Ready To Succeed LA puts foster youth on fast track
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July 27, 2016
This summer, a large portion of about 80,000 college students will not return to their childhood homes or to their biological families.
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‘Kreplach Western’ screening a new frontier for Boyle Heights lending library
Eitan Arom
July 27, 2016
Libros Schmibros is, according to David Kipen, its founder, “the Yiddish-Spanish joke that got out of hand.”
The complex, secret path to becoming an Orthodox Jew
Eitan Arom
July 27, 2016
Nicole, the American woman at the center of a crisis of faith in Israel’s highest religious authority, is now a Jew twice over.
Firm’s lawyers know how splitting couples feel
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July 27, 2016
Jamie Kurtz fell in love when she was 29 years old. But by the time the San Fernando Valley native was 30, she was already divorced.
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Virginia Isaad
July 27, 2016
Jerusalem-based writer Avigail Rosenberg — who goes by her pen name — had been divorced for nearly nine years when her book “Healing From the Break: Stories, Guidance, and Inspiration for Anyone Touched by Divorce” was published last year.
Bridging Jewish Cultures’ consultants work for unity amid diversity
Kylie Ora Lobell
July 27, 2016
Los Angeles has become a melting pot of world Jewry — the local mix includes more than a sprinkling of Sephardim, Ashkenazim, Israelis, Persians and Russians.
Where are the Mexican rapists?
Danielle Berrin
July 27, 2016
After two weeks of traveling through Mexico, I feel a duty to report that I did not encounter a single rapist.\n\n
Hebrew word of the week: Vegetarians / TsimHonim
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July 27, 2016
Fast-growing trends in America and Europe, such as becoming tsimHonim “vegetarians” or Tiv’ıonim “vegans” (“naturalists”), are adopted very quickly in Israel, and some seem to have a basis in Judaism.
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