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Celebrating Sephardim

Naomi Pfefferman July 24, 1997

The Sephardic Arts Festival will take place this Sunday at the Skirball Cultural Center, and it\’s a welcome sign for Los Angeles\’ some 100,000 Sephardic Jews.\n

News of Our Own

Jewish Journal July 17, 1997

I see that it\’s time for the media to replay the perennial horror story known as The Dying Jew.

A yeshiva outgrew its downtown quarters and moved to the former site of an upstate boys\’ academy. Finding a boathouse on the property, the Rosh Yeshiva called in one of the rabbis and ordered him to organize a rowing team.

Getting Their Kicks In

Jewish Journal June 26, 1997

Soup, Sandwiches

Ruth Stroud June 19, 1997

Amid a blizzard of Spanish-language signs for passport photos, discount shoes and wedding gowns, Langer\’s Delicatessen & Restaurant sits proudly at the corner of Alvarado and 7th streets, the location it has occupied for the past 50 years. The hours are shorter — 8 to 4, Monday through Saturday, closed Sundays — and the price for a pastrami on rye is certainly higher — $7.50, versus a quarter in 1947. The conversation emanating from the brown naugahyde booths is as often in Spanish as in English. And the Ramparts police substation across the street keeps a close watch on the multiethnic parade of humanity that mills about the busy intersection, once the hub of a lively Jewish neighborhood, second only to Boyle Heights.