The Shabbat the lights went out in Calabasas
Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes
September 28, 2007
A funny thing happened to young Jeffrey Rosenberg on his way to becoming a bar mitzvah — the lights went out all over town.
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Family Feud — with my family, it’s no game
Teresa Strasser
March 22, 2007
I would take my mom against Clint Eastwood in any movie. Sure, he usually plays a grizzled, gunslinger with cat-like reflexes and something to prove, but if you cross my mother, you will find yourself, like the title of Clint\’s greatest Western, \”Unforgiven.\”
‘The Good Shepherd’: I was a young man for the CIA
Steven Rosen
December 21, 2006
Eric Roth\’s impressive resume as a Hollywood screenwriter includes an Oscar (for adapting \”Forrest Gump\”) and a string of reality-based screenplays about the difficulties important people face choosing between realpolitik and personal morality.
Jewish Book Month’s Table of Contents
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2006
Jewish Book Month\’s Table of Contents
A grown-up children’s story
Rabbi Karen Deitsch
October 26, 2006
Noach invokes juvenile fascination upon reading the pshat. But we are not children. And underneath whimsical images and happy songs exists grown-up information to which we must attend if we have any hope for hearing youthful voices in our future.
Schmoozing with the Shammes of Shanghai
Jack Weiss
October 26, 2006
The Jews of Shanghai, fleeing Nazi persecution, thousands of Jews journeyed halfway around the world to the sanctuary offered by Shanghai\’s unique status as a free trade city.
‘The End’ is nigh for Lemony Snicket
Gaby Friedman
October 19, 2006
What will Lemony Snicket do now? And who is Beatrice? These are the questions that are setting children abuzz — a word which here means \”something that everyone is talking and guessing about,\” — now that \”The End\” (Harper Collins), the final, 13th book of 13 chapters in Snicket\’s \”A Series of Unfortunate Events,\” hit bookstores on Oct. 13, which happened to be a Friday.
Life at 85: what a trip!
Red Lachman
October 12, 2006
We look back on the past because it was another era. In our youth and young years, life included activities you chose. Your responsibilities were minimal compared to those as you grew older. Being young and thinking young allowed you to exist in a world that is the start of the middle age.
New Year brings new hope to inmates
Nick Street
September 28, 2006
Daniel, a 24-year-old UCLA student, has gotten under my skin. I met him a month ago when I followed Rabbi Yossi Carron on his rounds through Men\’s Central Jail and Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles.
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