I can’t be the badly dressed mom at pickup time
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from day care.
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April 4, 2012
As Milken School prepares for independence, four administrators plan to depart
Jonah Lowenfeld
April 4, 2012
One year after the plan was first announced, the boards of Milken Community High School and Stephen S. Wise Temple have finalized the terms of the agreement that will sever the ties between the 750-student middle and high school and the large Reform synagogue that established it more than 20 years ago.
Q&A: Making a book out of making himself a man
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Joel Stein throws himself into things. I know this personally, because he threw himself into making me eggplant parmesan the week my son was born. He and his lovely wife delivered it personally, with bread and wine, braving the dangers and dog barks of Koreatown to feed two hungry, tired new parents.
A New Kosher Market to Serve the Old Club
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
In time for Passover, in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, the Fairfax District’s Western Kosher market has opened a second location in the former site of the Kosher Club on Pico Boulevard. “This is about four times the size of our other store,” new owner David Kagan said. “We have brought in new shelving, refrigerator cabinets and lighting. We’ve repainted and polished the floor,” he added, speaking of the renovations to the former store that had closed in December 2011.
Opinion: Tamara doesn’t want to date a Republican!
Dennis Prager
April 4, 2012
Two weeks ago, Jewish Journal blogger Tamara Shayne Kagel wrote a piece titled, “I Don’t Want to Date a Republican!”
Home movies reveal cultural history of SoCal Jews
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
Home movies have long played an important role in the lives of American Jews. Backyard barbecues, baby namings, bar mitzvahs — few are the events that haven’t been captured on film by the Jewish parent or grandparent.
‘Baseball Fantography’ hits It out of the park
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2012
The snapshot of famed circus clown Emmett Kelly offers a window into the Dodgers’ more colorful past. The picture of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey icon was taken at Ebbets Field during his brief, and largely forgotten, stint as the team’s mascot in Brooklyn. Kelly — clad in a tattered suit, wearing a hat that had seen better days and holding a head of lettuce that would serve as lunch — looks longingly into a camera near the third-base dugout. In the background are the mostly filled, first-base seats stacked above each other in a decrepit but beloved ballpark that would be torn down just a few years later.
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