We have sunk so low as human beings. Wish I could start my own society!

By Julia Bendis
Published on July 20, 2011

Pray with your feet, end genocide

By Rachel Heller
Published on March 23, 2010

As a high school freshman, Katie Hoselton decided to join an extracurricular club called “End Worldwide Genocide.” She didn’t know much about the issue at first but read up on conflicts in Eastern Europe and Africa and became a passionate activist for the cause.

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks Dec. 6 - 12: Poetry of La Norte, love and latkes

By Dikla Kadosh and Lilly Fowler
Published on December 5, 2008

Holidays not on the calendar

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on February 22, 2007

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on October 5, 2006

7 days in the Arts

‘Sex and the City’ Workout

By Julie M. Brown
Published on July 19, 2006

I joined my first gym while in college. My friends and I signed up for a three-month trial together, intending to rid ourselves of the proverbial freshman 10 -- the end result of late-night doughnut runs.

Singles - Walk Out the Door

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on May 18, 2006

Before I found my incredible guy, I was engaged to someone whom I went out with for two and half years -- probably two years too long. Of course, after we broke up, everyone I knew said that he was just "OK" and that I deserved someone better.

Fit L.A. - Let’s Take a ‘J-Walk’ Around the Block

By Norma Zager
Published on January 19, 2006

After schlepping 40 years in the desert, it's hard to imagine a CD to exercise by coming from a people who have harbored a subconscious distrust of walking. But with my daughter's upcoming nuptials, my unending kvetch about fitting into the dress won out over my skepticism.

Tightrope of Life

By Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski
Published on October 6, 2005

In the days of communism's fierce grip on the Soviet Union, there lived a Chasidic Jew named Reb Mendel Futerfas. Reb Mendel repeatedly put his life at risk with his efforts to promote Jewish education behind the Iron Curtain and for some 14 years was incarcerated in prisons and labor camps for his "crime" of teaching Torah.

Fox Takes ‘Walk’ Down Provocative Path

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 24, 2005

Israeli director Eytan Fox makes films that open on a rousing patriotic note of rugged Israelis battling the enemy, before gradually exposing the chinks in his country's macho culture.

I Love a Parade

By Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark
Published on September 2, 2004

What do we have in Judaism that comes closest to a military parade? It occurred to me that every Sabbath morning, when we take out the Torah and walk around the sanctuary, we are actually simulating a military parade. No guns, not tanks, no jet planes to impress onlookers.

Preschoolers Relay for Friend

By Adam Wills
Published on June 10, 2004

Temple Ahavat Shalom parents and preschoolers strolled around America's Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College on Jan. 27, waiting for Alexa Weiner to arrive for her fifth birthday party. When they learned that the event had been canceled due to a family emergency, none of them could have imagined that the bright, spirited birthday girl was at Childrens Hospital, fighting for her life as she awaited emergency surgery for stage-three brain cancer.

Bus Girl

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on April 15, 2004

The fictional Carrie Bradshaw saw her image on a bus placard because she wrote a popular sex column. But Carol Taubman sees her image go by each day on the side of MTA buses for a very different reason.

A Class Trip to Remember

By Andrea Adelson
Published on April 1, 2004

Next month Sevy will relive, in part, his parents' journey with his 18-year-old son, Nadav, as they traverse the 2-mile walk from the so-called "death gate" of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp to the International Monument of Holocaust Victims of the Birkenau death camp.

Nadav is one of about 23 students committed to a three-week senior class trip planned for the fourth graduating class of Irvine's Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School. Their sobering itinerary includes Auschwitz, Schindler's factory and the Warsaw ghetto, followed by Israel's modern cities, historical sights and natural beauty.

Fearing Fear

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 3, 2002

My husband, Larry, and I had been training, or so I thought, for the Avon Breast Cancer Three-Day, a 60-mile walk in from Santa Barbara to Malibu last October.

But now I realize that we were really training for a grave new world -- for when an act of God, or more likely an act of godlessness, blindsides Los Angeles, shutting down our streets and transportation systems.