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Leslee Komaiko and Kelly Hartog
March 11, 2020
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kehillat israel
What the Beverly Hills Hotel boycott says about where we draw our lines in a global economy
Jared Sichel
May 21, 2014
If you walk up the red carpet and into the Beverly Hills Hotel on a Friday evening or Saturday morning, at the left side of the lobby, inside the Sunset Room, you’ll find an Orthodox Jewish prayer service.
How to make b’nai mitzvah meaningful
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2013
I was meeting with an upcoming bat mitzvah girl the other day and talking with her about the Torah (what else?). I pointed out all the books that surrounded us in my study and mentioned that as someone who has published five books myself, how thrilled I would be if people were still reading even one of my books 20 years from now.
Rabbi Sheryl Lewart dies at 65
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
December 12, 2012
Rabbi Sheryl Lewart, who served as associate rabbi at Kehillat Israel (KI) in Pacific Palisades, died Nov. 30 at the age 65 after a second battle with breast cancer.
Prop. 34: Repeal the death penalty
Jewish Journal
November 1, 2012
Jewish tradition has always championed the idea that justice is a fundamental necessity. When the Torah commands us, “Justice, justice shall you pursue,” the repetition is to teach that not only we must have just ends, our means to those ends must be equally just.
Red String
Marlene Adler Marks
January 3, 2002
I wear a piece of red string around my right wrist, a talisman for healing.
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