Diversity Blooms in the Land of Roses
Gaby Wenig
September 18, 2003
Jews have had a presence in Pasadena since the late 1800s, yet many of the few thousand who lived there preferred to go unnoticed.
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Valley Festival Draws Thousands
Michael Aushenker
September 11, 2003
\”More booths, more vendors, more of everything\” is how festival co-chair Nancy Parris Moskowitz described this year\’s Los Angeles Jewish Festival.
Worst-Case Scenarios
Rob Eshman
March 27, 2003
The CST model may not be a perfect fit, and it wouldn\’t replace increased help from the local and federal governments, but a closer look at it may provide a new and improved way to address the increased security needs of our community.
Culture Shot
Michael Aushenker
February 27, 2003
The Filipino owners of an Asian restaurant at work. A glimpse of Thai worshippers praying inside a Buddhist temple. A man perusing an\nArmenian bookstore.
Christmas Takes
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
November 28, 2002
As a young Jewish student in the \’60s, Robin Siegal believed that Chanukah was basically ignored in the public schools she attended, which included Hamilton High School. "
Teaching Cops Tolerance
David Evanier
December 14, 2000
There\’s enough work to go around for everyone in teaching tolerance and diversity to law enforcement in California, according to the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Depicting Issues
Tom Tugend
August 24, 2000
Some 30 delegates to the Democratic National Convention took time out from politicking to participate in a hands-on workshop in democracy and diversity, initiated by a Jewish institution. The workshop was based on the youTHink program, in which public school students use the arts to grapple with social issues and then act out their new awareness to initiate projects that will further responsibility and tolerance in their schools and communities
Politics
James D
October 8, 1998
LAPD officer Terri Utley says that since Los Angeles is such a diverse, multicultural place, it\’s difficult to know sometimes what the taboos and customs are in different groups. \”Our goal is to serve, cooperate and not offend,\” she says.
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