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Etta Israel Campers Learn Skills for Life

Julie Gruenbaum Fax August 4, 2005

Mark Worland — six-foot-something, dressed in tight black and skinhead bald — grabs Navid by the arm.

\”Come with me!\” he barks.

\”No!\” screams Navid, barely 5-feet tall.

Navid throws himself on his back, locks the bottom of his feet to Worland\’s knees, and shields his face and head from Worland\’s flailing fists.

\”Great job,\” says Worland, a self-defense specialist, shaking Navid\’s hand and helping him up, as Navid\’s friends applaud.

This self-defense class is part of a repertoire of life skills that Navid and his peers are learning at Independent Living Skills, a summer program for developmentally disabled adults run by Etta Israel Center, a mid-Wilshire nonprofit for people with special needs.

Half a Century on Reform’s Frontlines

Julie Gruenbaum Fax May 19, 2005

When the Reform movement published its new \”Mishkan T\’filah\” last November, the prayer book looked comfortably familiar to Reform rabbinic students in Los Angeles. It was clear to them that a homemade siddur they had created for their own use had influenced the first official prayer book published by the Union for Reform Judaism since 1975.

Once again, the L.A. branch of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) had made its mark on the Reform movement. The new, official prayer book, like the homemade siddur, includes traditional prayers in Hebrew, as well as new alternative readings and meditations — changes in keeping with Reform\’s adoption of more traditional practices.

Learn to Remember

Julie Gruenbaum Fax April 28, 2005

Skip Aldrich signals a student to turn down the lights and flips on the projector. An image of a gaunt concentration camp inmate hunched over a workbench evokes a collective gasp from the 10th-grade world history class at John C. Fremont High School in South Los Angeles.

Grading Parents on Report Card Day

Julie Gruenbaum Fax January 13, 2005

Report card season is meant as judgment day for kids, but in many cases it is the parents who come under scrutiny — most notably by the kids themselves.

How a parent reacts can bring a kid\’s self-esteem up or knock it down, can encourage them to put forth more effort or to become complacent and can send strong messages about priorities, values and dealing with being judged.

‘A Day Apart’ — Together

Julie Gruenbaum Fax January 6, 2005

Keeping its commitment to promoting \”homemade Judaism,\” The Shalom Hartmann Institute has published \”A Day Apart, Shabbat at Home\” ($24.95), a step-by-step guidebook containing everything from helpful hints to spiritual reflections on how to make Shabbat meaningful.

Overnight Fire Destroys Glatt Mart

Julie Gruenbaum Fax December 30, 2004

A fast-moving fire destroyed Glatt Mart on Pico Boulevard late Monday night, laying waste to aisles of groceries and causing the roof of the building to collapse.

One firefighter injured his foot fighting the blaze, but no one was in the building when the fire broke out.

The Fire Department is still investigating the cause and has not yet assigned a dollar amount to the damage.

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