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‘Prime Ministers’ author to speak in Beverly Hills
Ambassador Yehuda Avner, who served as a diplomat, speechwriter and prime ministerial adviser in Israeli governments from the 1950s to the 1990s, will speaking this weekend at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills. Avner wrote “The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership” (The Toby Press, LLC, 2010), a 700-page opus based on notes he took while serving as adviser or secretary to five prime ministers. The book, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards in 2010, is now being made into two motion pictures.
Peres and Perez seal Israel-Latino friendship
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills - DONE!
Insights for investors from one who knows firsthand
Rebecca Rothstein, a managing director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Beverly Hills, focuses on helping high net worth and ultra-high net worth investors with estate, tax and financial planning. But she hasn’t always been a Barron’s top 100 financial advisor. A high-school dropout who went on to get her GED and an associate’s degree in design and merchandising, Rothstein started out as a buyer for the Robinson’s department store chain but left the job because it required too much time on the road away from her four young sons.
A Conversation with Brandi Glanville
Giving hope and help to L.A.’s Iranian Jews
Earlier this year, after nearly two decades of providing counseling and psychological help to local Iranians for free or at reduced rates, Shadee Toomari, a local Iranian-Jewish licensed clinical psychologist, formally established the community’s first nonprofit mental health treatment clinic.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills UPDATE
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Spitting on Russell Armstrong’s Grave
Berman takes in $1.6 million at Beverly Hills fundraiser
Real Housewives of BH: Is that Beverly Hills or Botox Heaven?
A Conversation with Dana Wilkey
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Dana’s Fiancé Has An Attitude
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills High School Recap
Iranian-Jewish community split on Namvar sentencing
Iranian Jew Simin has a passion for fashion
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are Back and Completely Disgusting
Watching Glenn Beck from Beverly Hills
When Glenn Beck took the stage on the evening of Aug. 21, in front of a crowd of 3,000 in the Roman-era amphitheater in Caesarea, he smiled.
World Trade Center relic installed at Beverly Hills’ 9/11 Memorial Garden
Berman vs. Sherman?
Over the past two months, political observers have been keeping close watch on draft maps being released by California’s new, citizen-led redistricting panel. Though Jewish leaders haven’t been actively lobbying the Citizens Redistricting Commission on behalf of the community (see sidebar)...
Hebrew lit club agrees to disagree
Although it feels like an art gallery — with its dark wood floors, white walls and oversize paintings — this Beverly Hills condo is home to another kind of art for the evening. Between a cream-colored leather sofa and a dining table obscured by colorful appetizers are two rows of chairs. On many of the chairs, Hebrew books sit waiting. “Shalom aleichem [peace be upon you],” each person said in greeting as they entered.
Hiding in Beverly Hills
Why would a wealthy Russian businessman with ties to his country’s notorious ultranationalist party known for its anti-American and anti-Semitic positions flee to Beverly Hills? Ashot Egiazaryan, the fugitive Russian who can afford to go just about anywhere, isn’t talking.
Hatzolah volunteer confronted
A Beverly Hills Police officer pointed his gun at a Jewish emergency medical technician who was responding to a car crash on Olympic Boulevard on Jan. 20. The EMT, a volunteer with the Hatzolah of Los Angeles Jewish emergency rescue team, was rushing to the scene of a two-car collision in his own car, which bore flashing, roof-mounted red-and-white lights and was blaring a siren.
Iranian Nessah Synagogue celebrates 30 years and honors founders
Ronni Chasen: A Hollywood murder mystery
It was fitting, in that Hollywood way, that the last time Ronni Chasen was seen alive was at a movie premiere. She was there in all her usual glory — stylish and smiling, effortlessly working the room, among friends.
Young Philanthropists Host Haiti Fundraiser
Los Angeles residents Alexis Alagem, 25, and Jackie Winnick, 27, pulled together the support of their social networks at a private back lounge of Bar 210/Plush in Beverly Hills the night of March 12, as a fundraiser for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s (JDC) relief program in Haiti.
