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Fred Hayman Week in Beverly Hills

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Teen power, distinguished student,  defenders of free speech

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Saluting the Alliance; Bully for Binah; Right on, Rifkinds!

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Circuit: LAJFF, Nimoy, Smart

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Lauding Leiweke; Charitable home run; Friedman reappointed

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Hillcrest Honors ProS; Ancient Digs; Feinstein’s Fanfare

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Good friends; Keeping the Covenant; Marvelous Mandy

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Low down on the high rise

Dinner of Champions; Really N-Ice Camp

Good to be the Chief; Get Your Challah On

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AJ Congress wowed; Shaare Zedek gets record donation; Koufax in the house

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ORT Ovation; Law and Laughter; Stand and Deliver

The King of Hearts; Celebrating diversity

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Local Couple Secures Pope’s Personal Blessing of Crucifix for Ailing Catholic Friend

Civic activists and philanthropists Faith and Jonathan Cookler recently returned from an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Leadership Mission led by Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, to meet with political, religious and community leaders in Rome, Paris (where Foxman was presented with the Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac) and Berlin.

Powerful Trio; House is a Home

It was a night to acknowledge accomplished women Nov. 1, when 300 people celebrated the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) 12th annual Deborah Awards. This year's honorees, Louise Bryson of

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Starving Students, the nation's leading local mover, volunteered its movers and trucks for the SOVA Food Pantry's High Holiday Food Drive. Six Starving Students movers and two trucks helped pick up and deliver donated groceries to the SOVA warehouse where they would be distributed to families in need. The movers traveled throughout Los Angeles County and the San Fernando Valley and loaded more than 29 pallets of groceries into their trucks collected from synagogues.

Order in the McCourt; Professionally Speaking; Youth and Priviliege

Jamie McCourt, Los Angeles Dodgers' president and vice chair, was honored with the prestigious Woman of the Year award

Very fulfilled; Levin on board

The nonprofit The Fulfillment Fund's STARS 2006 gala honoring Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman and CEO Tom Rothman, raised $2.3 million to help underserved students graduate high school and attend college.

Shatner Horse Trek; Four of a Kind; Star Bright; Mayor Meets Mayor; Social Justice? Here I Am

Shatner Horse Trek; Four of a Kind; Star Bright; Mayor Meets Mayor; Social Justice? Here I Am

Local community refuses to forget 12 missing Persian Jews

Circuit news; Local community refuses to forget 12 missing Persian Jews; Smile, darn ya!; That's a WRRAP; A love match.



Power of the Prez; In the wake of war; Children work for a cure

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Roast for Richard; A Wish Is Granted; And the World Tastes Good; New Faces X 2

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Media reporters meet community; Karnit Goldwasser appeals for help

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Spirit and Chocolate Top Temple Emanuel Installation

Circuit news; Spirit and Chocolate Top Temple Emanuel Installation; Big Fun in Big Apple; Rabbi on Board; Kids Raise the 'Roof'.

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Events in Los Angeles: 30th annual Celebration of Life Faces of Hope Benefit gala, honoring the City of Hope's bone marrow transplant (BMT) program; the annual United Hostesses' Charities (UHC) 64th annual Membership Luncheon and Fashion Show; the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Entertainment Industry Awards; speech by former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon; 11th annual Los Angeles Public Library Awards Dinner; West Coast Supporters of Yeshiva University (YU) dinner

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Liel and Ken Kragen performed "We Are the World" at the International Visitors Council of Los Angeles; Helping Hand of Los Angeles celebrated its 77th anniversary by honoring entertainer Natalie Cole; Make-a-Wish Foundation held its Uncork-a-Wish Wine Tasting; Shirley Lane has been named a recipient of the 20th annual Hadassah National Leadership Award.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayal met recently and placed a call to congratulate new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. They, along with Ayal's wife, Anne, extended congratulations on the Kadima Party victory.

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Superskater and silver Olympic medalist Sasha Cohen lit up the runway recently at the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style event in Beverly Hills. It was a night of chowing down on yummy foods and stargazing as the Rodeo Drive Committee celebrated the illustrious careers of costume designers Edith Head (posthumous), James Acheson and Milena Canonero.

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Temple Emanuel was rockin' recently when it hosted the Temple Bryant A.M.E. Church Choir that performed with Emanuel's choir at a Shabbat Shira Service. The entire congregation and guests were on their feet singing and clapping in joyous rapture.

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Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills hosted an overflow crowd of 600 guests for a community conversation about Jihad, the riots in France and the threats to Israel posed by Hamas and Iran. Sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition L.A. Chapter and the Israel Christian Nexus, the program featured unique insights from noted columnist and historian Victor Davis Hanson, former PLO terrorist and anti-radical Islam activist Walid Shoebat, and French journalist Philippe Karsenty, who revealed the fraudulent story that young Muhummad Al Dura was killed by Israelis at the start of the second intifada.

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Long time L.A. drycleaner Barry Gershenson was named one of four national spokespersons for the FabriCare Foundation. Gershenson, a third-generation dry cleaning veteran has more than 40 years experience as owner of Sterling Fine Cleaning in Los Angeles. As a spokesperson for the FabriCare Foundation, Gershenson's role will be to educate consumers on the definition of a "professional" drycleaner, as well as the overall benefits of dry cleaning.

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Fit L.A. - Let’s Take a ‘J-Walk’ Around the Block

After schlepping 40 years in the desert, it's hard to imagine a CD to exercise by coming from a people who have harbored a subconscious distrust of walking. But with my daughter's upcoming nuptials, my unending kvetch about fitting into the dress won out over my skepticism.

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More than 800 people showed up to celebrate the work of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) last week at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where more than $400,000 was raised for ADL's battle against anti-Semitism, hate and bigotry.

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Twenty-five years of great music and great Judaic art were celebrated at the 25th annual Festival of Jewish Artisans at Temple Isaiah in West Los Angeles.
Vibrato Jazz Grill joined forces with Vista del Mar Child and Family Service's Presidents Club to draw more than 200 young professionals from throughout Los Angeles to help at-risk youth.
Stars sparkled brightly inside and out at the Regent Beverly Wilshire recently when CBS Chair Leslie Moonves received UNICEF's Champion for Children Award at the first UNICEF Snowflake Ball for his dedication to positively impacting children around the world.

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