On the evening of Dec. 2, a small group of elderly men and women, some with their children and grandchildren, will gather at a Burbank mall to mark the 75th anniversary of a heartbreaking, yet uplifting, episode of the Nazi era, known as the Kindertransport (in English, Children’s Transport).
It was a wager you couldn’t lose. When the Cleveland Browns played the Kansas City Chiefs on Oct. 27, you could have bet that the winning football team would include a Jewish offensive lineman named Schwartz who grew up in the seaside Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Last Sunday, my job was to make stuffing for 400 people. I said I’d do it because there’s a part of me that prefers to forget that it’s been 25 years since I was a caterer, and I assumed it would be as easy now as it was then.
Complete with a Jewfro and black-rimmed hipster glasses, Israeli rocker Yermi Kaplan leapt off the stage and into a sea of 30-somethings who fist-pumped and sang along in Hebrew to edgy love ballads.\n
“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts; the entire earth is filled with his glory” (Isaiah 6:30). If Isaiah is correct, with every step we take, with every breath we draw, we cannot help but encounter God’s glory. And yet who among us is constantly aware of this fact, this daily miracle?
At Shalhevet High School, the classrooms seem a bit large, the layout a bit odd, and the cafeteria and gym … well, there is no cafeteria or gym.
Major powers resumed talks on Wednesday on a preliminary agreement to curb Iran\’s nuclear program with the United States warning it would be \”very hard\” to clinch a breakthrough deal this week and Tehran flagging \”red lines.\”
Joel Pressman, a cantor and longtime performing arts teacher at Beverly Hills High School, died on Nov. 18. He was 63.
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