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Healthy, kosher hot lunches rare in L.A. Jewish schools

On a Thursday this past March, at around 11:40 a.m., the alluring scent of chicken schnitzel – freshly breaded and pan-fried — wafted through the parking lot of New Community Jewish High School (NCJHS) in West Hills.

Groups praise child nutrition law, with qualms

Jewish groups praised the renewal of a law funding school meals, but expressed concern that it was financed in part by money designated for food stamps. The approval in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act means the bill — which had been subject to some last minute wrangling — is ready for enactment by the president. The bill extends for another ten years funding for school lunches and breakfasts for children from families that depend on the meals, estimated at 4.2 million households.

Food for Thought

The only thing worse than going to most luncheons is having to write about them — blow-by-blows of well-meaning, well-deserved appreciations and thank yous and speeches that go on too long.

Coffee Co-op Brews Mugs of Peace

In his three decades at the helm of the Thanksgiving Coffee Co. in Fort Bragg, California, Paul Katzeff has pioneered the process of buying coffee beans directly from Third World growers and funneling money back to them after sales to promote economic self-sufficiency and social justice.

But Katzeff had never helped Jewish coffee farmers, who don\’t usually figure in the ranks of those growers.

That changed with the recent release of Mirembe Kawomera, or \”Delicious Peace,\” a Fair Trade — and kosher — coffee produced by a new cooperative of Jewish, Muslim and Christian coffee farmers from the Mbale region of Uganda.

\”We think this coalition is unique in all of Africa,\” said coffee farmer J. J. Keki, leader of the 700-member Abayudaya Ugandan Jewish community that is at the core of the project.

The Circuit

About 900 supporters of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) filled a Century Plaza Hotel ballroom on Dec. 7 for its 90th-year bash, an anniversary evening capped off with a masterful performance by crooner Lou Rawls.

Bazel Draws Sabra Artists to Encino

Hanging out with a group of Israeli artists at a hot new cafe in Encino may not be the same as sitting on Dizengoff in Tel Aviv, but the conversation is as close as it gets for Los Angeles.

Leonard Green

Leonard I. Green, founding partner of the West Coast\’s largest leveraged buyout firm and board chairman of the Los Angeles Opera, died on Oct. 25 following complications from heart surgery in Venice, Italy, where he was vacationing. He was 68.

Community Briefs

Instead of debating the finer points of the Oslo peace accords or discussing the impact of Sept. 11 on Jewish America, Democrats for Israel-Los Angeles (DFI-LA) will focus their attention instead on enjoying some kosher food and congenial conversation at their Summer Garden Party on Aug. 25 from 4-7 p.m.

Varsity Blues

As the summer draws to a close, Jason Kahan feels anxious and excited: soon his firstborn, Aron, is to begin his freshman year of college at UC Santa Barbara.

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