Pamela Taylor, an evacuee of the Caldor fire in South Lake Tahoe, prepares apples and honey for the Jewish New Year in Calabasas. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) This is how you ring in the Jewish New Year in the middle of a wildfire. The rabbi still wears white, […]
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Why everyone should have a Jewish mother in their lives
Then there is our reputation for smothering our children with affection, protection and interference… long after they have become adults and left home (usually, not surprisingly, for somewhere far away). Noemie, a former GP, mother of four daughters and a very young and glam grandmother to boot, chuckles at such […]
‘Hated woman of color’ and ‘white Jewish guys’ in race for clerk
Brenda Forman got one thing right. She married well, politically speaking. When the former Brenda Dixon married Howard Forman, her predecessor as Broward’s elected court clerk, she took a name that was magic with county voters since the 1970s. If you had to choose one name that has been synonymous […]