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After School Is Prime Game Time for Kids of All Needs

Sharon Schatz Rosenthal August 17, 2006

\”I wanted to be a coach because I like sports,\” said Gaskin of her involvement with the Prime Time Games program.

The Pacific Palisades resident initially took on the responsibly to fulfill an outreach requirement for her bat mitzvah last spring. The experience has satisfied more than a ceremonial obligation.

\”I feel good because I\’m helping other people,\” Gaskin said.

The Bittersweet Meaning of Mud

Natalie Katz August 3, 2006

There is one program in particular that embodies all of the emotionalism and meaning of machon summer: Tza\’adah. Tza\’adah is a five-day, four-night overnight trip that takes campers far from the boundaries of camp and into the nature of Northern California, where we bond with friends, while experiencing the outdoors.

Summer Tours to Israel Rerouted, But Not By Much

Jewish Journal July 19, 2006

\”All of us that have kids in Israel are trying to make the best of the situation,\” said Jules Gutin, international director for USY, the youth arm of the Conservative movement, which has about 50 California teens in Israel this summer. \”We want the experience to be worthwhile and positive, as well as safe.\”

Sderot Attack Interrupts Villaraigosa’s Call

Marc Ballon July 6, 2006

On Thursday, July 6, at 9 a.m., Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a longtime supporter of Israel, was interrupted twice in attempts to place a call to Eli Moyal, mayor of the Israeli city of Sderot.

Performers Go It Alone and Like It That Way

Robert David Jaffee July 6, 2006

While each show follows its own trajectory, Chaiken points out that many Jewish-themed plays explore the issue of legacy. These performers describe conflicted feelings about their parents and the aspirations held out for them. As clichéd as such scenarios may seem, they speak to the pain and humor of family, a commonality that usually resonates with audiences.

Visit to Ethiopia Changes His Life

Marc Ballon May 25, 2006

\”John has given real leadership to the issue of Ethiopian Jewry,\” said Barry Shrage, president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, who earlier this year went to Ethiopia with Fishel and 100 American Jewish federation members. \”He\’s always been the first one to speak up and stir the conscience of the federation movement.\”

Wandering Jew – The Hit Parade

Wildman Weiner May 25, 2006

Here it is: 5,000 years after Moses wandered the Sinai, his people have finally found a home in Reseda, no less, at the Jewish Home for the Aging, the largest continuing residential care facility for the elderly in the Western United States. Yet while these Jews are no longer wandering, they are today wondering when the big simchah begins.

Kids Learn Burial Rites From Barney

Naomi Glauberman May 4, 2006

Michael Sachs remembers that he had initially thought that a program on death wasn\’t really important for people in their 40s.

\”But, in fact,\” he now says, \”I learned things I assumed I wouldn\’t need to think about for many years. I thought the program dealt with potentially distressing material in a nonthreatening, matter-of-fact fashion,\” he said.

‘Steins’ Skewers Simcha Rivalry

Tom Tugend April 27, 2006

\”Keeping Up With the Steins\” proves that you don\’t have to be Jewish to make a funny, insider Jewish film, or that if you grow up in the Bronx or went to school in North Hollywood, you become a Jew by osmosis.

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