Thursday, January 26, 2012
It keeps you young
By Pini Herman
Jonathan, my older son, recently cradled our 7-year-old Cavadoodle in his arms and made dog-year calculations in his head. “I don’t think Pawsy. . .
Thursday, December 22, 2011
At 95, Kip’s Toyland owner ready for more fun and games
By Rachel Heller
On a chilly Monday morning in late November, the sunlit patio outside Kip’s Toyland in the original Farmers Market was awash in anticipation.. . .
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Powerlifting: She started late, but it was worth the wait
by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer
Ellen Stein is 58 years old but says she doesn’t feel like it. Indeed, Stein is a woman who seems to defy age — a competitive powerlifter who. . .
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Author promotes moderate faith for Iranian Jews
by Karmel Melamed, Contributing Writer
After their immigration to Southern California more than 30 years ago, the majority of the area’s Iranian Jewish community poured their energies. . .
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Controlling who shall live and who shall die … and when
By Ellie Kahn
He sleeps while I sit by his side. Every so often, Dad wakes up, and looks with some confusion around his small room, at the hospital bed, the TV and. . .
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Am I still relevant at 60?
The evening began as the sunset performed like fine public art, sliding slowly behind a deepening blue and glowing orange Mediterranean Sea. Next. . .
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Spry centenarian reveals key to longevity
by Sophie Golub, Contributing Writer
Alfred Raider strolled up to the bimah when he was called for the third aliyah during a recent Shabbat morning service at Shaarey Zedek Congregation,. . .
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Leo Baeck’s community of elders bridges the generation gap
By Rachel Heller
About 40 seniors gathered in a sunny community room at Leo Baeck Temple on a Wednesday morning as Fredda Wasserman, adult program director of Our. . .
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
How lying down on the job pays off
by Sheila Appleby Williams
Can you put a price on a good night’s sleep? Earl Kluft thinks so. But it will cost you. Kluft, 62, is CEO of the family-run E.S. Kluft & Co., and. . .
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Circuit: 50 Plus
By Adam Wills
Jazz composer, cellist and pianist Fred Katz performed during a retrospective of his career at the Skirball Cultural Center on Feb. 20. Honored on. . .
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Silverado facility confronts elder abuse
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
Elmore Kittower was 80 when he died in November 2007 at Silverado Senior Living, an assisted-living facility in Calabasas. His death was initially. . .
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Birthdays in Israel, then and now
By Roberto Loiederman
Birthdays with a zero have a special purchase on the imagination. Whether one turns 40 or 70, that zero marks a turning point, the end of an old. . .
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Peace Corps at 50 draws volunteers over 50
by Leslie Berliant
Lillian Mizrahi is not your typical Peace Corps volunteer. She first considered joining 40 years ago, when she moved to Los Angeles from the Bronx,. . .
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Of Time, and a Father’s First Century
By Bradley Burston
My father understands unwinnable conflicts. He has been fighting a personal war against time since 1911. "Where does the time go?" he is likely even. . .
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Pingpong therapy brings net gains to Alzheimer’s patients
By Rachel Heller
Usually, Fryda Dvorak needs a cane to move around. But put her behind a pingpong table and you wouldn’t know it. Dvorak, 86 and living with. . .
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Menorah Housing opening new building in West L.A
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
The new building on Pico Boulevard and Veteran Avenue in West Los Angeles could pass as an upscale hotel in the heart of Hollywood, with its. . .
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Gidget makes case for healthy aging
by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Contributing Writer
Kathy Kohner Zuckerman was 16 years old when her father, Frederick Kohner, published a novel based on her adventures on the beaches of Malibu. The. . .
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
UCLA’s Dr. Gary Small: Promoting Sharper Memory, Healthy Aging
by Roberto Loiederman
In “The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases” (William Morrow, $25.99), Dr. Gary Small and his. . .
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Whither the Jewish baby boomers?
By SUE FISHKOFF, JTA
As America’s 77 million baby boomers retire, they will place an unprecedented burden on the Jewish community’s infrastructure.. . .
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Jewish joke book ‘Not-So-Kosher’ is oh-so-funny
By Tom Tugend
When Sam Hoffman was organizing material for his book “Old Jews Telling Jokes: 5,000 Years of Funny Bits and Not-So-Kosher Laughs” (Villard. . .
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Sherman Grancell, 100, shows his pioneer spirit
By Tom Tugend
Politicians may well envy Sherman Grancell, who is regularly re-elected without any campaigning or attack television commercials.. . .
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Older Olim find workplace bias in Israel
by Michele Chabin, Contributing Writer
When Mike Diamond immigrated to Israel from South Africa a year and a half ago, he didn’t expect a job to fall in his lap. Though prepared for some. . .
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
My Name Is Chaya Fageh
by Eileen Douglas
Someone had done a study. I am fuzzy all these years later on the details. I read it in a psychology book I pulled down from a shelf one weekend when. . .
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Making Aliyah in the Golden Years
by Dina Kraft, JTA
In 1948, Harold Levine of the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn was rumbling through Israel’s Negev Desert in a mobile dental clinic servicing. . .
