Forty years ago, my wife, Marcia, and I attended a service at Valley Beth Shalom and were stunned by Rabbi Harold Schulweis’ intellectual passion, knowledge and remarkable down-to-earth sense of humor (“Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis: ‘Rabbi of Rabbis’ and World-Renowned Jewish Leader,” Jan. 2).
Did you know Gene Kelly spoke Yiddish and was a Shabbos goy?
We begin the story of the Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery to freedom not with a tale of heroism and miracles, but with a list of names.
Well-known U.S. criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz has vowed to seek the disbarment of two lawyers representing a woman who has accused him of sexually abusing her when she was underage. But legal experts said he faces an uphill battle.
A car that caught fire outside a synagogue near the site of the deadly attack on the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine was not related to the attack, the mayor of a Paris suburb said.
Marsha Allen died Dec. 19 at 71. Survived by husband Robert “Bob”; sons David (Victoria), Joshua (Amy); daughter Staci Hammarquist; 8 grandchildren; sister Serna Hahn. Mount Sinai
Esther Lowy, founding dean of Touro College Los Angeles, died Dec. 19 at the age of 66, of cancer, according to her husband, Rudolph.\n
Claire (Cookie) Venze died on Dec. 20 in Massachusetts.
Gabriella Karin (then Foldes) tightly clasped her Uncle Sandor’s waist as she traveled on the back of his bicycle along the back roads of Slovakia from Malzenice to Bratislava, a 40-mile journey.
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