Hope for injured IDF veterans
Ryan Torok
November 28, 2012
An officer in the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Paratrooper Brigade, Arale Wattenstein was injured during a 2005 operation in the West Bank.
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November 28, 2012
Despite mounting criticism, Western Wall remains in haredi Orthodox hands
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
Sitting in his office 20 feet above the Western Wall Plaza, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz is unperturbed by the simmering tensions below.
Bet Tzedek moves east
Ryan Torok
November 28, 2012
Ever since Bet Tzedek’s inception in 1974, the free legal-services firm has mostly been housed in the heavily Jewish Fairfax district, with additional offices in the San Fernando Valley and the Mid-Wilshire area.
The defendant: Moses
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
Add another feather to Erwin Chemerinsky’s cap. On Nov. 18, the great legal mind — founding dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law and former commentator for the O.J. Simpson trial — got Moses off on two counts: murder and flight to avoid prosecution.
My Single Peeps: Kristina L.
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
Most Jewish parents don’t name their child Kristina, but Ukraine — when it was still the former Soviet Union — was very secular. “So my parents just gave me what was the cool, European name of the moment, not wanting to give me some very traditional and typical Russian name like Tanya or Svetlana.”
Nominate someone you know to be part of the Jewish Journal’s annual Mensch issue!
JewishJournal.com
November 28, 2012
If you know someone in the Los Angeles area whose great work on behalf of others goes unsung or undersung, who doesn\’t get paid for what he or she does (or doesn\’t get paid near enough), whose life is the embodiment of the values of menschlikeit, tsedaka and gmilut hassidim
“The Polish Boxer” explores the experience of Auschwitz-survivor
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
Several factors drew me to Eduardo Halfon’s “The Polish Boxer,” translated by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead and Anne McLean (Bellevue Literary Press: $14.95), including its billing (in the industry bible Publishers Weekly and elsewhere) as a semi-autobiographical novel in which the 40-ish author explores the experience of his Auschwitz-survivor grandfather.
Flexibility is key to Israeli Chamber Project
Jewish Journal
November 28, 2012
It takes more than a lineup substitution — even a major lineup substitution — to rattle the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP). The circumstances that will bring the company — which offers a rotating roster of musicians from Israel and elsewhere — to make its Southland debut on Nov. 30 in a Da Camera Society concert at the Doheny Mansion were fortuitous, if not a bit tumultuous. How about two of the three originally scheduled musicians bowing out?
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