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ruth
Find your inner cheesecake
David Suissa
May 25, 2007
What I did not expect was to get a phone call from one of the city\’s illustrious Orthodox rabbis defending the magical, mystical, community-building power of … the cheesecake.
Shavuot – Ruth’s Tale Provides Contemporary Guide
David Brandes
June 9, 2005
Rabbi Levi Meier is fond of saying that we are all on a journey, whether or not we know it. Of course, he is referring to life itself, and in his latest book, Meier illuminates that journey by looking at the compelling and sometimes tragic life of the biblical figure of Ruth. His book, \”Second Chances: Transforming the Bitterness of Hope and the Story of Ruth,\” is at once a rich source of biblical scholarship and a guide designed to help readers deal with their own personal difficulties.
The Third Generation
Ruth Stroud
May 8, 1997
As the son of Holocaust survivors, Adi Liberman grew up, as many second-generation children did, with a sense of profound loss. He knew that he had no grandparents, that his mother, a hidden child during the war, had lost her parents at age 5, and that his father\’s father died before the war and his father\’s mother in Auschwitz.
L.A.’s New Leaders
Ruth Stroud
May 8, 1997
If you\’re a young Jewish leader who would like to know more about Los Angeles civic life, or if you\’re a young civic leader who wants to be more in step with the Los Angeles Jewish community, the New Leaders Project might have a place for you. NLP, sponsored in Los Angeles by the Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council, is currently seeking applications for its fourth class.
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