The Friendship Circle and its Friends at Home program pairs local teenagers with families of special-needs kids in order to provide a social outlet for disabled children and support for their often over-extended parents.
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When my father informed me he had scheduled a business trip to Los Angeles and was taking my mother with him about a month after I moved out here, his timing seemed less than coincidental. Both of my parents had been anxiously phoning me on a daily basis since I left New York. The real reason they were coming was to make sure I wasn\’t living in a crack house, or at the very least had the decency to choose a Jewish crack house.
Middle East expert and former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack told an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) audience that Israel would have to endure an emboldened Arab terrorist culture and other brutal, long-lasting side effects if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq now.
\”Her plays have always dealt with strong, diverse Jewish women,\” said Olivia Cohen-Cutler of the MorningStar Commission, founded by Hadassah.
Having pulled himself out of poverty through hard work and two California real estate booms, Allen Alevy, 67, said he doesn\’t want other cash-poor Jewish families, particularly those in the military, to be guided by their pocketbook this summer.
Aviva Slesin\’s affecting but unsentimental documentary focuses on the psychological aftermath of hiding, such as the sense of abandonment child survivors carried into adulthood and the difficulty rebonding with parents.
Rabbi Mattis Weinberg, who founded Yeshivat Kerem in Santa Clara in the mid-1970s, counts as some of his strongest supporters — and detractors — former Kerem students and faculty members who now live in Los Angeles.
For some reason, it\’s rare that anyone sets me up. You would think being a thin, employed, Jewish heterosexual with a full head of hair, long eyelashes and a great sense of humor would be a gimmie.
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