Ryan Torok

The 16 seniors profiled in these pages are inspiring examples of how to stay active and engaged as we age.

Wearing eyeglasses and carrying a leather briefcase, Rabbi John Rosove looks more like a museum curator than …

Kadima Day School, an independent, nonaffiliated prekindergarten-to-eighth-grade Jewish school in West Hills,…

Working with his lifelong business partners, the late brothers Nathan and David Shapell, who were also Webb's…

F or musician Craig Taubman, eclecticism has always been the name of the game. For more than 15 years, Taubma…

Every January, Harris Tulchin, a Los Angeles entertainment lawyer and producer, travels to Park City, Utah, t…

As the executive director of the Shalom Institute, a Jewish day camp and conference center in Malibu, Rabbi B…

Carved into the sidewalk outside Willy "Wil-Dog" Abers' front door in Silver Lake is "OZO," a large circle wi…

CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer, one of the world's most recognizable journalists, has personal and professional con…

The Oct. 1 mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, which left at least 59 people dead and 527…

For decades, Hall lived a double life: ebullient game show host and celebrity to millions by day, and, when n…

When Conan O'Brien announced in August he would be going to Israel, he suggested he might try to solve the Is…

At first glance, Michael Chusid's workshop looks like most any utility shed at the back of a house - a space …

In 1964, a Jewish music executive, Goddard Lieberson, then the president of Columbia Records, told his newest…

This is hardly the first time Adam Schiff has had Russia on his mind. Years ago, and long before he was elect…

A sign on a kitchen cabinet at the Beit Shemesh Home for Lone Soldiers explains color designations for meat, …

In March, Svetlana Rapoport became a bat mitzvah. Raised in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, whe…

Hurrying by the parking lot at the Lakeside Event Center in Las Vegas, Israel Meir Kin and his new wife, Dani…

On a recent weekend morning, sunlight lit up a band of eager workers in jeans and T-shirts who had ventured i…

An hour before the start of Jeff Garlin's recent stand-up show at Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood, a hu…

Comedy's living legends - like Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno and Richard Lewis - all started out, at …

"For me, the hook was working with kids," Nick Melvoin responded when asked why he decided to volunteer for C…

For three days over Halloween weekend, between 30,000 to 40,000 fans of the eclectic, free-form rock band Phi…

The coronavirus lockdown has tested everyone's resilience and ability to roll with the punches - physically, …