‘Boy’ Puts a New Twist on an Old Rite
Carla Zeitlin
November 14, 2002
Herb Citrin isn\’t your typical bar mitzvah boy. He celebrated his rite of passage at the age of 80.
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A Persian American Feast
Shanee Banfshe Michaelson
September 5, 2002
Every Erev Rosh Hashana, our dining room table is set with the requisite items: apples, honey,tongue and beets. Zucchini and black-eyed peas.
A Nightmare on Wedding Street
Michele Goldman
July 11, 2002
As a little girl, Anna* always dreamed of a perfect wedding. Then, at 32, after a three-and-a-half-year engagement, she was ready to realize that dream.
A Mazel Tov in Shanghai
Dvir Bar-Gal
July 11, 2002
The cosmopolitan Chinese city of Shanghai has witnessed what is believed to be its first Jewish marriage ceremony in more than 50 years.
Ziegler’s Elite Eight
Carin Davis
May 16, 2002
Three bouncers, two lawyers and a musician among them, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies class of 2002 brings a new leadership to the Conservative movement this week with the ordination of eight rabbis. From backgrounds as different as the paths on which they are about to embark, together Mark Ankcorn, Micah Caplan, Andrea Haney, Daniel Greyber, Baruch HaLevi, Barry Leff, Eric Rosin and Ranon Teller received ordination on Monday, May 17.
A Fresh Crop
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
May 24, 2001
A delicious breeze wafted through the white tent erected on the brand-new, football field-sized parking lot of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) on May 14, cooling gowned graduates, faculty, and alumni — plus a bevy of proud relatives and friends — as the school awarded degrees to a group of freshly minted Jewish educators and communal service professionals and a clutch of rabbis-to-be.
Comes the Bride
Wendy J. Madnick
January 11, 2001
The ceremony was lovely. There was music, wedding cake, a love song and plenty of sentiment to go around.
Celebrating the Rebirth of ‘L.A.’s Jewish Headquarters’
Michael Aushenker
December 14, 2000
The Jewish Federation Goldsmith Center — reborn state-of-the-art headquarters of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles — enjoyed a splashy grand-opening celebration on Dec. 10. Originally slated as a community-wide event, the Donor Recognition Ceremony served as a formal thank-you to lead contributors, such as Elaine and Bram Goldsmith, the building\’s namesakes. With an original $5-million matching gift, the Goldsmith family launched the capital campaign for the 12-story building\’s two-year refurbishing process, which corrected damage incurred from the Northridge quake.
Honoring the Righteous
Brianne Korn
April 6, 2000
When the atrocities of the Holocaust came to public light, many unsung heroes remained in the shadows.
In a ceremony at the United Nations on Monday, some rescued Holocaust survivors met their unknown heroes, or those heroes\’ family members, for the first time since the war.
The international community honored government diplomats who risked their careers and lives to save thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi terror.
Touching the Past
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
June 24, 1999
Every Shabbat and holiday for the last 16 years, Sha\’arei Am: The Santa Monica Synagogue has chanted the 3,000-year-old words from a Torah scroll salvaged from Susice.
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