If you were beginning to feel that too much time had passed since you last saw dancing bearded rabbis on television, then fear not, because West Coast Chabad, the organization that sponsors the \”L\’Chaim\” telethon, is broadcasting a special Chanukah party on KCAL-TV Channel 9 each night of Chanukah.
This year the group has grown to about 40 students, having built up a community through informal and formal Judaic classes and study partnerships, Shabbatons and a Thursday night \”parsha and pizza\” group.
In February 2001, a Palestinian bus driver ran over a group of soldiers at a bus stop, and caused severe injuries to Monique Evans, 19.
When is a city\’s Jewish book festival not actually located in that city? When it\’s based in Los Angeles.
Neil Sheff was shocked to find himself something of a celebrity at a conference of North American Jewish film festival directors a couple years ago. Of the 75 festivals in the United States and Canada, his Los Angeles Sephardic Film Festival is the only one dedicated to showcasing the Sephardic experience. \”I was literally surrounded by people who wanted to pick my brain,\” he said, incredulous.\n\n
Bruce. Bruce Goldman.
On my machine, he sounded like a cross between Super Fly and Tony the Tiger. Infusing \”This is B.G.\” and \”What\’s the d-low?\” with a closing trilled, \”Have a grrrrreat day.\”
Ever since she was a young girl, Rebecca Solo looked forward to when she would be old enough to visit Israel through a program, following the path that many teenagers at her synagogue take during high school.
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.
"I went with police one night on patrol on Ben Yehuda Street," recalled Irvine Police Chief Michael Berkow. "There was a rock concert that night, about 20,000 people on the street, probably 80 percent 13, 14, 15, 16 years old, the rest parents with toddlers.
On my first day as editor-in-chief of a heavily financed Bay Area Internet startup whose mission — its mostly female staff of trendy 20-somethings recited like a mantra — was to "empower" young women, I realized I had a big problem.
