When I first met J Keith, I found his personality really grating. A friend brought him to a softball game my wife and I used to organize every Sunday. He was competitive and started to take over the game. I’m not competitive. I’m not a huge fan of sports. But I loved our low-key softball games. And this guy was f—ing them up.\n
Although he is not widely known in the United States, the French-Jewish composer, lyricist, musician and singer Serge Gainsbourg is a legend in his native country.
In its first year of existence, the seventh- and eighth-graders at the new charter school Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Sciences in Santa Clarita scored better on California standardized tests than any other public middle-schoolers in the area.
At the beginning of the JCC Maccabi Games boys’ soccer tournament in Israel, Westside JCC co-head coach Neil Sadhu gave striker Ari Spitzer three words of advice: power, precision and composure.
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