July 15, 2008
New Yorker Obama Cover Sold Out In Pico-Robertson
That's the report I got from one rabid Hillary supporter who tried to buy the magazine.
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(lubavitch.com) Nadine Veibell is still looking for words to adequately capture her experience at the National Jewish Retreat over the Fourth of July weekend at a resort in Park City, Utah.
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July 10, 2008
Speakers At Bnai David-Judea
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July 2, 2008
Song of the Soul In Maryland
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 1 MD-Jewish-music-chrch
"Song of the Soul" Embraces Music, Social Action to Inspire Worship, Learning
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rabbi Gerry Serotta and Cantor Ramon Tasat have agreed to become the religious leaders of Shirat HaNefesh (Song of the Soul), an emerging Jewish congregation in southern Montgomery County, MD that seeks to express its faith through music, prayer, lifelong learning, and repairing the world (tikkun olam).
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July 1, 2008
Leaving Los Angeles
I’m not sure you can call this week’s Lives essay by Rachel Cline in the back of The New York Times magazine brilliant. Critiques of Los Angeles always seem hackneyed and trite to those who never lived there. Cline, however, captures the gothic feel of Los Angeles, how time slips away and one month becomes ten years overnight, leaving you with nothing but a few fragmented memories:
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June 23, 2008
More Los Angelenos Living Out Of Their Car
Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles in 1994, I started living in my car (from September until March 1995) to pursue my acting (which never took off).
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.
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June 22, 2008
LA Press Club Award Winners
Journalists of the year announced at last night's Los Angeles Press Club awards:
Big print: Melissa Healy, L.A. Times
Small print: Anat Rubin, Los Angeles Daily Journal
TV: Antonio Valverde, KMEX
Radio: Steven Cuevas, KPCC
Sports: TJ Simers, L.A. Times
Entertainment: John Horn, L.A. Times
Photojornalist: Robert Gauthier, L.A. Times
Designer: Kelli Sullivan, L.A. Times
Health: Charles Ornstein, L.A. Times
Online: Michael Collins and Denise Anne Duffield, EnviroReporter.com
Plus a gazillion more in a plethora of specific categories, dominated by the Times. Rip Rense won for his blog commentary on Cathy Seipp, Brad Greenberg won best blog for The God Blog and the OC Weekly's Navel Gazing won for group blog. Full list of winners (and some finalists and judges' comments) after the jump.
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Brad A. Greenberg, Top Blogger
I just got back from the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, downtown, where Brad A. Greenberg’s The God Blog, published here at JewishJournal.com, was named best individual weblog at the Fiftieth Anniversary Los Angeles Press Club awards banquet.
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June 20, 2008
Jewish LA Resources
Synagogues:
Aish HaTorah – Los Angeles
Anshe Emes
Bais Bezalel
Beth Jacob Cong of Beverly Hills
Beth Jacob of Irvine
Calabasas Shul
Cong. HaShalom
Congregation Joseph Jacob Abraham
Etz Jacob
Happy Minyan
Israeli Chabad
Jewish Learning Exchange
Jews for Judaism
Kehillas Yaakov
Knesset Israel Cong.
Merkaz Kollel
Mogen David
Pacific Jewish Center
Shaarei Tefila
Sharei Zedek
Torah Ohr
Toras Hashem
Torat Hayim
Westwood Kehilla
Young Israel of Century City
Young Israel of Hancock Park
Young Israel-Los Angeles
Young Israel-Northridge
Young Israel-Venice (Torah Learning Center)
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