Registration for Chai Lifeline’s charity marathon-running training program, Teen Lifeline, has opened, and a group is training in Los Angeles for the first time since the program started in 2006.
Three Kenyans won first, second and third place in Jerusalem\’s first marathon. Raymond Kipkoechh, 34, was first to cross the finish line Friday with a time of 2:26:44. Second place was taken by Mutai Kopkorir, 24 with a time of 2:26:55 and third was Kiman Njorage, 33 at 2:27:19.
Runners in the 26th annual Los Angeles Marathon on March 20 will include residents of Beit T’Shuvah, a residential treatment center for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Beit T’Shuvah is the only official Jewish charity participating in the L.A. marathon and hopes to raise $125,000 for their Run to Save a Soul campaign.
VideoJew Jay Firestone goes native in this episode of VideoJew\’s VideoGuide to Los Angeles
Used to be that every once in a blue moon, a rare Republican, who happened to be Jewish, would decide to run for office in the heavily Democratic San Fernando Valley, only to be soundly defeated at the polls.
This year, Jewish Republicans hope to change all that with three candidates: Robert M. Levy, who is running against Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks); Connie Friedman, who is up against Jewish Democrat Lloyd Levine for former Assemblyman Robert Hertzberg\’s old seat in the 40th District, which covers most of the San Fernando Valley, and newcomer Michael J. Wissot, who will compete against Assemblywoman Fran Pavley in the heavily Democratic 41st District, which is located partially in Ventura County.
Skylar Lenox, 14, hasn\’t recently visited the cemetery where her father, John, is buried. "It\’s just a plot," said Lenox, an award-winning platform diver and president of Adat Ari El\’s United Synagogue Youth chapter.
After the Yeshiva University High Schools of Los Angeles crosscountry team won the Westside League finals on Nov. 6, a competitorwas puzzled. \”You guys were so bad last year,\” the rival asked RaphyHulkower, 15. \”What happened?\”
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