Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director general of Hadassah Medical Organization, who oversees the operation of Hadassah\’s two Jerusalem-area hospitals, visited Los Angeles last week.
\”It\’s clobberin\’ time!\” used to be the Thing\’s catchphrase — but now he might be hollering, \”It\’s davenin\’ time!\”\n\nFour decades after his debut in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 1 (Vol. 1) — the comic book that single-handedly launched Marvel Comics — the craggy orange member of the eponymous superhero quartet has been revealed to be Jewish in \”Fantastic Four\” No. 56 (Vol. 3).
Lisa Frost was always No. 1. She was the firstborn in her family. She was the first person to start a community service program at the School of Hospitality at Boston University, from which she graduated in May 2001 and was the valedictorian. She will also be the first completed video profile on producer-director Mark Rothman\’s interactive database, \”Out of Many … One: Biographies of the Victims of Sept. 11.\”
\”Israel in Crisis: 20 Years of Israeli Art, 1980-2000,\” a summerlong avant-garde art exhibit at The Jewish Federation\’s Bell Family Gallery, distills some of the best painters who have brought about a revolution in the Israeli art scene.
\nOn the anniversary of Sept. 11, we offer a pancultural exchange with a happy ending.\n\nBack in November, UP FRONT reported about Patricia Abdullah, a Caucasian woman of Muslim faith who, after leading an unsuccessful search for a type O-positive kidney donor for acquaintance Mike Jones, an African American Christian, ultimately donated her own kidney. The Sept. 25 procedure was performed by Jewish and German surgeons at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a hospital founded by Jews.
Chabad of California\’s 22nd annual \”L\’Chaim to Life Telethon,\” hosted by Dennis Prager, was humming along nicely with a long roster of talent that included classic actors James Caan and Elliott Gould, comic actor Dom DeLuise and Israeli singer David \”Dudu\” Fisher. Then 10:30 p.m. rolls around and the KCET soundstage — where the telethon is broadcast — went amok. Enter the Sand Man.
Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez are twins who were born conjoined at the cranium. Headline-makers since arriving at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at UCLA\’s Mattel Children\’s Hospital in Westwood, the twins were separated in a nearly 23-hour surgery on Aug. 6.
Some things are just better the second time around. For some, it\’s marriage. For others, it\’s childbirth or career. For Mel Guthman, a member of Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades, this was the case with his bar mitzvah — and well worth the 70-year wait.
In the nonprofit circles, former \”Let\’s Make a Deal\” host Monty Hall has built a reputation for being a \”tireless\” fundraiser, having helped raised nearly $1 billion over the years for a lengthy roster of charities, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. Yet \”tireless\” might be too weak an adjective for the 80-year-old Hall — try \”unstoppable.\”
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