The Eretz Alliance School may be small, but its lineage is long and distinguished. Eretz Alliance, which occupies a brand-new campus in Tarzana, opened this fall with 36 students enrolled in its nursery school and kindergarten classes. Ultimately the $7 million building will house students through the fifth grade.
An Asian-American Fairfax High School student asks Ethiopian-born Taktu (Rachel) Yasu how long it took her to learn English. An African-American classmate wants to know if she encountered racism in her native Israel. Another African-American senior inquires if there are any Jews left in Ethiopia.
The canonization of Edith Stein, a Jewish intellectual who became a Carmelite nun and died in Auschwitz, hits a raw nerve. A Jew, a nun, a martyr, a saint: How to respond to each of these links in the chain?
Not long before Hurricane Georges churned up the southeast, Hurricane Galia slammed into Los Angeles. And advocates for Middle East peace couldn\’t have been more relieved.
Instead of bringing home a Gucci handbag or a recipe for great risotto, Esther Elfenbaum returned from Italy with a host of bright, new ideas that could transform preschools as we know them.
That\’s what Julius Caesar might have bellowed had he lived long enough to witness the resurgence of the Three Stooges empire with the first Three Stooges West Coast Convention, held last weekend at the Hilton Burbank Airport Hotel.
Beit Shalom is a newly minted coalition of 16American Jewish groups \”dedicated to the advancement of peace andreligious pluralism in Israel.\”
To explain the almost cult-like appeal of writerRichard Rodriguez, best known as an essayist on PBS\’ \”News Hour withJim Lehrer,\” let\’s start with a story he told last weekend to anear-capacity crowd at the Skirball Cultural Center
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