Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kol HaMispallel—All those who pray

Yeshiva Boys Choir/Composed and produced by Eli Gerstner/YBC Remix by Shay Barak

Thursday, February 15, 2007

After 40, it’s all maintenance

By Judy Gruen

The other day at the gym, the teacher sent us to the wall for a set of standing push-ups. "Place your hands on the wall at breast level," she. . .

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Cervical cancer vaccine stirs hope and debate

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner

According to the Centers for Disease Control, at least 50 percent of sexually active people contract a genital HPV infection. About 6.2 million new. . .

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Israeli photo application promises more beautiful you

By Karin Kloosterman

Since its unveiling in Boston, the response to the Beauty Function has been overwhelming: Media, including New Scientist and Forbes, have been eager. . .

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Mud’s a dirty business but entrepreneur digs it

By Keren Engelberg

"My goal is to be able to support the community I live in and support the organizations that are working to protect the Copper River.... It supports. . .

Thursday, November 2, 2006

In the ‘hood, the treat is no trick

By David Suissa

Halloween is seen as the crowning achievement of secular emptiness. You celebrate, glorify, trivialize and idolize something as deep and holy as. . .

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Books: Kristallnacht’s memory revealed and recovered

By Michael Berenbaum

Kristallnacht marked the end of Jewish life in Germany; a pivotal turning point in what later became known as the Holocaust. A generation is. . .

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Schmoozing with the Shammes of Shanghai

By Jack Weiss

The Jews of Shanghai, fleeing Nazi persecution, thousands of Jews journeyed halfway around the world to the sanctuary offered by Shanghai's unique. . .

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Life in the ‘hood: Gino Tortorella, hairdresser to the Jews

By David Suissa

There's no question that Gino's got a thing for Jews. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that for the better part of 40 years, Jewish. . .

Thursday, July 28, 2005

L.A. Shoah Survivor, Liberator to Reunite

By Tom Tugend

After 60 years and 10 days, Samuel Goetz finally found the GI who liberated him on May 6, 1945.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

Transcript to the 10 p.m. ET Show

Transcript to the 10 p.m. ET Show

Thursday, November 4, 2004

More Than Surviving

By Julie G Fax

Nandor Markovic was lying in the gutter, awaiting death. He had already seen his best friend shot in the head, but Markovic could not take another. . .

Thursday, November 4, 2004

Patriot Paranoia?

By Bill Boyarsky

By chance, Bet Tzedek Legal Services sponsored a program on the American Patriot Act just about the same time readers were beginning to get their. . .

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Q & A With Wilda Spalding

By Sarah Price Brown

Open Wilda Spalding's "little black book," and you'll discover a code of ethics -- written in part by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted by the United. . .

Thursday, October 21, 2004

A Personal Reflection on General Assemblv Actions on Israel and thePractice of Conversion

By Doug Huneke

I have devoted almost my entire professional career to fostering interfaith understanding, respect and cooperation.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

American Red Cross Seeks Image Rehab

By Marc Ballon

Howard Parmet, community outreach consultant for the American Red Cross (ARC) of Greater Los Angeles, wants to build bridges to a Jewish community. . .

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Five Jews Nab Nobel Science Wins

By Tom Tugend

When David J. Gross, a winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, was asked whether he was Jewish, he told a reporter, "What do you think? Of. . .

Thursday, October 7, 2004

Episcopal Church Mulls Divestment

By David Finnigan

Jewish leaders are displeased with another mainline Protestant church's call for divestment of church funds from companies doing business with. . .

Thursday, October 7, 2004

Episcopal Church Mulls Divestment

By David Finnigan

Jewish leaders are displeased with another mainline Protestant church's call for divestment of church funds from companies doing business with. . .

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Her Study of Death Gives Life Meaning

By Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychiatrist who wrote the pioneering work, "On Death and Dying," in 1969, was not Jewish. But Jewish survival through. . .

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Front-Line Valor

By Abraham Rabinovich

As a journalist in the Yom Kippur War, I came upon a Patton tank company refueling behind the Israeli lines in Sinai during the last week of fighting.

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Gerda Straus Mathan

Gerda Straus Mathan, a well-respected, Berkeley-based photographer of Jewish and other subjects who studied with Ansel Adams and lived for a time in. . .

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Jack Spitzer

"I have a philosophy very compatible with being a banker," he told a Seattle Times reporter in 1994. "I believe that people should pay their debts.. . .

Thursday, August 5, 2004

Rabbi Alfred Wolf

By Tom Tugend

Rabbi Alfred Wolf, who pioneered Jewish summer camps and the interfaith movement on the West Coast, died Aug. 1 at the age of 88. Throughout his. . .