The man hailed by many of his fellow scientists as the world\’s leading earthquake predictor has proven his mettle in California and Japan and now wants to help Israel become the forecasting center for the Middle East.
Melina Gimal has been a Jewish community professional for most of her life.
After extensive research, campus tours, a detailed application and an interview, Aidan Buckner was recently accepted into the school of his choice. While his parents may have done the legwork, it is Aidan who will enter kindergarten at the Ronald and Trana Labowe Family Day School at Adat Ari El in Valley Village this fall. The 5 1/2-year-old seems unfazed by the upcoming transition, but for his parents, the news marks the end of a long journey.
What does it mean to \”resist history\”? What is \”historicism,\” and why would there be \”discontents\” toward historicism in German Jewish thought, or in any intellectual society?
A report that Israel\’s President Moshe Katsav chided Iranian Jews for settling in Los Angeles rather than in Israel has been criticized by a leader of the local Iranian Jewish community.
David Milch\’s HBO Western series, "Deadwood," tells of a grimy mining town where drinking, whoring, killing, cussing and cheating are de rigeur.
\”Arafat is a powerful symbol. But today it\’s very difficult to say that he has control over what\’s happening on the ground.\”
Make a play date today or tomorrow. The Celebrity Staged Play Reading Series performance of \”Talley\’s Folley\” presents husband-and-wife team Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James reprising their roles in last month\’s Pasadena Playhouse production.
He was a lifelong atheist who was offered the presidency of the State of Israel.\n\nHe was a dedicated pacifist who helped usher in the atomic age.\n\nHe was a modest man whose face may be the most familiar one in the world.\n\nThough pictured mainly as a frail, unkempt old man, he was adored by women, fathered an illegitimate child when he was 23 and after marriage engaged in a number of extramarital affairs.\n\nThe complex and contradictory man was, of course, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest intellects of all ages, who radically transformed our understanding of the universe.
While a new report says that sexism pervades the North American Jewish federation system, in Los Angeles, the facts paint a much more positive picture of gender equality.
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