7 Days In Arts
7 Days in Arts
Setting a contemporary example for the ancient value of "l\’dor v\’dor" (from generation to generation), supporters of Heritage Pointe will walk through Irvine May 31 in a communitywide 5K walk to raise money for the county\’s only Jewish retirement home.
The calendar is doing for Purim this year what Emeril suggests is good for any recipe: Kick it up a notch.
A movie about the \”big 3-0\” and a good cause drew the famous and the wannabe famous to Club Ivar in Hollywood as \”Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts Thirty\” had its L.A. premiere on Sept. 28.
No matter what the profit, most synagogue administrators agree that the yearly celebrations are helpful morale boosters.
Like college graduates looking to make career contacts, many of the professional and lay day school leaders, major philanthropists, Jewish Federation leaders and Jewish endowment fund representatives attending the PEJE Leadership Assembly portion, the first of its kind in the United States, took time out to network.
Bob Dole. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Harry Belafonte. Robert Goulet. The willingness of such well-known figures to make public their battle with prostate cancer has brought visibility to an issue that until the last few years, lacked the attention, funding and research interest befitting a disease that will strike more than 180,000 men in the United States this year.