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Tag Archives: Hillel
How Many Troubled Kids Can A School Take In Before It Is A Troubled School?
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy is the only Orthodox elementary school in Los Angeles who admits troubled kids. Other yeshivos don’t want the aggravation. So let’s say you let in a hyper-active kid who creates a lot of tsures (trouble). What … Continue reading
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Rabbis At An Exhibition
In a 1996 lecture on Exodus 20, Dennis Prager says: There was a great hesitation to use art for anything but worshipping God [in the Jewish tradition]. The rabbis didn’t sit down, generally speaking, and paint. We didn’t have Hillel … Continue reading
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Tuition At Milken Community High School Reaches $30,000 A Year
That’s $2,000 a year more than Harvard Westlake charges. Milken has two Orthodox teachers and about six students from Orthodox homes (as well as a few traditional Sephardic kids) who tend to become less Orthodox the more time they spend … Continue reading
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Tagged harvard westlake, hebrew academy, Hillel, milken community high school
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Like Father, Like Son
Many of the contentious issues Morey Levovitz had at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy his late father Abe had at Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. Abe had a much more successful reign, however. Abe ran Maimonides for decades. Morey got pushed … Continue reading
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Hillel Bylaws Up For Vote
I hear Harkham Hillel’s religious dean Rabbi Boruch Sufrin, Morey Levovitz and current puppet president Fallas are being targeted by current and former employees for work related harrassment issues. For the upcoming vote on the bylaws board and executive board … Continue reading
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Tagged allegations, black eye, boatload, boruch, bylaws, eggs, emailed, fallas, harassment, harkham, harrassment issues, headache, Hillel, improvements, morey, omelette, puppet, rabbi, rsquo, secret nothing
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Emma And I Are Getting Married At Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrow
I promised her a beach wedding and there were no shuls handy! From my live cam chat: DavidLazar: getting ready to graduate DavidLazar: what’s new with you? YourMoralLeader: mazal tov YourMoralLeader: what will you do next? DavidLazar: thanks YourMoralLeader: just … Continue reading
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Tagged beach wedding, devorah, emma ford, eww, feller, fords, frick, heavy burden, hebrew name, Hillel, live cam chat, love life, malibu, mazal tov, moral leadership, older men, seidler, wife emma, woot, yuck
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Got Kosher Files For Bankruptcy
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy sent out an email to parents today saying that Got Kosher (which serves Hillel’s lunch program) is filing chapter seven bankruptcy. Hillel’s rival business partners asked Hillel to choose between them and Hillel blew them both … Continue reading
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Purimpalooza V – Party at the Palace!
Jconnect LA invites you to travel with us to the Persian Empire in the year 370 BCE, to the palace of King Achashverosh, where we will relive the Purim story and become a part of history. This will be a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 tribes, achashverosh, costume contest, dietary laws, dj eric, eric rosen, Hillel, jconnect, jewlicious, legendary experience, light refreshments, megillah, meir panim, party at the palace, persian empire, pico blvd, Purim, purim story, purimpalooza, zoa
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A Hillel For Our Times
????? ????? Doron Maharta Z"L The oldest (age 26) among the 8 Yesivah student who were massacred last week at M’rkaz HaRav: He wanted to be a Rabbi and studied at M’rcaz HaRav any free moment he had from the army. … Continue reading
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Tagged ashdod, chassidim, code of jewish law, dish washer, ethiopians, frocks, gemara, gerrer, Hillel, kippot, martyr, mercaz harav, mess hall, Rabbis, rosh yeshiva, shabbat, shul, talmud, yeshiva students, yeshivas
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Man’s Search For Meaning
Dana Jennings writes for the NYT: As my 40s lengthened, I inexplicably became ravenous for wisdom and meaning. I devoured theological tomes — the works of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Catholic writer Thomas Merton come to mind — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th century, abraham joshua heschel, ancient sages, becoming a jew, catholic writer, celestial highway, cuts of steak, drone, flesh and blood, Hillel, little voice, new testament, nyt, protestantism, sacred texts, saints and martyrs, solace, starbucks, thomas merton, transcendence
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