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After School Is Prime Game Time for Kids of All Needs
Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
August 17, 2006
\”I wanted to be a coach because I like sports,\” said Gaskin of her involvement with the Prime Time Games program.
The Pacific Palisades resident initially took on the responsibly to fulfill an outreach requirement for her bat mitzvah last spring. The experience has satisfied more than a ceremonial obligation.
\”I feel good because I\’m helping other people,\” Gaskin said.
Wiesel Adds Sinai to Shabbat ‘Collection’
Dara Lehon
May 25, 2006
Having celebrated Shabbat around the world, Elie Wiesel conveyed the novelty of Sinai\’s Friday Night Live service, which invites singles to stick around for socializing.
The Sinai Century
Amy Klein
May 18, 2006
How do you sum up 100 years of history? That\’s the task of historian Florie Brizel, who was hired by Sinai two years ago to write the history of the shul. She just completed \”Sinai Temple: A Centennial History,\” a narrative that runs more than 200 pages.
Kabbalah and the Modern Shrink
Gaby Friedman
October 6, 2005
Since the early 1990s, Rabbi Abner Weiss, former rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation and current rabbi at the Westwood Village Synagogue, has been using kabbalistic tools in his psychology practice. Recently, he published \”Connecting to God, Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology,\” a book that asserts the congruity of the two disciplines.
Spectator – The Geffen’s Great Escape
Tom Tugend
May 19, 2005
Cunningly constructed, the play relates the adventures and misadventures of the Sycamore Family of New York, whose guiding motto is, do whatever turns you on, however eccentric, and you\’ll have lots of fun, avoid ulcers and enjoy a happy ending.
Weiss Support Strong Despite Challenge
Marc B. Haefele
February 24, 2005
For most L.A. City Council members, the March municipal election is less a race than a stroll in the park. Mayor Jim Hahn faces four serious challengers, but just before the December filing deadline, it seemed that the only serious council race was in the Westside\’s 11th District, where newbies Flora Krisiloff and Bill Rosendahl are squared off to replace Cindy Miscikowski, who has been forced out by term limits.
Synagogues ‘On Guard’ for Holidays
David Finnigan
August 26, 2004
Sinai Temple in Westwood has spent at least $365,000 annually on increased security since Sept. 11.
\”That\’s just for my manpower, to have bodies here when the building is open,\” said Howard Lesner, the Conservative synagogue\’s executive director, who gleans the extra security budget from a post-Sept. 11, $36-per-student fee at Sinai\’s day school and another $200-per-family temple fee.
Postcard From the Westwood Protest
Marc Ballon
April 3, 2003
On the day the war in Iraq began, I endured a migraine-inducing traffic jam on Wilshire Boulevard. As I inhaled car fumes for nearly an hour, my frustration grew. It reached the boiling point when I learned the cause behind the gridlock: antiwar protesters. The blocking of traffic by the No-War-In-Iraq protesters not only had no impact on the events unfolding abroad, but they diverted valuable police resources from fighting crime and preventing terrorism. They also made me late for dinner at my parents\’ house.
So it was with scant enthusiasm that I went to the Federal Building in Westwood a few days later to cover the antiwar marches for The Journal. On my way to the rally, I walked by a hippie with a stringy gray ponytail. Shouting \”Bush is a fascist\” in a stentorian voice, he gave the Nazi salute to shocked motorists, presumably an expression of his anger toward the administration.
His antics failed to move me. Neither did the opinions of the first protester with whom I chatted. After accusing the United States of going to war for oil, he said America was \”killing innocent Iranians for no reason.\”
Call me uninformed, but I thought the America was fighting in Iraq.
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