| Briefs: Gore, Oz among Dan Prize winners; Dems dis Lieberman
Rabbi David Halivni won the Israel Prize for Talmud. Halivni, who made aliyah in 2005, wrote a seven-volume commentary on the Talmud. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University, and was a professor for many years at Columbia University in New York. The founder of the Union for Traditional Judaism, a transdenominational religious organization that has attracted thousands of Orthodox and traditionally observant Jews, Halivni was born in Ukraine in 1927 and was ordained at the age of 15. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. The Israel Prize, the highest honor in Israel, will be awarded on Israel Independence Day, observed this year on May 8.
Gore, Oz Among Dan Prize winners
Al Gore, Tom Stoppard and Amoz Oz are among the 2008 Dan David Prize winners.
Messages in movies not always negative
School shootings and crimes committed by young people are once again in the news. What are the causes of such tragedies? For years, there has been a national debate on the role popular culture plays, and Hollywood is generally cast as the villain. Parents worry that movies, often filled with sex and violence, have a negative effect on kids. Yet there are wonderful films currently in theaters or available on DVD that teach good values, inspire and enrich our lives. In honor of tonight's 80th Academy Awards, we pay tribute to these movies. We asked prominent local residents to tell us which ones they recommend parents share with their children. - Brian Bemel of Ojai is founder and artistic director of Performances to Grow On, an Ojai-based nonprofit organization that produces a variety of events for adults, children and families; Bemel is the father of an adult daughter and son.
Scam alert: E-mail valentines can be more like bad Halloween tricks
Don't click on the electronic versions of Valentine's Day cards where an e-mail directs the recipient to click on a link to retrieve the e-card. Once the user clicks on the link, malware is downloaded to the computer and causes it to become infected. Dale's low-tech translation: The greeting is a nasty digital disease that will wreak havoc on your computer. No matter how tempting, don't open that e-card or click that link.Once the 'disease' is in your computer, the machine turns on you like a scorned lover, spitting out spam, stealing your identity and looking for ways to spread the disease to other computers. If the card is from a name and e-mail address you know, first call the person and ask whether they sent you an e-greeting. Verify the provider and be sure your firewall, spam and virus filter software are up to date.It is enough to make you wish for the elementary school days of pink and white heart-shaped chalk - I mean candy - with cute little sayings that make girls giggle and boys say, "Gross!"ARROW THROUGH THE WALLETTwenty-eight thousand singles call Boise home.
McCain’s life experiences will suit road ahead
John McCain was not my first choice. Or even the second or third. He'd be far more appealing with a Southern conservative as a running mate — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, or Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, to name three. But conservative running mate or not, Mitt Romney's class-act exit leaves McCain without serious challenge for the nomination. And as both Romney and McCain noted in same-day speeches to the Conservative Political Action Conference, this election is not about shades of gray. "Elections in this country are fought within margins of small differences," said McCain. "This one will not be. We are arguing about hugely consequential things." Romney's departing words defined the immediate course for conservatives.
Scrubs Meets Stork
Paging, Dr. Cox. You have a very special delivery. Scrubs star John C. McGinley and his yoga-instructor wife, Nichole Kessler, welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, on Saturday. Billie Grace McGinley made her grand entrance at 1:36 a.m. in a birthing tub at the twosome's Malibu home with the aid of a midwife. The newborn weighed in at eight pounds and spanned 21 inches. "Nichole was a mountain lion, a warrior in the birthing process," McGinley told People, which first reported the news. "The birth was astonishing! Mom and baby girl are 100 percent. Billie is a mini-Nichole! Thank God!" Said Kessler: "We are all happy and healthy at home and enjoying these precious first moments of life together." The couple wed in a private ceremony last April in Malibu before a small group of family and friends.
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