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Laurie and Steve Keleman: Volunteerism, built for two
Leslee Komaiko
January 5, 2017
Given their parents’ connections to the Jewish community, it makes sense that Laurie and Steve Keleman of Woodland Hills would be active, as well.
Judy Mark
Jewish Journal
December 30, 2015
Improving rights within the disabled community isn’t just a battle; it’s an out-and-out war, and activist Judy Mark is on the front lines.
Boys to men: Jewish education helps prepare kids for life
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2014
Raising three boys to be well-rounded, menschy men isn’t easy, and I admit to making one or two mistakes (per hour) in my efforts to guide my sons toward actions that reflect soulfulness, integrity and compassion.
Nominate someone you know to be part of the Jewish Journal’s annual Mensch issue!
JewishJournal.com
November 28, 2012
If you know someone in the Los Angeles area whose great work on behalf of others goes unsung or undersung, who doesn\’t get paid for what he or she does (or doesn\’t get paid near enough), whose life is the embodiment of the values of menschlikeit, tsedaka and gmilut hassidim
Letters to the Editor: Foie Gras ban, JCC closures, being a mensch
Jewish Journal
June 13, 2012
In the June 8 Graduation section, I read about an 18-year-old young lady who helps rehabilitate abused horses and is moving into a nursing program with the goal of becoming an orthopedic surgeon (“Healing Others, and Herself”). I am so proud of our community and its compassionate heritage.
She’s found a world of volunteerism
Ryan Torok
January 5, 2012
Izzie Levinson, 16, grew up in a family that is devoted to community service: Her father, David Levinson, is the founder of Big Sunday, an extensive regional volunteer program that grew out of a Mitzvah Day project.
Listener, advocate for the dying
Anita K. Kantrowitz
January 5, 2012
Getting old, as Bette Davis famously said, is not for sissies. And developing a terminal illness, as Davis later learned, is no picnic either. Yet while most of us fear sickness, aging and the end of life, hospice volunteer Michael Curtis finds solace and purpose — pleasure, even — in being with the elderly as they face death.
Japan disaster and Itamar killings put Jewish giving on the spot
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2011
Almost as soon as the catastrophe in Japan began unfolding last Friday, Jewish groups scrambled to figure out how to get help to the area. In Israel, search-and-rescue organizations like ZAKA and IsraAid readied teams to head to the Japanese devastation zone. In Tokyo, the Chabad center took an accounting of local Jews and began organizing a shipment of aid to stricken cities to the north. In the United States, aid organizations ranging from B’nai B’rith International to local and national federation agencies launched campaigns to collect money for rescue, relief and rebuilding efforts in the Pacific.
Don’t call him super-rav
Jonah Lowenfeld
December 23, 2010
“Is Rabbi T a crime-fighting rabbi?” That’s what a student asked Pressman Academy Rav Beit Sefer (head school rabbi) Chaim Tureff at a recent question-and-answer session.
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