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discussions
God’s Conversations With Allah
Documentary filmmaker Ruth Broyde-Sharone\’s latest work, \”God and Allah Need To Talk,\” will make its Los Angeles debut Sunday, Sept. 14, with the 18-minute film being central to a three-hour interfaith celebration highlighting common bonds between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Love and Loyalty
We would always say that we were the ambassadors of love and happiness, causing people to smile as they passed by us, the chemistry almost touchable.
East Meets West
About six months ago, Gregory Rodriguez, a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times opinion section, phoned his friend, Rabbi Gary Greenebaum, West Coast regional director of the American Jewish Committee (AJ Committee). Rodriguez had attended events purported to promote intellectual fellowship among diverse Angelenos, but had found them not-so-diverse. \”There\’s a lot of lip service paid to crossing barriers in this city, but many gatherings are organized around political or ethnic lines,\” Rodriguez said.\n\nTo mix things up a bit, the two friends went on to launch a program, co-presented by the Los Angeles Public Library. The series, Zócalo, which means \”public square\” in Spanish, will gather Eastsiders and Westsiders for private discussions and public lectures on crucial civic issues. It kicks off at the downtown Central Library\’s Mark Taper Auditorium on April 9 at 7 p.m., when the Economist\’s Washington correspondent Adrian Wooldridge, co-author of \”The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea,\” will describe his take on the corporation as \”an engine that can work for the public good as well as ill,\” Greenebaum said.
How Ready Are We?
"For bioterrorism, we\’re about as prepared as we are for snow," said City Councilman Jack Weiss, who has spent a year working with security experts and local officials to figure out what Los Angeles needs to do to prepare for and prevent terrorist attacks.
Brotherly Love
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, in the early afternoon, I visit my younger brother at his nursing home, a mile from my home in Providence, R.I.
Making His Mark
On the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 4, American swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, and set his seventh consecutive world record. It was a feat unprecedented in Olympic history, and the handsome 22-year-old Californian became an instant international media celebrity, nowhere more so than in the Jewish press.
Sex-Abuse Conviction Closes Chapter
The recent sex-abuse conviction of Rabbi Baruch Lanner for groping two teenage girls closed a highly disturbing chapter for the centrist Orthodox world. But it remains to be seen how deeply the controversy will transform the community.
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