September 17, 2011
The Polite Homeless
I'm seeing something new and disturbing in Pico-Robertson. Until now, all the homeless I saw had mental problems and drug and alcohol abuse issues. Now even some of the polite and respectable are homeless.
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham
November 13, 2009
Survival Kits For The Homeless
I'm curious how much good survival kits will do as most homeless are mentally ill? If they had a clue about how to take care of themselves, they wouldn't be homeless?
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham
June 19, 2008
Tough Love For The Homeless
Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, left, of B'nai David-Judea Synagogue in Los Angeles, chats with Bobby Alexander, who is homeless, on Pico Boulevard. Kanefsky, 44, helps the homeless, elderly and poor of the Pico-Robertson district.
Helping the poor of L.A.'s Pico-Robertson district is a good deed and a holy act, a rabbi says. But he knows he needs boundaries.
They began lining up in front of the synagogue well before sunrise.
The homeless, elderly and poor of the Pico-Robertson district — 100 of them — held up white registration cards as they shuffled through the doors of B'nai David-Judea.
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham
At 11:45 a.m. (April 10, 2008) as I was preparing to snag my beauty rest in the sun, I got a message that I could get a free lunch at a local shul that feeds the homeless. It seemed like a good deal at the time. I had no idea it was going to be a fleishig (meat) meal.
Filed under Homeless by Levi Ben Avraham