The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) held its 16th annual Deborah Awards Dinner on May 12 at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, with Michaela Pereira, co-host of KTLA’s “Morning Show,” serving as emcee.
Many people change careers throughout their professional lives, though few do so as they approach their 80th birthday. No one must have told that to Ralph Montview.
The exasperating thing about parenting books is that most of us cherry-pick our own issues and then put the books on a shelf, never to be looked at again. With few exceptions (“The Blessing of a Skinned Knee” by Wendy Mogel and “Queen Bees and Wannabes” by Rosalind Wiseman), they are crashing bores to read.
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has joined a lawsuit to force the Norton Simon Museum to return two 500-year-old paintings to the heir of a Dutch Jewish art dealer.
Connecting to Jewish life on U.S. college campuses will be the focus of a panel discussion for graduating high school seniors and their parents. Rabbi Nicole Guzik of Sinai Temple in Westwood will moderate a panel of current Jewish college students and recent graduates on June 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the University of UCLA Hillel office.
The Hebrew Charter School Center (HCSC), a national organization based in New York, is giving away $950,000 to groups establishing and growing state-funded dual-language charter schools.
Despite a challenge from homeowners, the Oak Park Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) voted on April 27 to recommend changes to Chabad of Oak Park’s Conditional Use Permit that could allow the Orthodox congregation to expand its occupancy rate and activities.
Veggie tamales are hot at the new Wellington Square Certified Farmers Market, and spice has nothing to do with it. The new market is vegetarian, and the usual fare filled with pork, chicken and beef are nowhere to be found. What you will discover are the hot-selling varieties filled with roasted green chilies, sweet corn and goat cheese.
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