Children can receive free immunizations at three locations in the Jewish community next week as part of a Childhood Immunization Campaign launched by Bikur Cholim Jewish Healthcare Foundation in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Kids who sport a tangle of Silly Bandz on their arms can now do so with some ethnic pride. At least three companies are marketing Jewish versions of the silicon rubber-band bracelets.
I drive a car that doesn’t use gasoline. It’s not an exotic $120,000 wonder. It’s a Honda Civic GX that runs on compressed natural gas (CNG) and is available at your local Honda dealer. I’ve owned fancier and more expensive cars, but I’ve never had a car so aligned with my sense of Jewish ethics.
Few issues have generated as much heat in the Jewish world this year as the Rotem bill, which is now on hold pending furtherreview. Presumably, a key goal of the bill was to make it easier for the hundreds of thousands of Russians in Israel, who are not halachically Jewish, to convert to Judaism. There is sharp disagreement among critics of the bill over whether it would, in fact, accomplish that goal.
One day last spring, Jill Schary-Robinson Shaw was walking through a quiet, darkened corridor in the long-term care unit at The Motion Picture Home, the iconic Woodland Hills nursing home for entertainment industry veterans and their families. Hardly anyone was around — lights were dim, residents alone in their rooms — as Schary-Robinson Shaw, the daughter of Isadore “Dore” Schary, who ran MGM in the 1950s, wheeled her husband, Stuart Shaw, a resident of the home, around his desolate indoor neighborhood.
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