Meditation 101

By Arielle Adelman
Published on April 25, 2013

L.A. deli watch: goodbye Junior’s, hello Lenny’s

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on January 27, 2013

Friendship Circle cyclists bound for N.Y.

Published on July 11, 2012

Traveling 3,279 miles in seven weeks — on bicycles? That’s the plan for 11 cyclists riding from Los Angeles to New York City this summer to raise money for Friendship Circle programs.

Nazis in the canyon

By Ryan E. Smith
Published on October 21, 2011

Go past Whoopi Goldberg’s house in Pacific Palisades, veer left at Bill Cosby’s, then curve your way around Steven Spielberg’s compound.

Pacific Palisades Chabad preschool denied lease extension

By Jane Ulman
Published on July 8, 2008

An eight-to-one vote by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Board -- along with a unanimous vote by the Conservancy Advisory Board -- last night soundly defeated Chabad of Pacific Palisades' appeal to temporarily extend the lease for its preschool site at Temescal Gateway Park from September 2008 through January 2009

Chabad finds possible solution to land-use problem in Pacific Palisades

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 25, 2008

The recent discovery of a long-overlooked legal document could substantially alter the situation, potentially allowing for a public street to be constructed that would lead directly to the entrance of the proposed site.

Chabad, Getty and neighbors square off over Palisades school plan

By Jane Ulman
Published on June 5, 2008

Everything went smoothly until April 2, when Getty Trust attorney Lori Fox informed Cunin that Chabad does not have the right to approach the building via a private Getty service road -- which Chabad disputes

The Getty Villa: The ‘Wow’ Factor

By Tom Teicholz
Published on February 2, 2006

The complaints may sound familiar: Jews were forgetting the ways of their forefathers. They could no longer read, write or speak Hebrew -- having turned to Greek instead. They were not observing the commandments, and could no longer say the prayers. The Sabbath was not being observed: Worse yet, young men were engaging in athletics on the Sabbath, throwing the discus or participating in wrestling competitions (the rabbis were particularly offended that wrestling was in the nude; but my guess is that the Jewish mothers weren't so crazy about all that fighting). There was even a reform movement led by rabbis, Jewish philosophers and Jews practicing new forms of Greek-leavened Judaism.

Billion-Dollar Plan on Line in Fight for 11th

By Idan Ivri
Published on November 25, 2004

In March, City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski will be termed out of office. Two well-connected front-runners, Bill Rosendahl and Flora Gil Krisiloff, are already battling for the prize of representing the quarter-million people -- including the sizable Jewish communities in places like Brentwood and Pacific Palisades.

Rainforest Mitzvah

By Rachael Brickman
Published on May 10, 2001

Last fall, for her bat mitzvah, Sarah Yamina Ifrah asked her guests to give her nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. She asked them to make donations to protect the rainforest.