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Food prices squeeze Israel’s needy

As the price of food staples have risen, Israel\’s poor and the nonprofit groups that serve them have been hardest hit, with some impoverished Israelis skipping meals to pay their monthly bills

Talmudic Tax Write-Off

Few people are eager to pick fights with the IRS. Michael Sklar, now well into his second voluntary tax lawsuit, is definitely an exception.

Sklar is an Orthodox father with several children in Jewish day school. His courtroom quest: to establish religious school costs as tax deductions.

Material Instincts

Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.

\”I just don\’t have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house,\” said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.

Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.

New Century Poses Challenge

One hundred years ago, when Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\’s predecessor, Kaspare Cohn Hospital, opened its doors with 12 beds as Los Angeles\’ first Jewish hospital, such medical staples as penicillin and insulin remained to be discovered.

Home Is Where the Shul Is

As Los Angeles housing prices continue their upward climb, members of Orthodox and Conservative communities are having a tougher time finding affordable houses to buy within walking distance of their synagogues — a must for observant Jews who don\’t drive on Shabbat.

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