In Between in Aurora

By Susan Esther Barnes
Published on July 25, 2012

‘That’s My Boy’ reviews:  They could have been worse

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 17, 2012

Bibi’s back on Time list of 100 most influential

Published on April 19, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made Time magazine's 2012 list of the 100 most influential people in the world for the second year in a row.

Syrian hourglass

By Steve Greenberg
Published on February 22, 2012

What is time anyway?

By Samira Asemanfar
Published on November 11, 2011

Top ten lists: Time, Barnes & Noble and Amazon

By Book Buzz
Published on December 14, 2008

Staying empathetic is a challenge during the race for college

Published on September 3, 2008

There is a new tension between my inherent self, and my impacted self. I am referring to what is simply known as the college process.

All the time in the world

By Mrs. Shoshana F
Published on July 21, 2008

Like ‘sands through the hourglass’ . . .

By Mrs. Shoshana F
Published on February 16, 2008

Full circle

By Rabbi Steven Weil
Published on October 12, 2006

My daughter, the animal lover, has a father who isn't. A hamster is the biggest pet I've gotten talked into so far. It lives in her room, and basically I wouldn't even know it was there except for one thing -- it's nocturnal.

Scheduled Relaxation

By JoAnneh Nagler
Published on June 15, 2006

As the years have gone by, I realize I'd just as soon be alone than continue to go through cycles of head-spinning effort with someone in exchange for a couple of moments of grace. So I don't do that anymore. And though this kind of spiritual honesty has created an ease in my nervous system (and a welcome death to that horrible intimate uncertainty of giving myself where it's not appreciated), I have to stop and wonder, have I become overworked and underplayed?

Seven-Year Switch

By Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Published on May 18, 2006

The benefits of the seven-year cycle are immeasurable. First, the land recovers the trace minerals it needs without using ammonium-nitrate-based fertilizers, which endangers the aquatic ecosystems. Second, the social structure is corrected every seven years; the differences between the classes are eroded and a sense of unity and togetherness takes over. Lastly, the seventh year provides an opportunity to stop the insane race for provisions, power and glory. It allows people to reconnect to the precious gifts of their family and their inner self.

Disengagement Dashes, Spurs Dreams

By Amos Oz
Published on May 18, 2006

For more than 30 years, the settlers' dream has choked the dream of free Israelis. The dream of the whole land of Israel and a messianic kingship drains daily the hope of being a people free to build a just society.

Singles - Operation: Picky

By Amy Klein
Published on April 20, 2006

In the life of every single girl, there comes a point where she has to look herself in the mirror and ask one very important question: "Do I look fat?" No, just kidding. That one we ask every day. The other miasma hanging over our heads like impending gray hair is this question: "Am I too picky?"

Bonding Over Torah

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 12, 2006

Generally taught once a year, with 10 to 20 girls enrolled per class, the program affords mothers and daughters special time together. It also introduces the girls to peers from other schools, allowing them to view bat mitzvah as a more universal experience.

Joyce Rabinowitz: A Type Like No Other

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 5, 2006

Joyce Rabinowitz, 76, is a volunteer Braille transcriber. She takes the printed word and, using a special computer program called Braille 2000, transforms it letter by letter into a prescribed set of dots that she saves to disk and gives to the Braille Institute. Each disk, with the help of an embossing machine, is used to produce a book written in raised dot text that a blind person can read with his or her fingers.

Unhappy New Year!

By Mark Miller
Published on January 5, 2006

OK, I'll be absolutely honest -- I spent this past New Year's Eve alone. Sure, I could have salvaged the situation with a round of frantic last-minute calling, but I never got around to it because I had to go and get into a fight. Fortunately, I was the only one who got hurt. You see, I picked a fight with myself. And on New Year's Eve day, no less. Almost out of nowhere and with virtually no warning, I started in on myself.

The Hebrascope: Signs of the Jewdiac

Published on January 5, 2006

Winning the Great Sponge Cake Battle

By Judy Bart Kancigor
Published on April 21, 2005

It's that time again. With Pesach here, it's time for my annual wrestling match with my nemesis, the dreaded sponge cake.

Principal for a Day, Lesson for a Lifetime

By Sarah Price Brown
Published on March 24, 2005

It's a lot more than Kenn Phillips could have bargained for when he accepted this gig as principal. Lucky for him, he doesn't have to come back tomorrow.

That's because Phillips isn't the real principal, but merely principal for a day. Phillips is among more than 200 professionals who arranged to shadow principals as part of a Los Angeles Unified School District effort to create alliances between businesses and schools.

The Good, the Bad and the Confusing

By Ed Shevick
Published on February 3, 2005

You cannot spend time and energy wondering where the years went. They are finished.

Seniors must concentrate on now. Enjoy life now. Do what you can within your abilities. Life is precious and good. Tomorrow will come at its own speed.

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By Mark Miller
Published on December 2, 2004

OK, so if you're rejected, perhaps your self-esteem takes a little hit. If you're rejected a lot, perhaps it gets bruised. And if you experience nothing but rejection, maybe your self-esteem ends up in the trauma ward of Love General Hospital. But enough about my pain.

