After midnight one Sunday last December, Motty Stock found his wife, Freda, unconscious on the bedroom floor. He picked up two phones and simultaneously called 911 and Hatzolah, an all-volunteer emergency first-response service.
The merger of the three groups signifies a desire within the Iranian Jewish community for greater participation in the larger Jewish community and a desire to attract Jewish youth to its cause. After more than two decades in the Southland, Persian Jews are organizing to present a united front for their community.
The day my mother was transferred from a nursing home to a hospice, I raced from Baltimore to northeastern Pennsylvania. This 80-mph excursion into death — my mother\’s death — might rescue me from whatever boredom and tedium had enveloped me, but it would also plunge me into a realm where I didn\’t necessarily relish going. But go I went. For you see, there was no choice.
Thinking about doing something for Israel but don\’t have time or inclination to go there and volunteer in person?
Actor Jack Black wowed the crowd during Beth Chayim Chadashim\’s (BCC) Humanitarian Awards Brunch at the Omni Hotel on Feb. 22 when he played his \”saxaboom\” — a toy saxophone that belts out prerecorded tunes.
The Friendship Circle and its Friends at Home program pairs local teenagers with families of special-needs kids in order to provide a social outlet for disabled children and support for their often over-extended parents.
Christmas Day found some Southern California Jews volunteering at social service agencies, some working and still others marking the holiday with a Jewish tradition — eating Chinese food and going to movies.
The Federation is committed to a strong and vibrant JCRC.
Engaging residents of our community to impact the \”urban agenda\” is the objective. But the agenda of the organized Jewish community must be redefined in a thoughtful, targeted and strategic way to successfully mobilize human resources beyond the core of active, identified Jews.
Yuri Gottesman is a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a motley group of activists from around the world that converge in the West Bank and Gaza ostensibly to encourage the Palestinians to engage in nonviolent resistance against the Israelis.
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