Rather than waiting for her son to express himself verbally, Rabbi Debra Orenstein, like many Southland parents, decided to enhance Emmet\’s language skills by taking baby sign-language classes. Teaching sign-language to preverbal hearing babies is one of the fastest-growing parenting trends in North America.
My neurosis is like a Ferrari. I can go from 0 to 60 in under four seconds.
I\’m reluctant to draw lessons from the hurricane, even if the High Holidays are a time of stock taking, and even if Jewish tradition suggests that calamities are \”heavenly alarms\” meant to arouse repentance.
No disrespect to our mothers, but courtship rituals have changed since they were dating. So forget all their antiquated rules.
Have you noticed more and more lately that your child is engrossed in a constant, beeping dialogue with her computer?
It\’s a lot more than Kenn Phillips could have bargained for when he accepted this gig as principal. Lucky for him, he doesn\’t have to come back tomorrow.
That\’s because Phillips isn\’t the real principal, but merely principal for a day. Phillips is among more than 200 professionals who arranged to shadow principals as part of a Los Angeles Unified School District effort to create alliances between businesses and schools.
Last October, a man called with a complaint. Before I could ask what was the matter, he launched into a tirade about a biased and\n\ninaccurate article. He said he couldn\’t believe a serious newspaper would print such lies. He was so angry, he was this close to canceling his subscription.\n\nI wasn\’t sure which article he was referring to, so I gently asked him to be more specific. He went on to describe a piece I had absolutely no memory of.\n\n\”Are you sure you read this in The Jewish Journal?\”\n\n\”The Journal?\” he said. \”No! This was in The Los Angeles Times.\”\n\n\”The Times?\” I said. \”So why are you calling me?\”\n\n\”Because they won\’t pick up the phone!\”
Eleven teams. Thirty days. One-million dollars. Zero bagels. That is what 32-year-olds Avi Scheier and Joe Rashbaum tried to face as one of the teams on the sixth season of the around-the-world reality show \”The Amazing Race.\”
\”Race\” teams are given clues telling them where to go and what tasks they must perform. At the end of each episode, the last team to reach the \”pit stop\” is eliminated — the first team to cross the finish line at the end wins $1 million.
Seldom has the boredom, tension and camaraderie of men and women at war been portrayed more realistically and economically than in this film, which has been a surprise hit among Israeli moviegoers, soldiers and civilians.
\”I gotta tell you,\” said Lenny Silberman, North American continental director of the JCC Maccabi Games, \”doing this for the games for 20 years and working with those communities, the potential for a big balagan [brouhaha] was definitely there.\”
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