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September 5, 2012

I am the woman who used to annoy me

Jewish Journal September 5, 2012

To all the elderly women who have tried my patience over the years: Retribution is yours for the asking, for as you have known all along, I am becoming you. I’ve stood behind you in the supermarket line, tapping my foot and pretending to be absorbed in the details of Jennifer Aniston’s love life splayed across the magazine covers, but really I was a roiling tsunami of frustration that could boil over at any moment.

Shabbat without religion

David Suissa September 5, 2012

How do you talk about Judaism in a way that’s not too “Jewish”? How do you convey Jewish ideas to Jews who might get turned off by religious ideas? Is it possible, in other words, to talk about the Jewish religion in a nonreligious way?

L.A. Teens Win More Than 70 Medals at Maccabi Games

Jewish Journal September 5, 2012

Team Westside’s luggage was a little heavier on its return flight from the Maccabi Games in Houston last month. Athletes won a combined total of 18 medals in three sports at the annual competition, which took place Aug. 5-10.

Report, resolution reignite campus anti-Semitism issue

Jonah Lowenfeld September 5, 2012

Just weeks before students are scheduled to return to University of California campuses for the start of fall classes, a UC report issued in July about the atmosphere facing Jewish students, along with a recent resolution regarding anti-Semitism passed by the California Assembly, have launched another round of debate over whether some kinds of anti-Israel speech should be prohibited on campuses.

Everything is easier than doing good

Dennis Prager September 5, 2012

Some thoughts for Rosh Hashanah: If we took a vote on what trait we human beings most value, goodness would undoubtedly win. Certainly goodness is the trait that we most want everyone else to possess. But if we say we value goodness above everything else — and surely Judaism does — why aren\’t there more good people? A big reason is that it is easier to value other things — including, and especially, positive things — more than goodness. So it\’s much easier to be just about anything rather than good. It’s easier to be religious than to be good.

Educators’ conference focuses on Holocaust

Ryan Torok September 5, 2012

Educators from Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and San Luis Obispo participated in a weeklong professional development workshop on Aug. 6-10 on Holocaust education at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB).

A place for special-needs children to grow

Julie Gruenbaum Fax September 5, 2012

Tani Lazaroff had some news to share with his mother a few months ago. “Chanie, do you know what I have?” the 10-year-old asked his mother, addressing her, as he usually does, by her first name. “I have a neshama. Did you know that I have a neshama?”

You can go home again

Gina Nahai September 5, 2012

On Fridays, the children would line up, all glittery pink shoes and Ninja Turtle T-shirts, and hike up a steep driveway from the preschool yard to the temple sanctuary. They walked single file or in pairs, one teacher in the lead and another bringing up the rear, each holding one end of a rope. The kids, 3 and 4 years old, gripped the length of the rope with their little hands stained with watercolor paint and Play-Doh dye. You could hear them singing Shabbat songs as they walked, and later, as they poured into the aisles and climbed onto the chairs in the temple and tried to sit still for a whole 20 minutes. By noon, when parents went to take them home, they were spent and tousled, excited but worn out by the morning\’s exploits. In their backpacks, they carried small challahs they had baked for that evening\’s dinner.

The absence of Zev

David A. Lehrer September 5, 2012

The news is bittersweet. On the one hand a public servant who has dedicated nearly forty years of his life to the Los Angeles community will be unburdened from the demands of a public that wants him virtually every day and night of the week (whether it’s this group’s board meeting or that neighborhood council or the major donor who would like to “show him off” to friends), Zev Yaroslavsky has led a career of rarely saying no to his constituents. On the other hand, Los Angeles will be losing the chance to elect the one potential mayoral candidate that might have set our fiscal house in order.

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