The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles has announced a new plan to base its annual $1.6 million allocation to day schools on scholarship need, rather than on the number of students in each school.
For once, Jews, Christians and Muslims will be united — in anger at Homer Simpson, who believes he’s the Messiah in an upcoming episode of “The Simpsons.”
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles handed out cuts to all of the organizations it supports in the 2010 budget approved Feb. 18, a result of a challenging fundraising year and some changes by the new president, Jay Sanderson.
When Bryan Greenberg was a struggling actor a decade ago, he was caught up in the kind of New York hustle familiar to the aspiring fashionista he plays on HBO’s “How to Make It in America,” a gritty series about the American dream amid Wall Street disaster.
The Kirsch family and the Solomon family have long shared a set of haggadot that include a selection of additional texts that we read aloud at our Passover
seders. One of my favorite readings is an article by Yehuda Lev that first appeared in The Jewish Journal, an account of his trek across war-ravaged Europe in the company of Holocaust survivors heading toward Palestine in 1946. Another is a poem by Karl Shapiro titled, “The Alphabet” — “The letters of the Jews are dancing knives/That carve the heart of darkness seven ways.”
Passover food was never intended to cater to the palates of the Jews. Rather, through what could be described as edible suffering, the meal and subsequent week has always served as a gastronomic reminder of the pain once inflicted on our people.
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