Seventy elementary, high school and middle school teachers, principals, counselors and psychologists gathered Jan. 18 at the Museum of the Holocaust for the first of four sessions in the Anti-Defamation League\’s (ADL) 18th Annual Teacher-Training Workshop on the Holocaust, titled \”Women in the Holocaust: Resisters to Perpetrators.\”
Two Saturday evening revues for your pleasure. At the University of Judaism, \”Two Tenors, Three Egos\” takes on the friendly competition between Broadway stars, delivering comedy and showtunes.
When Florence Hoffman, 76, says, \”my children are very well-behaved and very intelligent,\” she sounds like any other Jewish grandmother, brimming with pride.
One of Hitler\’s first fiats in 1933 led to the dismissal of all Jewish professors from German universities.\n
Pauline Bebe, France\’s first and only female rabbi, was in town last week, soaking up not only the winter California warmth but our spiritual rays, too.
It\’s a rainy Monday morning, and youth from Watts and Beverly Hills are sitting together in the auditorium of David Starr Jordan High School in South Central L.A. Rabbi Marc Schneier and Martin Luther King III share a stage, and even the ninth-graders are paying attention.
Although only 23 miles apart, Milken Community High School in Bel Air and Jordan High School in South Central might as well exist in different worlds.
When Becca Yuré turned 13, her enthusiasm for pandas became the focus of her Bat Mitzvah celebration.
The world gets smaller every day. Thanks to technological tools such as the Internet and e-mail, people in the United States can easily communicate with others around the globe — if they speak one another\’s language.
In the past, the Jewish Community Foundation has used its grant-making powers to help senior citizens, Conejo Valley preschoolers, and teens traveling to Israel.
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