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Unplug on Thanksgiving and interact in person, Offlining urges
L.A. Times Tech BlogOfflining Inc. wants you to unplug from the computer and reconnect to flesh-and-blood family and friends. Not all the time, just some of the time. Like, during major holidays. The company was created after co-founders Mark DiMassimo and Eric Yaverbaum,...... -
Ronni Chasen: Hollywood's ultimate old-school publicist
The Big PictureIf Hollywood had ever wanted to hire its own publicist to keep its public image untarnished and well-scrubbed, it would've been Ronni Chasen. The circumstances of her death early Tuesday -- she was found in her Mercedes in Beverly Hills,...... -
'Jews and Baseball': Ron Howard's a-ha moment with Sandy Koufax
The Big PictureAs a Jew who has been a baseball fan his entire life, I guess I'm the perfect target audience for "Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story," which opens Friday at the Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills and the...... -
Should Good Friday be a national holiday?
Change of SubjectThe folks at The Campaign to Commemorate Good Friday as a National Holiday say yes. I say no. I say we already have too many government-imposed holidays -- they're expensive and disruptive -- and adding another Christian holiday to the...... -
Around Town: Mea culpa, the weather is my fault
Sorry, Mel Gibson. I did it. The rain was my fault.
Scholars note that prayers for rain are among the earliest liturgical texts and that the Bible regards the withholding of rain as a punishment from God (cf. Deut. 11:11–17; I Kings 17:1)....Tags: Family, Mel Gibson, Rosh Hashanah, Religious Festivals, Judaism
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Book review: 'When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone' by Gal Beckerman
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhen They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry Gal Beckerman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 598 pp., $30 If you think the Cold War is dead as the backdrop for any decent espionage story, you haven't read "When They Come for...Tags: New York, Terrorism, Civil Unrest, Diplomacy, Meir Kahane
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Q & A: The eloquent conservative
Author and syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager is one of the better conversationalists you'd ever meet, but he pulls no punches for political correctness' sake.
"Ask me anything," he invites during an afternoon meal at Ichiban Japanese...Tags: Family, Social Sciences, Justice and Rights, Utah, Judaism
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Book review: 'To the End of the Land' by David Grossman
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTo the End of the Land A Novel David Grossman Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen Alfred A. Knopf: 582 pp., $27.95 From an American standpoint, the degree of moral authority conferred upon Israeli novelist David Grossman in his homeland can...Tags: Armed Forces, Weather, Judaism, Defense, Israel
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Best NY Bagels
Staff reporterTonight Jews all over the world are celebrating the joyous holiday of Sukkot. For many bagels are an icon of Eastern European Jewish culture dating back to the 16th century. But for us New Yorkers, bagels are an insitution that we can brag about as having...Tags: New York, Manhattan (New York City), Bagels, West Village, Lower East Side
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Cheshire Trial Halted Over Concern For Hayes; No Testimony Friday Because Of Yom Kippur
The medical condition of Steven Hayes prompted yet another delay in his trial Thursday, halting testimony and frustrating at least one family member.
Thomas J. Ullmann, a defense lawyer for Hayes, said the 47-year-old suspect in the killings of...Tags: Family, Crimes, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Mental Health, Cheshire
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Beverages and snacks after the Yom Kippur fast
![It's not often that one hears a Jewish person refer to Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, marked by repentence and fasting — as their favorite holiday, but for a good friend of mine living in Jaffa, Israel, Yom Kippur is top of the line. "It's almost like the world is on pause," she explains. "The silence is deafening. I don't think there's any other place in the world where everything stops completely just because it's a holiday; no cars on the roads, no planes in the sky, no open stores, no shopping. It's so quiet you can hear the birds singing all day."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56153198-15115154.jpg "It's not often that one hears a Jewish person refer to Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, marked by repentence and fasting — as their favorite holiday, but for a good friend of mine living in Jaffa, Israel, Yom Kippur is top of the line. "It's almost like the world is on pause,\" she explains. \"The silence is deafening. I don't think there's any other place in the world where everything stops completely just because it's a holiday; no cars on the roads, no planes in the sky, no open stores, no shopping. It's so quiet you can hear the birds singing all day.\"")
It's not often that one hears a Jewish person refer to Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement, marked by repentence and fasting — as their favorite holiday, but for a good friend of mine living in Jaffa, Israel, Yom Kippur is top of the line. "It's...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Honey, Bagels, Soups, Religious Festivals
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Recipe: Swedish potato and lox casserole
SWEDISH POTATO AND LOX CASSEROLE 8 white or red boiling potatoes (about 1 3/4 pounds), peeled 2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces, plus additional for greasing baking dish 8 large slices smoked salmon 1/2 small red onion, thinly sliced 2...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Onions, Butter, Recipes, Potatoes
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