No Rush

By Seth Menachem
Published on October 21, 2004

Lately it seems as if everyone I know is interested in me getting married. In fact, the person pressuring me the least is my girlfriend, Carrie.

Smarty Pants

By Abby Gilad
Published on October 14, 2004

Albert Einstein was a very smart man -- probably one of smartest people of all time.

Cleaning House

By Tom Teicholz
Published on September 30, 2004

As long as I focused on the task at hand, the time went by. Deciding on what was going to the auction house vs. what to charity, tossing out a bag of shoes that no one would take.

Pico’s Familiar Slice

By Julie G Fax
Published on August 5, 2004

The new Kosher Nostra is a tiny storefront on Pico Boulevard east of La Cienega Boulevard, just a block or two outside the beaten path of kosher establishments on Pico.

Fate With a Frummie

By Carin Davis
Published on July 8, 2004

Of all the Jew joints, in all the towns, in all the world, I walk into his. The artist formerly known as Jake didn't just go to my high school. I was a freshman cheerleader in a sophomore geometry class and Jake was the hot football player who sat next to me.

Balance Paramount to UPN Head Ostroff

By Soriya Daniels
Published on June 24, 2004

Dawn Ostroff, who in addition to being a religiously observant wife and mother, has worked her way up to a glamorous, powerful and exciting position: president of entertainment at UPN. Offering insight into the art of balancing home and work life and achieving one's professional dreams, she reminds us that it's never too late.

Sleep, Interrupted

By Tom Teicholz
Published on March 25, 2004

I remember, as a child, trying in vain to stay up to see the ball fall on New Year's Eve.

C’mon, a Bat Mitzvah Is, Like, So Uncool

By Marlene Heller
Published on March 11, 2004

"I don't want a bat mitzvah," she told her parents. "It's just for you and your relatives. You don't even need me there. So why don't you just throw your own party?"

Good Timing Lands Luck in Director’s Lap

By George Robinson
Published on September 18, 2003

Greg Pritikin's film takes place in a sort of every-suburb America of tract houses with manicured lawns and two-car garages, and is utterly devoid of anything to place it in historical time.

When Intelligence Falls Short

By Dore Gold
Published on September 11, 2003

The overwhelming evidence from statements by the PLO leadership was that it viewed the Oslo process as a tactical necessity to realize its ultimate strategic goal of recovering the entire territory of British Mandatory Palestine -- including the area of Israel.

Remembering Dad During Days of Awe

By Lisa J. Solomon
Published on September 4, 2003

This Rosh Hashanah brings to a close the year in which my father died. For this reason, and many others, I am grateful that the Jewish New Year is marked not by parties, but by days and weeks preceding and following of self-evaluation, quiet contemplation and prayers for blessings in the coming year.

A Sparkling Life

By David Geffner
Published on August 14, 2003

"Back in my grandfather's time, the diamond business was almost entirely Jewish," Aaron Furlong said, as he graded small stones. "Mazel was your word, and if you went against it, you were ostracized from the business."

Big Screen, Bigger Picture

By Rachel Brand
Published on July 31, 2003

From films on the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and civil war in Sudan to mental illness and homelessness in America, the series will allow viewers to take a second look from a Jewish perspective.

A Biblical ‘Song’ and Dance

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 5, 2003

Al Carmines' lush score provides the backdrop for "The Song of Songs," now at the Fountain, in which five dancers pair off while singers chant biblical text. Its creators hope to convey the essence of the ancient poetry, which describes God's love for the Israelites as the passion between a man and a woman.

Tough Answers

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on March 27, 2003

Without realizing his ideas would culminate in a book, Ed Feinstein began writing down his thoughts more than six years ago. He collected the most common questions children asked him -- most having to do with why bad things happen to good people.

Material Instincts

By Gaby Wenig
Published on March 27, 2003

Every day before Dina Goldstein (not her real name) leaves the house to take her two young children to day care and herself to work, she grabs two bagels and two boxes of orange juice. After buckling the kids into the car, she gives them the bagels and the juice, and they eat breakfast in the car on the way to school.

"I just don't have time to get them ready, myself ready and feed everyone before I leave the house," said Goldstein, who works as a religious day school teacher.

Like Goldstein, many women find maintaining a family and a job overwhelming.

Time to Go

By Abby Gilad
Published on December 26, 2002

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The Two Sides of the Street

By Eric Silver
Published on September 9, 1999

The only thing Jerusalem's Jewish and Arab shopping malls had in common when news broke last Friday of the Wye II deal was that no one was dancing in the streets. There was relief that something at last was about to move on the Israeli-Palestinian front, but it takes more than Madeleine Albright playing what she fetchingly called an American "handmaiden" to disperse the suspicions of half a century.

Living in the Here and Now

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on September 17, 1998

There is a difference between love of tradition and an obsessive habit of looking backward.

Torah Portion

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on August 13, 1998

We live in what writer Michael Ventura describes as "the age of interruption." There is a mismatch between "inner time" -- our personal sense of the rhythms of time -- and "outer time" -- the regimented time society imposes upon us.

Torah Portion

By Rabbi Ed Feinstein
Published on May 15, 1997

A fable: There was a king who collected jewels. One night, he dreamed that somewhere in the world, there was a ring with strange, magical powers: