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Empty nest, full fridge

My son Paul and his wife, Amber, were the original baby boomers, graduating from college in the ’80s, getting married and raising four children.

Back to the racquet

Fifteen years removed from championship racquetball, Jerry Hilecher decided to attempt a comeback in the sport that made him famous, put him in the conversation about the greatest players and earned him enshrinement in the USA Racquetball Hall of Fame.

Q&A with Rhoda Weisman — Jewish woman on top

Rhoda Weisman, executive director of the Professional Leaders Project, which is designed to engender and support a new generation of leaders in the Jewish community, talks about why the Jewish establishment needs to change, why young leaders are just as crucial as big donors and what it\’s like to be a woman at the top.

Sex at the Skirball

When sexy authors like Erica Jong and Jerry Stahl get together onstage, you expect fireworks. But when I drag my friend Kay up to Skirball for the Writers Bloc conversation, the room is too bright, and Kay tells me Jong\’s blue-framed eyeglasses and gold necklace make her come off more Carol Channing than \”sex goddess.\”

Israeli Superstars Rock the Diaspora

Each of the artists\’ songs have flooded the radio waves for nearly five decades, a soundtrack, of sorts, to Israel\’s many wars, casualties, celebrations, assassinations, and shifting moods — from hopeful to cynical and hopeful again.

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