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poverty
Attention Israelis: Please stop kvetching
Could it be that Israelis just need to kvetch about whoever\’s in the headlines?
Iranian Jews struggle with segregation, presumption and assimilation
There is no demographic study of the Iranian Jewish community in Los Angeles, although its size is generally given as 30,000, including the American-born children of the original immigrants.
Taking responsibility
Social Justice seems to be the central theme that pervades just about any Jewish periodical. Open any issue of The Jewish Journal, for instance, and you will see all sorts of articles and editorials related to tikkun olam, acts of charity and kindness that help to repair or perfect the world.
Many aging Shoah survivors are living a new nightmare
Moscovitz is one of the tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors living in abject poverty in the United States. These witnesses to the 20th century\’s worst atrocity are enduring a second nightmare, often struggling just to feed and clothe themselves.Their wartime experiences, which included malnutrition and physical and psychological abuse, have made them prone to costly medical and mental problems as they age.
King/Drew closing spotlights crisis in health care
Asking the 100,000 uninsured residents of South Los Angeles to take an hourlong bus ride for medical services they may not receive is hardly a solution to the current health-care
crisis.
Interfaith dialogue continues locally despite Hathout brouhaha; Sukkot huts inspires home building
Community Briefs
Shedding Light on a Dark ‘Rising’
The film \”City of God\” shed light on a long-neglected subject, the Third World conditions and inescapable warfare existing in Rio de Janeiro\’s slums. Now comes \”Favela Rising,\” a documentary that not only limns the tragedy of the favelas, the Brazilian ghettoes, but also tells the inspirational tale of Anderson Sá, a black Messiah figure who founds a reggae music club that offers a nonviolent alternative to their rampant drug and gang activity.
Family Law Center Thanks Its Founding ‘Angel’
If you meet Grace Quinn sunning herself on the patio of her home at Westwood Horizons Retirement Residence or pushing her bright red walker in Trader Joe\’s, you wouldn\’t guess that this nonagenarian is one of the founders of Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center.
New Articles
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