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Tommywood
Wild about Diamond

David Wild wants you to know that he is an unabashed Neil Diamond fan. So much so that he has written a book titled, "He Is ... I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond"

Bar & Bat Mitzvahs
Centenarian celebrates fourth bar mitzvah

"If my mother was here, she'd probably be saying, 'Dayenu, enough already,'" said Dr. Eugene Gettelman, who turned 100 in June. "She'd think I was meshugge for having a fourth bar mitzvah."

Israel
Briefs: Secular candidate new Jerusalem mayor, Netanyahu would nix talks

Secular businessman Nir Barkat appeared to be the new mayor of Jerusalem, according to exit polls.

Cartoons
Yes, we cantankerous

Television
Malibu camp offers respite and community for kids with HIV

" . . . This camp, this organization [Hollywood Heart] gives me true happiness.I get back so much more in ways that are impossible to quantify, in ways I couldn'tget from anything material or anything else I've ever done . . . "

U.S.
Rahm Emanuel is a fighting policy wonk with a Jewish soul [VIDEO]

One thing Rahm Emanuel is not, all agree, is the president-elect's conciliatory signal to the Jewish community after a campaign fraught with worries that Obama would tip toward even-handedness in dealing with the Middle East

Religion
Passage of Prop. 8 reveals rift between denominations

Jewish voices had joined both sides of the bitter and costly Proposition 8 debate leading up to Election Day. Reform and Conservative leaders largely condemned the stripping of civil rights from a fellow minority population, while Orthodox officials praised constitutional protection for the biblical definition of marriage.

Los Angeles
Perfect storm for charities— contributions go down and requests go up

No one has gone unscathed by the convulsions of the global economy. Even the wealthy are losing money -- and if they cut their charitable giving, it is likely to ripple across the Jewish nonprofit sector

Torah Portion
Look up to see angels

Parshat Vayera (Genesis 18:1-22:24) May we, like Abraham the Patriarch, be comforted by the appearance of what Abraham Lincoln called, "the better angels of our nature" as they come to transform our country into the caring community for which we pray every day.

Calendar
Annie Leibovitz, Ed Asner, Shelly Berman, Lainie Kazan and Elliot Gould

Singles
True confessions of an online dating addict #15: All that’s left is me

Opinion
Don’t cut support to innovative nonprofits

Our major institutions are struggling to adjust, react, prepare but most of all to respond to those most harmed

Films
Q&A with Yair Hochner—founder of Tel Aviv’s first gay and lesbian film festival

Before the 33-year-old Hochner made "Antarctica," he shot his award-winning "Good Boys," for $500; and founded Tel Aviv's first gay and lesbian film festival.

Music
Chasidic beatboxing keeps Matisyahu moving