Against the Stream
Gaby Wenig
July 25, 2002
It\’s 10 a.m. on Shabbat at The Kabbalah Centre on Robertson Boulevard and the crowds are starting to converge in anticipation of the Torah reading.
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Ray of Hope
Michael Aushenker
January 17, 2002
What will become of five Jccs? The question has still not been answered, but by next week, a resolution will be definitively closer.\n\n
JCCs: From Three to One?
Wendy J. Madnick
January 3, 2002
Can one Jewish Community Center (JCC) serve a population as vast as that of the San Fernando Valley?
That is the question facing Jewish communities from Burbank to Calabasas, and so far, the answer is a resounding no — even from some of the people who launched the idea in the first place.
Bunny vs. Rabbi
JTA Staff
January 3, 2002
Lindsey Vuolo, Playboy bunny, met her match last month: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
Virtual Schmooze
Ruth Andrew Ellenson
March 8, 2001
We all hear rumblings about a global community, but a global schmooze? That\’s just what the Jewish Community Centers of North America, in conjunction with the 92nd Street Y in New York City, propose to execute. Starting on Sun., March 11, the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles will host an innovative new lecture series through Kallah — a program sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and supported by the Charles and Dora Mesnick Cultural Arts Fund — by bringing such speakers as Alan Dershowitz, Elie Wiesel and Anne Roiphe to you live, via satellite. The lectures will be broadcast from the 92nd Street Y in New York City directly to JCCs across the nation, allowing participants to ask questions to their lecturers in real time for what is being termed a \”virtual gathering.\”
Beach Blanket Bar Mitzvah
Shirley Nigri
April 6, 2000
In a city where most people go to the beach on Saturday mornings, a new center has opened in an effort to connect the local Jewish community with its heritage.
An Early Face Lift
Naomi Pfefferman
September 2, 1999
On the north side of the Skirball Cultural Center, two dozen construction workers shout to each other over the roar of the 405 Freeway.
Up Front A Museum of Tolerance &’009;&’009;in Israel
Jewish Journal
June 12, 1997
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is fully committed to building a $50 million museum in Jerusalem — despite skepticism expressed by some Holocaust scholars.\n
Strumming, Fiddling at the Skirball
Beverly Gray
May 1, 1997
What is there about klezmer music that sends feet flying and excitement levels of certain Jewish audiences soaring? Nostalgia for the past or a just-found fondness for a \”new\” music\”? Whatever it is, when the klezmer band struck up a \”Freylach,\” almost instantly, a woman in a red baseball cap jumped to her feet, raised her arms to the sky and began bouncing joyfully to the music. She was quickly joined by someone in a jaunty straw hat and a T-shirt emblazoned with the word \”Danceaholic.\” Soon, there was an impromptu circle of happy bouncers — young and old — stepping lively under the warm California sun.
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