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February 25, 2010
Clippers in Calabasas, Trees All Over
L.A. Clippers star Baron Davis and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast attended a Feb. 8 rally at Calabasas High School to accept $115,000 from Jewish World Watch (JWW) — on behalf of student activists — which will fund two schools for Darfuri refugees. New Community Jewish High School, Heschel West and Shalom Institute were among those celebrating the New Year for Trees (Tu b’Shevat), and artist Rick Hyman helped students explore family trees through paintings based on family photos and oral histories for “An Uncommon Journey to Diversity,” an exhibition at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus’ Finegood Art Gallery. Producer Marc Platt (“Legally Blonde”) delivered the keynote at the Ruby & Lion of Judah luncheon, which drew more than 350 women. And Congregation Or Ami, known for its aid to children in foster care, honored leaders of its ChildSpree, Prom Prep, Mitzvah Day, Shoes That Fit and Adopt a Child-Abuse Caseworker projects.
Recipes: Passover prep, unbound
Food plays an important role during Passover — from the six symbolic items on the seder plate to those foods avoided during the eight-day holiday, like chametz (leavened grains) and kitniyot (legumes). But the dinner that follows the seder on the first two nights, when family and friends gather to retell the story of the Jews’ exodus from slavery to freedom, can leave a host slaving away in the kitchen.
Freedom starts with personal salvation
Logan was a small Jewish neighborhood in North Philly. That’s were I was born, smack in the middle of the last century.
Tragedies
The year started tragically. When the 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, it looked as if fate finally had humanity on the ropes. The scale of devastation scoured our hearts. Children crushed by their own classrooms, bodies heaped onto the backs of trucks and ferried out to mass graves. When the president of Haiti said it would take three years just to clear the debris, I wondered how, in an age when attention is measured in nano-spans, the people of Haiti would ever get the help they need.
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