BREAKING NEWS....We are pleased to announce that Cantor Paul Dorman has returned from a year's sabbatical and will join Cantor Elizabeth Cohn, Nolan Porter , Patrice Zappa Porter and Chelsea Cutler in a special Shabbat service this Friday Evening dedicated to Mothers Day.

If there is anyone with a memory or story about your blessed mother, please email your sentiments before Friday to info@creativeartstemple. I will be proud to read your input at services. Only positive memories....please.

As for my mother Edna ...she was the quintessential mother who loved to extol the brilliance and positive virtues of her two sons, Irwin and Jerry. Needless to write that there wasn't too much to say as she had two mischievous children whose virtues weren't many and forget about their brilliance. So, her expressions of pride were mainly reserved for her husband, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Cutler and his accomplishments. Early on she would talk about my brother's appendix operation and my broken hand both attended to by her brother, Dr. Louis Glickman....at which time, she would segue into my uncle's accomplishments.

When Irwin and I were accepted at NYU, forget about it. She never wavered during a conversation to tell the person about her two brilliant children, both off whom were attending the prestigious University. And, when I was asked to join the faculty and my brother took a pulpit in Colorado Springs, her joy as a mother was never ending. Conversations with her friends were now peppered with our accomplishments - and those of her husband Abe were added only after she exhausted our deeds.

There is a special feeling of gratitude as I look back and think of my mother's praise....especially after we gave her such a difficult time trying to rein in two rambunctious and rotten kids especially when we were in our early and informative (when we discovered women) years. Even in those crazy growing up years we loved her.... how much more now that I reflect on what she had to endure and overcome without once losing her grace and striking beauty.

Happy Mothers Day Mom and a Happy and kvelling day to all of our sacred CAT mothers.

Los Angeles County's  median home price was $585,000 in March-an all-time record, according to real estate tracker  CoreLogic. That figure includes both singe-family residences and condos, which tend to be significantly less expensive.

Single-family homes sold for a median price of $620,000, while condos fetched $500,000. Both numbers were at least 8 percent higher than the corresponding medians in March of last year.

Obviously, though, prices are very  neighborhood dependent. In some parts of LA, that amount of money could go much further; in others, you'd be lucky to get a  tiny bungalow.