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Festival of Arts celebrates a decade of Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership

Robert David Jaffee March 15, 2007

In the mid-1990s, following the Oslo peace accords and with the prospect of a thriving Israeli economy, the debate raged in Jewish philanthropic circles about what might change if Israel \”was going to grow up and not be a poor cousin,\” said Lois Weinsaft, senior vice president at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, who oversees Israeli and other overseas programs.

Stop sugarcoating intermarriage

Steven M. Cohen March 9, 2007

Social scientists, myself included, have charted — and implicitly celebrated — the growing and exhilarating diversity of Jewish identities, communities and innovation.

Conejo and West Valley shuls rate high with newcomers

Adam Wills October 12, 2006

The JOI presented results from \”The Jewish Outreach Scan of the West Valley/Conejo Valley\” during a well-attended Jewish Federation/Valley Alliance board meeting at The New JCC at Milken in West Hills on Oct. 4. The survey was funded by the United Jewish Communities\’ Emerging Communities Project.

Reform Rabbis Split Over Performing Mixed Marriages

Sue Fishkoff July 13, 2006

Rabbi Deborah Bravo of Temple B\’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, N.J., went through plenty of placement interviews after her 1998 ordination as a Reform rabbi. Everywhere, she got the same question: not about her attitude toward homosexuality, not whether she wore a kippah and tallit, but whether she would officiate at an intermarriage. \”It has become the litmus test for placement,\” Bravo said in San Diego at last month\’s annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform movement\’s rabbinical association.

Keeping Your Head If Your Child Intermarries

Jewish Journal July 13, 2006

When you first learn that your child is — or might be — marrying someone who\’s not Jewish, you may not feel like celebrating. This can be a difficult and stressful occasion instead of the joyous one you had hoped for. To help you, here are a series of tips from people whose children have intermarried, as well as from outreach professionals and counselors.\n

Young Lawyer Has a Ball With Bet Tzedek

Marc Ballon June 22, 2006

Founded in 1997, the Justice Ball has grown into one of the nation\’s most successful nonprofit fundraisers/parties targeting young professionals, Jews and non-Jews alike. Over the past nine years, more than 16,000 attorneys, financiers and others have attended the soirees, and scores of them have gone on to become Bet Tzedek contributors and volunteers.

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