Hanukkah on “Rodeo Drive”: Young Iranian Jews aid worthy causes and party in style!
Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel gets Israeli flair
With 200 guest rooms, the Peninsula -- one of an international group of five luxury hotels owned by Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. -- is certainly not the largest hotel in the city, but it hosts more than its share of celebrities and A-list events.
California Jewish Voters Guide: Views on state and local issues split on party lines
The presidential race makes the headlines, but there's lots of emotion, energy and money left for the 12 statewide propositions on the California ballot. As in McCain-Obama contest, Jewish voters are sharply split between the Democratic/liberal majority and the Republican/conservative minority.
Streisand opens Obama fundraiser with Talmud lesson
Lesbian couple weds in Jewish ceremony in Beverly Hills
Amid a crush of photographers, a handful of largely drowned-out protesters, and hundreds of supporters tossing rose petals, Diane Olson and Robin Tyler stood under a chuppah on the Beverly Hills Courthouse steps on Monday evening to become one of the first lesbian couples to legally marry in California.
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Death and violence in the community (taboo?)
Local Iranian Jewish community leaders recent incidents of violence among and the taboo on discussing the topic.
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews -- Jimmy Delshad, former Mayor of Beverly Hills
‘Wedding planner to the stars’ focuses on details, details and also details
Jackie and Adam Sandler. Shaunie and Shaquille O'Neal. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. Heidi Klum and Seal. Jami Gertz and Tony Ressler. Janice and Billy Crystal. When these high-profile pairs have a star-studded soirĂ?Â(c)e to host -- anything from a wedding to a bridal shower, a bar mitzvah to a birthday or business bash -- they all leave the preparations to one party planner: Mindy Weiss, owner of the Beverly Hills-based Mindy Weiss Party Consultants. But if you think her job is just about selecting flowers and ordering cakes, you're sorely mistaken.
Nessah reaches out to young Iranian professionals
Nessah made history five years ago when it became the first Iranian synagogue in the world to embrace congregational membership.
RIP Merv Griffin
Briefs: Delshad to Beverly Hills: Just say 'no' to investment in Iran; Survivors still fighting Germany for reparations
Community briefs.
It’s official: Jimmy Delshad elected new mayor of Beverly Hills
"I feel blessed to have been chosen by the people of Beverly Hills," Delshad said in a phone interview. "As a Jewish youngster in Iran, I was a second-class citizen and kept running into closed doors."
Shutting Jewish Mouths
The rule that American Jews don't have the right to speak out since they don't live in Israel and won't suffer the consequences of their ideas has visceral appeal but has proved, thankfully, unenforceable.
Getting kicked out of shul
Biston's public airing of his story and his threat to file suit have brought to light a number of complaints from others who also have been asked to leave Beth Jacob. They claim the rabbi is autocratic and mercurial and bars people who don't fit his image of an appropriate congregant.
A kosher steakhouse for BH? Well done!
New York's upscale The Prime Grill, coming to Beverly Hills this week, isn't your father's glatt kosher restaurant.For one thing, it's a high-end steak house that also specializes in sushi. For another, the management expects it to become a destination for high-powered meetings and high-profile celebrities.They go so far as to claim that the opening here means Los Angeles is finally catching up to New York in the Jewish culinary big leagues.
Pharmacy under attack after anti-Semitism charges
The notion may sound unlikely, but a widely circulated e-mail bearing the subject heading "Druggist won't do business with 'Jews or Jew Doctors'" sparked concern and outrage in recent weeks as it landed in hundreds of computer mailboxes across the country. After all, the source -- a Jewish woman in Florida -- appeared to be without hostile intent, and the allegation, targeting the Wilshire Roxbury Medical Pharmacy at 436 North Roxbury Drive, allegedly had been vetted.First, to put rumors to rest, the charge is definitely false. The pharmacist/owner, who preferred not to have his name published, is Jewish, as is his assistant. They cater to Jewish customers as well as Jewish doctors.
A Hole In One for a Good Cause
Bram Goldsmith, chair of City National Corporation, and his wife, Elaine, long-time supporter of the arts, donated $5 million to the future Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, with the result that a 500-seat theater will become the Goldsmith Theater.
