A feast for Mollie Pier

Published on November 29, 2012

In 1989, Mollie Pier co-founded Project Chicken Soup (PCS), a nonprofit organization that makes and delivers free kosher food to Angelenos living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses. Today, at 92, she still volunteers, spending eight hours a month in the kitchen and calling recipients when their meals are ready.

Israel for a Cure participates in AIDS Walk

By Ryan Torok
Published on October 17, 2012

Israel and American men and women of all ages, representatives of Israeli and Jewish community organizations and others turned out to walk with Israel for a Cure, one of approximately 1,700 teams that participated in the AIDS Walk Los Angeles on Oct. 14.

African AIDS experts visit, learn from Israel

Published on October 11, 2010

A delegation of prominent HIV/AIDS doctors from across East Africa is visiting Israel to expand medical partnerships and benefit from Israel's expertise.

Cedars-Sinai studies liver transplants for HIV patients

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on December 18, 2008

Cedars-Sinai is one of only 11 hospitals in the country and two in the state participating in the study

Malibu camp offers respite and community for kids with HIV

By Danielle Berrin
Published on November 19, 2008

" . . . This camp, this organization [Hollywood Heart] gives me true happiness.I get back so much more in ways that are impossible to quantify, in ways I couldn'tget from anything material or anything else I've ever done . . . "

AIPAC, Persian tragedy, Christian support for Israel

Published on June 19, 2008

" . . . The deceased is gone. Yet the living . . . [are] left sinning, hurting, reeling, and lost. I only hope and pray that our people can find ourselves again, and learn from this. It is time to stop, and put an end to this vicious cycle. . . . ."

Albert Winn’s photography captures the intertwining influences of Judaism and illness

By Nick Street
Published on June 5, 2008

"A funny thing happens when you become ill. Even though you're the person who's sick, you have to be a caregiverin a way. You can't just dump information on people."

Reform rabbinical school teaches students to reach out to HIV/AIDS patients

By Nick Street
Published on June 5, 2008

HIV/AIDS education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) means "making sure rabbinical students don't leave campus before they hone their skills to help people in need," said Michele Prince, director of the Kalsman Institute of Judaism and Health at HUC-JIR.

Project Chicken Soup brings comfort by the bowl

By Rachel Heller
Published on June 5, 2008

The notes are short, direct and never signed. They come from all over Los Angeles, from the South Los Angeles tenements to the San Fernando Valley suburbs. Their authors differ in age, ethnicity and religion, but have at least one thing in common: They all live with HIV/AIDS.


Their gratitude is directed at Project Chicken Soup, an L.A.-based nonprofit whose volunteers gather twice a month to cook nutritious, kosher meals and deliver them, free of charge, to the doors of clients across the city.

The over-50 crowd relearns the ‘facts of life’

Published on June 5, 2008

While HIV can pose health problems at any age, there is additional risk of having the virus as an older person. People 50 and older have less vigorous immune systems, and studies report that a majority of older adults have at least one or more chronic, age-related condition such as diabetes, arthritis or heart disease

HIV/AIDS impacts the vulnerable across the city, up the state, over America and around the globe

Published on June 5, 2008

Worldwide, there are more than 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and the epidemic continues to expand.

By Alex Dobuzinskis, Contributing Writer

Published on June 5, 2008

"Africa isn't something far awayand distant anymore. It's something very personal, and it's somethingthat you can't avoid."

Shoah lessons drive curriculum

By Julie G Fax
Published on October 5, 2006

Community Briefs.

Phone call sparks memory of young AIDS victim

By Gloria Baran
Published on September 14, 2006

Ariel Jacobs had been jaundiced at birth, because of a blood-type incompatibility with her mother, and required a transfusion. As a result of contaminated blood, she contracted HIV, which later developed into AIDS.

Lift The Ban on Gay Blood Donors

By Lisa Hurwitz
Published on March 2, 2006

When students arrived at Milken Community High School on the morning of Jan. 10, they were confronted by a large banner reading: "Did you know homosexual males cannot give blood?" That was the start of a student-led Equal Blood Campaign to press the FDA to lift its blanket ban on all gay blood donors.

It’s a Full Plate in Nourishing the Sick

By Phil Shuman
Published on January 9, 2003

Bob S. insists that his mother back in Virginia made the best chicken soup ever, but he's willing to admit the homemade version delivered to his Van Nuys apartment is a close second.

The delivery is part of the mission of Project Chicken Soup, an all-volunteer group that cooks, packages and personally delivers kosher meals twice a month to patients living with HIV and AIDS. It might be a chicken breast or a casserole, along with the soup, salad, fruit, dessert or even a protein drink.

Chicken Soup and a Mother’s Journey

By Ellie Kahn
Published on April 20, 2000

When I'm 79, I want to be Mollie Pier.

Groundbreaking Cinema

By Curt Schleier
Published on October 28, 1999

In "Hit and Runway," a straight Italian-American naif teams up with a gay Jew to write a screenplay. In "Aimee & Jaguar," a Jewish woman and a Nazi's wife begin a torrid affair. In "Man is a Woman," a gay man marries a woman, a Yiddish singer, who has never known a man.