Dead Lady’s Apartment

By Elliot Steingart
Published on March 8, 2013

Grandma and My Poor Kitten…

By Julia Bendis
Published on August 9, 2011

I speak Latin, therefore I speak English

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 26, 2011

Teriton tenants win battle to stay in historic apartment complex

By Jane Ulman
Published on December 25, 2008

After a three-year battle with alleged religious nonprofit Or Khaim Hashalom, tenants of the historic 28-unit Teriton Apartments in Santa Monica have won the right to remain in or return to their apartments for up to seven years under their former rent-controlled leases, according to a settlement made public Dec. 4.

AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Death and violence in the community (taboo?)

By Karmel Melamed
Published on May 2, 2008

Local Iranian Jewish community leaders recent incidents of violence among and the taboo on discussing the topic.

Teriton ‘landmark’ status upheld but residents still face eviction

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 21, 2007

A contested Santa Monica apartment complex owned by a Jewish nonprofit, which had hoped to raze the property in favor of a synagogue and condos for Middle East refugees, has had its landmark status upheld. But Teriton residents are still facing eviction.

Meditate on Shabbat in the Old City

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on March 3, 2005

Minutes from the Western Wall, brilliant bougainvillea grace the courtyard of an Old City apartment encased in Jerusalem's signature stone. This is where participants in Sarah Yehudit Schneider's women-only meditation retreats symbolically leave the rest of the week behind to embrace the healing, nurturing powers of Shabbat.

Immigrant Dreams

By Rockard J. Delgadillo
Published on May 13, 2004

On a recent trip to Manhattan, I traveled to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, which I'd heard about from friends in Los Angeles. The core of the museum is a restored 19th- century tenement house, which was a second point of landing, after Ellis Island, for a mixture of Italians, Germans and Eastern European and Sephardic Jews who made the hard crossing to America in search of better lives.

Arts

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 13, 1998

You could call "Slums of Beverly Hills" "The Jewish Joads."