Power of the Prez; In the wake of war; Children work for a cure
Norma Zager
October 5, 2006
Community briefs.
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What are you thinking about this Rosh Hashanah?
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
September 21, 2006
Rosh Hashanah resolutions.
Behind the Bimah
Meredith Jacobs
August 31, 2006
Here\’s a variation on Wolpe\’s idea — let your children stand in awe in front of the bimah, but then take them behind the bimah. Raise the curtain and demystify the sanctuary. By doing so you help them feel comfortable.
Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting
Jewish Journal
August 24, 2006
World News; Lawsuit Filed in Granada Hills Jewish Community Center Shooting; Young Quits After \’Hurtful\’ Remarks; Olmert Pressed on War Inquiry; Diaspora Money Heads North; Israeli Officials Face Sexual-Harassment Charges; Israeli Children Anxious After War; Major Israeli Writer Dies; Israel: Hezbollah Used Russian Weapons; Jewish-Owned Market in Moscow Bombed; Restaurant in India Named After Hitler; Annan Chides Iran on Holocaust Cartoons.\n
Posters by Czech Students Bring Back Lost ‘Neighbors’
Robert David Jaffee
August 24, 2006
The Czech nation, in its many incarnations, has figured prominently in Jewish lore and literature. It has spawned the Golem and Franz Kafka, to say nothing of the recent Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner collaboration, \”Brundibar,\” a play that was staged by the Berkeley and Yale repertory theaters and that took its story of children who vanquish a monstrous adult, a stand-in for Hitler or fascism in general, from an opera written in the Terezin ghetto at the time of the Holocaust.
Special Delivery – Jewish Lamaze Class Reunion
Jane Ulman
June 22, 2006
Jewish Lamaze was first sponsored by the Los Angeles Bureau of Jewish Education in the early 1980s and taught in various synagogues until the funding ran out toward the end of the decade.
And while it\’s no longer being offered in Los Angeles, as far as anyone knows, similar programs exist elsewhere.
School Risked Fiscal Peril for Its Students
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
June 8, 2006
Etz Jacob prides itself on accepting children who would not otherwise get a Jewish education. Rabbi Rubin Huttler of Congregation Etz Jacob founded the school in 1989 as a haven for new immigrants flooding into Los Angeles from Russia and Iran.
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