Jewish Chat: Briefs: Fund-raiser wine tasting to be held
Village Voices to hold auditions/Radio personality to speak in Ventura/Officers' club offers scholarships/Program assists foster youths/Children's fund speaker available/Study seeks breast cancer patients/Friends offereing used textbooks/Jewish Academy to offer courses ventura county Fund-raiser wine tasting to be held The County Ventura Irish American Cultural Foundation will hold a wine tasting fund-raiser and silent auction at 7 p.m. Friday.The...
Jewish Chat: SPENDING AN AFTERNOON WITH THE 'QUEEN OF JEWISH SOUL'
MY FRIEND had suggested that we attend a concert put on by a mutual friend, with some woman from Germany. That was all I knew.What happened was amazing and astonishing -and fun. We were greeted by Irith Gabriely as we came into the hall of this retirement home where our host, Herb Gaynes, lived. She was dark, tall and handsome in an intense way. And she was charming in her friendliness. We were their audience, my friend and I, several other people who belonged to our organization, and...
Jewish Chat: VICKI LESSER, JEWISH EDUCATOR WHO OWNED STATIONERY STORE
Vicki Drucker Lesser, a businesswoman, a poet with perfect handwriting, and an educator and principal in the Jewish community, will be buried today in North Miami Beach.Mrs. Lesser died on Tuesday, three weeks after lapsing into coma after minor surgery, her husband said. She was 44. Mrs. Lesser was known to many Miami Dolphins and Florida Marlins players and residents of the Weston area for her customized poems, invitations and birth announcements. She owned and managed R.S.V.P. Initially...
Jewish Chat: Conejo Jewish Academy to offer classes
Conejo Jewish Academy will begin offering some of its courses and a study group in the Calabasas community beginning with the Academy's winter semester on Jan. 15.A six-part course titled "Toward a Meaningful Life" will be offered at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Jan. 15 at the Country Inn and Suite, 23627 Calabasas Road, Calabasas. The course explores how to lead a more fulfilling life based on the teachings of Judaism and Chassidism. There is no fee to...
Jewish Chat: SPENDING AN AFTERNOON WITH THE 'QUEEN OF JEWISH SOUL'
MY FRIEND had suggested that we attend a concert put on by a mutual friend, with some woman from Germany. That was all I knew.What happened was amazing and astonishing -and fun. We were greeted by Irith Gabriely as we came into the hall of this retirement home where our host, Herb Gaynes, lived. She was dark, tall and handsome in an intense way. And she was charming in her friendliness. We were their audience, my friend and I, several other people who belonged to our organization, and...