Mrs. Matriarch
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
August 15, 2002
Miriam Cunin walks past the wall of books and the plastic-covered sofas in her living room toward a narrow table packed with photographs.
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chabad
Rabbi vs. Rabbi
Gaby Wenig
March 21, 2002
Last Monday night, shots were fired into the front window of the Living Judaism Center (LJC) in Marina del Rey and into a car belonging to center board member Harris Toibb.
Sin City Shaliach
Gaby Wenig
November 15, 2001
The table is sumptuously laid out for 16, with appetizer plates and enough silverware to promise a multicourse meal. With smells of chicken soup and sounds of seven children playing, it\’s just a typical Friday night in … Las Vegas.
Ask the Rabbi
Michael Aushenker
November 1, 2001
It\’s late on Sunday evening at KFI 640 AM\’s &\’9;Koreatown station, and within the confines of an overly bright fluorescent-lit radio booth, a tall man with Phil Donahue-white hair and a scraggly reddish beard worthy of the Norse god Thor sits alone at the mike.\n\nDressed in dependable Chabad wear — white dress shirt, black slacks, yarmulke and tzizit hanging out — Rabbi Chaim Mentz is an unexpected voice, booming out of the radio in a heavy Brooklyn accent.\n\n\”You got questions, I got answers!\” Mentz enthuses in a gravelly voice.\n\n
Is It Safe?
Mike Levy
September 13, 2001
In light of Tuesday\’s terrorist attacks, synagogues and other Jewish organizations scrambled to evaluate security precautions.
Ask Moses and You Shall Receive
Michael Aushenker
July 5, 2001
Chabad\’s AskMoses.com Web site features 60 rabbis working 24 hours, six days a week, to address the ethical, spiritual, and practical concerns of both Jews and non-Jews alike.
Backstage with Jon Voight at Chabad Telethon ’99
Jewish Journal
May 4, 2000
Backstage at Chabad Telethon \’99, Jon Voight was like the Beatles song — \”Here, There and Everywhere.\”
Purim Magic and Minutia
Charlotte Hildebrand
March 16, 2000
Hanoka was attempting to unravel the mathematical complexities of how Purim falls in Adar Bet, or the second month of Adar, this year, making 2000 a leap year, not only in the solar calendar but in the lunar, or Jewish calendar, as well.
rJon Voight and Other Jewish Mysteries
Jewish Journal
August 26, 1999
One of the enduring mysteries of Los Angeles Jewish life is Jon Voight. Each year, Jews turn on their televisions to see the Oscar-winning actor, who isn\’t Jewish, dancing the hora with a Chassidic rabbi, appealing to viewers to give money to the rabbi\’s cause, and generally looking like a yeshiva bocher on Simchat Torah.
Sunday Night Fever
Naomi Pfefferman
August 26, 1999
You\’re flipping the TV dial, and you come across something so incongruous that you\’re riveted: Bob Dylan and Jon Voight enthusiastically dancing the dervish-like kazatzka with Chassidic Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin.
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