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April 13, 2010
Embody the Mitzvah Through Manners
Knowing the proper way to conduct oneself will not only help the student feel more confident and relaxed, it will also help put family members and other guests at ease.\n
Optimism, Concern Among Jewish Donors
As more than 200 major funders of Jewish nonprofits gathered in Phoenix this week, most of the signs of the economic carnage of the past 18 months appeared to be waning.
USC Conference Spotlights Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education hosted its first International Digital Access, Outreach and Research Conference, highlighting the foundation’s visual history archive, which contains 52,000 video interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses from 56 countries.
Bibi’s Next Move
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Mahmoud Abbas “bamboozled” Benjamin Netanyahu by playing hard to get and refusing to come to the\npeace table. Abbas’ move precipitated an unfortunate tug of war between the United States and Israel, as the new Obama administration, eager to win favor with the Arab world, pressed Israel for more and more concessions to get the talks going.
AJC Fetes Wayne Barsky
American Jewish Committee (AJC) feted litigator Wayne Barsky, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, with the 30th annual Learned Hand Award on March 17. Barsky is considered a leading figure in intellectual property law, and the dinner attracted many of Los Angeles’ top attorneys, judges and community leaders, including Barsky’s longtime partner and friend, Scott Edelman, who presented him with the award.
PBS Features Schools’ Growing Eco Awareness
At a Harvard University dormitory, a banner proclaims, “Green Is the New Crimson.”
Letters to the Editor: Prager, Tea Party Politics, Yom Hashoah
As a physician of 45 years, who has followed the calling of the profession devoted to patient care, I must start the healing process for Dennis Prager (“A Response to a Reader,” April 9). The only way to ensure the health care needs of the public is to adopt a single-payer system. By removing the health insurance companies from the monstrous system they have created and transferring their massive funding to a public utility, all of us would be guaranteed the care we deserve and already pay for without new taxes. Profits, with their moral and ethical shortcomings, would be removed from the table and administrative expenses cut to 5 percent.
Picks and Clicks: April 17-23, 2010
A twin exhibition boasts the Jew-centric work of artists Peter Krasnow, a Russian immigrant painter, sculptor and lithographer, and watercolor painter Bonnie Stone. Both artists enliven traditional Jewish subjects with contemporary sensibilities. “Gefilte Sushi” highlights Stone’s “Balabustahs” series, and Krasnow’s “Idiosyncrasies” offers abstractions of Noah, mikvehs and more. Sat. 2-5 p.m. Free. Tobey C. Moss Gallery, 7321 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 933-5523. tobeycmossgallery.com.
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