Community Briefs
Community Briefs; Displaced Gaza Resident Raises $5,000 in L.A.; Father, Daughter Each Earn Book Awards; Preteen Ambassadors From Beverly Hills.
‘Top Gun’ Lawyer Aims to Aid Likud
Born into a strongly Democratic family but later a founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Berman, at 51, is a man of strong physique and opinions.
"I am fed up with intermarriage and with rabbis who reach out to gay and intermarried couples," he said during an interview in his spacious Sunset Boulevard office.
Spectator - Musical Mystery of Letters
Guitarist and composer Adam Del Monte has the musical sophistication and spiritual depth to explore Jewish mysticism beyond the trendy or superficial.
The Circuit
Circuit Updates.
Sen. Clinton Talks Forgiveness in L.A.
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about forgiveness at Yom Kippur services in Beverly Hills, closing out what became a safe and reflective High Holidays for the Southern California Jewish community.
MATCH Puts Giving in Students’ Hands
At Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, a unique program is giving teenagers the opportunity to put those lessons to work by serving as board members of their own philanthropic foundation.
Eulogies: Dr. Robert W. Brooks
Dr. Robert W. Brooks, an interna-tionally renowned mathematician who made aliyah with his family from Los Angeles in 1995, died of a heart attack on Sept. 5, at the age of 49.
Tall
Full of drama, ancient wisdom and suspense, "Storahtelling" is live revival bibliodrama, and it's coming to a synagogue in Beverly Hills.
This Shabbat, Amichai Lau-Lavie -- Jewish educator, descendant of 35 generations of rabbis, and Jewish visionary -- will employ a revolutionary approach to celebrate Judaism: Lau-Lavie and his group of traveling Jewish thespians, will take to the Jewish stage (the bimah, really), to perform Jewish revival theater.
Are You There, God?
While the pain of the Sept. 11 attacks still churns like the smoke and dust that continue to rise out of Ground Zero, eight weeks has done something to begin our healing process.
Some of the rawness of our national wound is beginning to abate, allowing us to use the clarity and insight of the still-sharp lens of grief to encounter the big questions about God and humanity that the terrorists threw into our faces.
The questions, of course, are hardly new: How can we square the lethal expression of mass evil with our notion of a compassionate God? Were the attacks the hand of God, God's withdrawal from humanity, or simply the nature of God's universe?
Menkes’ ‘Divorce’
Dr. John Menkes' "Lady Macbeth Gets a Divorce" at the Beverly Hills Playhouse is a witty and diverting drawing-room comedy that elicits something most sitcoms don't: real laughs.
Rebel, Rebel
Rabbi Jonathan Aaron of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills knows as much about show business as shul business.
The 39-year-old rabbi, a former actor and managing director of the Open Forum Theatre in Connecticut, is the author of a new musical, "Hyrcanus," an intergenerational production of the temple's Emanuel Arts Center.
Crowning Achievements
The jewelry Lily Rachel Kaufman creates has been turning up everywhere.
No Longer Alone
Murray Cohen and his wife of 52 years, Lillian, were both Holocaust survivors. Since Lillian's death nine months ago, Murray spends most of his days inside. Without the attention of his daughter Barbara, Murray would hardly eat, shower or speak.
Singing the Composer’s Praises
"Air Force One." "Basic Instinct." "Poltergeist." "Planet of the Apes."
Just a sampling of the more than 175 motion pictures bearing the distinctive imprimatur of master film composer Jerry Goldsmith, (left) who was recently honored by the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. The Regent Beverly Wilshire reception was part of the Chamber's 75th-anniversary Diamond Jubilee.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills?
Ronald Weiner sits on a bench in a serene Beverly Hills park on a perfect, sunny day, filled with rage and frustration. He's shaking, his fingers tremble, and his voice cracks with every other sentence. The source of his anger is the city in which he sits. For the past year, Beverly Hills has thwarted Weiner's efforts to build a large senior-housing project on property he owns.
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