When Reena first entered the program a few years ago, she was a shy and baggy-outfitted 12-year-old, weighing 170 pounds, unsure if this would be just another boring visit to the doctor. But her single mom, a registered nurse, is acutely aware of the health issues involving overweight children.
Before a rare bacterial infection ruined his body, Christopher McMillian was a top student in Cindy Berger\’s fifth-grade math class at Wilshire Crest Elementary School.
An outstanding football and track star in his high school in Portervile, near Fresno, Efseaff was courted by most Pac-10 football teams. He picked UCLA, he said, because the presence of a small Molokan and large Jewish community in Los Angeles would assure a ready supply of kosher food.
According to Robert Putnam, author of \”Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,\” family dinners occur 33 percent less frequently today than in 1970.
My 10-year-old daughter attends Hebrew school at our Reform synagogue. She recently reported that her religion teacher said that the Passover miracles never happened and that she saw a TV show \”proving\” that the splitting of the Red Sea was the result of a volcanic eruption.
A new mural joins the A-list of great Jewish murals in Los Angeles.
Rabbi Bernie King watched the rioting sparked by the Rodney King verdict, but what he saw was gam zo l\’tovah, the Jewish notion that also, this is for good.
Debbie Tenzer was having lunch with several girlfriends when the conversation got heated. \”We all had such different views on where the country was headed.
At least there\’s one good thing we can say about Abraham preparing to sacrifice his own son Isaac. When he lifts the gleaming knife above the boy\’s head, an angel calls out: \”Do not harm that child.\” Jews don\’t sacrifice their children. It might have been the norm in pagan societies, but not in our ancestors\’, and not in ours
Teen-age girls always have a strange relationship with food. When I was her age, I ate only peanut butter or salami.
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