juden” (“The Eternal Jew”) — one of the infamous 1930s Nazi propaganda films I had studied in Peter Loewenberg’s class at UCLA.
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