Phyllis Karp: My Jewish Home Story
28.08.2013
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Phyllis moved to the Jewish Home about two years ago. Living alone in a small apartment, with no means of transportation, her move to the Home was one of the best decisions she ever made. Between the friends she’s made, the artistic talents she’s pursued, and the security she has knowing the senior services she needs is right here, Phyllis is healthier and happier than she has been in years.
Jewish Mothers — What’s New?
01.05.2012
Who better to give excellent advice than a Jewish mother? Answer: a Jewish grandmother!
For Mother’s Day, we asked residents at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for their wisdom about life, love, happiness, success, and — of course — food.
Happy Mother’s Day!
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Confessions of a Jewish Mother: How My Son Ruined My Life!
02.04.2010
Read a book excerpt about Selma! — http://tinyurl.com/HuffPo-Baraz-Awake…
Awakening Joy Course and Book Preview:
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Jokes from Jewish Home Residents – Chickens
15.11.2011
Kosher butcher shops tend to close just before sundown on Friday nights, in preparation for the Sabbath. Los Angeles Jewish Home resident Joe Weinbaum, 91, tells the one about a customer’s visit just before closing time.
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VOICES: The Rebbe and the Scientist: Looking for Life on Mars
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Finding meaning |
Finding meaningPosted: 28 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST
Upon my return home, a woman seeks me out with burning questions about Jewish beliefs around death and dying, burial practices, the afterlife. We have a long conversation in my office and agree to meet again. Within days of that meeting, a man seeks me out to talk about illness, end-of-life issues, creating programs to help adult children speak (and listen) clearly to the wishes of their aging parents. We, too, agree to meet again. The human mind seeks to make meaning. Give us a handful of stars in the night sky, and our brains sketch them into the shape of a constellation. Give me three disconnected encounters with questions of aging, dying, and what comes after, and my mind wants to turn them into a pattern. Does it “mean something” that this theme keeps cropping up in my January? Maybe this is just a reminder that this is a need which people have, these are conversations which people both fear and crave. Maybe it’s just a happy coincidence that I learned about a new resource to share, just before I met someone with whom I wanted to share it. These are disconnected events; they have nothing to do with each other. And maybe the people who brought these questions into my life this month are messengers whose presence is meant to awaken and attune me to these questions. That’s what angels are, in the early parts of Torah: messengers sent by God. They look like ordinary people, but they bring awareness of something that someone needs to know or learn. Both of those can be true at the same time. Anyone I meet can be a messenger if I’m open to finding a deeper message in our encounter. What looks like happenstance to you might look like a holy encounter to me (or: what I experience as happenstance on one day might feel to me like a holy encounter on another day.) Neither of those interpretations has to trump the other. The stars of the Big Dipper take on a shape because we see the shape in them. So do moments in a life. Connections and coincidences flare brightly because we notice them and draw lines to connect them. What meaning will I make from the shape which is coalescing here? |
PARENTING: My Week Without a Cell Phone
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Jonathan Pollard & Americaby David Suissa
Pollard should have been released years ago because discrimination and unfairness are anti-American ideas.
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3 Things I Wish I Knew when I was Datingby Aleeza Ben Shalom
I would have appreciated a heads-up on a few things. What wisdom do you have to share?
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Soul Control, Part 2: Getting Approvalby Dr. David Lieberman
The more self-esteem, the less ego.
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Video: Becoming a Leviby Mrs. Lori Palatnik
The Jewish people need teachers with passion. What are you waiting for?
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Going Citrusby Elizabeth Kurtz
Grapefruits, oranges and lemons, oh my! Recipes that celebrate wonderful, fresh, and zesty citrus flavors.
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Upcoming highlights of the SD Jewish Film Festival San Diego Jewish World SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 24th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will open February 6-16, 2014. Sponsored by … See all stories on this topic » |
Nearly half the Israeli parliament marks Holocaust remembrance day at Auschwitz Jewish Telegraphic Agency OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — Watching thousands of Poles dance to Klezmer music just 50 miles from the Auschwitz death camp, Johnny Daniels could feel an ambitious plan taking shape. The experience last year at Krakow’s annual Jewish Culture Festival … See all stories on this topic » |
‘The Monuments Men’ Shows How America Saved Paintings While Letting Jews … Tablet Magazine Shortly after the Bermuda meetings ended, the New York Times published an editorial titled “Europe’s Imperiled Art.” The newspaper, which showed little interest in the fate of Europe’s imperiled Jews, urged strong government action to rescue “cultural … See all stories on this topic » |
Shalom, Paraguay: A Jewish Culture Guide Shalom Life World cities, provincial towns, and even the most unassuming of suburbs are infused with Jewish history and culture, some of which is waiting to be discovered. For the pious follower, the curious traveler, or the intrepid adventurer, we’ll unearth the … See all stories on this topic » |
RIP, Pete Seeger The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. Rabbi Michael Lerner, in the first of what surely will be many Jewish remembrances to come forth in the coming days, recalled when Seeger offered to perform at the first Tikkun conference in 1988. “Seeger understood that the kind of Judaism we espoused … See all stories on this topic » |
Memories of Cuba: Trip Explored a Vibrant History, Culture Boulder Jewish News In 1959, when Castro came to power, there were 15,000 Jews in Cuba enjoying a comfortable life free of anti-Semitism. After Castro began confiscating private businesses and residences, a mass migration began, leaving only 1,500 Jews behind. It is that … See all stories on this topic » |
Watch: Scarlett Johansson’s SodaStream Super Bowl ad The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. Forget the debate over whether or not it’s okay to represent a company with a factory in the West Bank, or whether or not Oxfam should ditch her, though. That’s all just fluff. The real controversy, it turns out, stems from four words the Jewish … See all stories on this topic » |