Netanyahu injures leg playing soccer with Jewish, Arab youth

Published on June 11, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu injured his leg during a soccer match with Jewish and Arab youth.

Exploding Knives, and Other Hazards of Kashering

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on March 25, 2009

Let me just start by admitting that I probably didn’t really need to put the knife directly on my burner. But it was the first time in a very long time I was kashering anything, and I had conflicting guidance from my rabbi and my mother, and I thought I needed to drop a hot metal object into my hot water urn to make it kosher for Pesach (I was totally wrong. Do not try it at home.).

Letters

Published on May 26, 2005

Letter to the Editor.

Set, Spike, Kiss

By Carin Davis
Published on October 14, 2004

I'll never play the violin in high heels again. OK, I'll be back in sticks in six weeks, and I never played the fiddle. But I did play an important game of volleyball.

Once Upon a Mime

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 19, 2004

Once upon a time, Joel ben Izzy worked as a mime -- until he injured his hip in a car crash.

Then he became a storyteller who lost his voice.

"If I could market irony, I'd be rich," said the wry, rueful performer.

Ben Izzy -- who eventually regained his speech -- recounts the journey in a moving new book, "The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness" (Algonquin, $22.95). Woven into the memoir are 15 multicultural folk tales, including the Talmudic legend of how King Solomon achieved wisdom after temporarily losing his empire.

A Teen Spared From Terror

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on November 27, 2003

Hilla Hayo, 16, was not a victim of the Dolphinarium attack in Tel Aviv on June 1, 2001 -- but she could have been. The teenager, who, along with four classmates, spent 10 days at New Community Jewish High School in West Hills this October as part of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation's Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership, canceled her plans at the last minute the night of the explosion. She and her pal were planning to go to Pacha, the Dolphinarium's neighboring club whose patrons were also struck when the bomb was detonated.

"My best friend got sick and we decided not to go," remembered Hayo.