Getting to know my dad, again

By Gary Wexler
Published on June 14, 2011

My 93-year-old father emerged as a different person when my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s five years ago. He became independent, assertive, interested and engaging. When my mother died in October, he even became a bit spiritual. He’s certainly not the exhausted father with whom I grew up, who often didn’t know what to say to me. As a teenager and young adult, I never thought we would have much of a relationship. But now, as I approach 60 and he nears 94, the engagement between us has blossomed, as it has with my brother and all our children. The relationship he now has with my wife has become his most significant. She handles his money.

Dancing on edge of memories in former café space

By Gary Wexler
Published on March 30, 2011

There is a tiny two-block alleyway in West Los Angeles that runs on a diagonal from South Barrington Avenue east to Pico Boulevard. The backs of small industrial buildings border one side. On the other, a chain link fence shields a packinghouse or shipping service. To look at it, you would never call it the street of dreams or the isle of atmospheric romantic intrigue. You certainly would never envision it as the pulsating focus of a once-young, vibrant new generation of American Jews animated by the lightning victory of Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War.

‘Gary Wexler Is Miserable’

By David Suissa
Published on August 30, 2007

What did Gary Wexler, do? He took out a full-page ad in the local trade publication, Adweek, put a picture of himself in the middle of the ad, and did something rarely seen in the business.

He spoke the naked truth.

The boldfaced headline read: "Gary Wexler Is Miserable." The rest of the ad explained why.

Craig Prizant, philanthropreneurship and evangelicals

Published on March 15, 2007

Letters to the Editor

I rode on the wild side—when road rage met anti-Semitism

By Gary Wexler
Published on January 11, 2007

On the way to Los Angeles International Airport this afternoon, I thought I was about to be murdered.

Letters to the Editor

Published on August 17, 2006

Letters to the Editor.

Don’t Discard Liberal Jewish Groups

By David Pine
Published on August 3, 2006

Gary Wexler levels the charges that Americans for Peace Now (APN), along with other organizations associated with American Jewish liberals, are obsolete. He writes that
we are ignoring the "real" threats facing Israel such as those emanating from Syria and Iran, that we are out of touch with the mainstream for questioning the efficacy of Israel's current military actions in Lebanon and Gaza, that we are wrong to believe a peace partner exists on the other side and that our "knee-jerk" reactions and inability to recognize and react to the redefining of American Jewish support for Israel will prove to be our ultimate downfall.

Visit to Another Israel

By Gary Wexler
Published on February 5, 2004

It's time we stop kidding ourselves that Israel has survived well through the last three years. The country is unraveling at the seams.

Professional-Lay Relations Need Examining

By Gary Wexler
Published on October 17, 2002

When people query me as to who our clients are, if the person is Jewish, I often answer, "Half our clients are Jewish organizations. And the other half are people who treat us really nicely."

Funding Jerusalem

By Gaby Wenig
Published on May 2, 2002

So what does it take to get a charity started in Los Angeles? How can a project be incubated just enough to get people excited so that they will one day open their checkbooks and start signing?

A Lesson in Friendship

By Gary Wexler
Published on November 23, 2000

Now I understood why Reuven was able to bring me into the neighborhood, into his home, into his shul, invite people to meet me, and then into his yeshiva. No one would question the actions of an ilui. I further understood his ability to teach me, to move so adroitly into the issues of my world and professional endeavors while we were in London.

My relationship with Reuven has continued to grow through further visits, meals with my wife and his wife, and through study. He has brought me as his study partner into all the great yeshivas of Jerusalem. He wants me to see them all.