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yeLAdim
August 27, 2008
Back to school, Yiddish for kids
Do your grandparents ever talk in Yiddish when they don't want you to know what's going on?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Let the games begin!
The games bring together athletes from more than 200 countries to compete for national glory and gold, silver and bronze medals -- in a variety of sports (no, shopping is not one of them -- I checked).
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Happy Birthday, USA! Sweet dreams with the Shema
We celebrate the 232nd birthday of the United States of America on July 4. Between noshing on barbecue and watching fireworks, test how well you know early American history. Circle the right answer for the following questions but read carefully -- some might be a bit tricky.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
The greatest gift of all—and Bunnies!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Get ready to sing . . . Hatikvah!
In 1886, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia, wrote the words to Israel's national anthem, "Hatikvah." Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, wrote the melody
Thursday, March 27, 2008
New Pesach haggadah is off the page!
Kids page.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Purim in the produce section
Purim festival suggestions.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Election 101—who is your choice?
This time of year, we know that you are seeing signs everywhere about the upcoming presidential election. So many people, so many numbers; we think you should know what it all means.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
No matter how you say it
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Golems, schlemiels, reporter for a day
We're getting into the "spirit" of things this month. YeLAdim loves a good scary story, so we asked our friends at the Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles to suggest some of their favorites.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
YeLAdim yaks with Disney’s Adam Bonnett
How cool would it be to pick what everyone else gets to watch on television?
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Happy New Year—shofar so good!
Kid's page.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
You get when you give
Kids
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Off the page, holidays not on the calendar, cool quiz
Kids page.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Hey, hey! We’re the SqueeGees!
Kids page.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Curtain call; More holidays not on the calendar
Kids page.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Holidays not on the calendar
Thursday, March 30, 2006
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World
Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary
Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited
I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.
Calendar
Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs
Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity
Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.
Opinion
Joon
Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always
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