Beverly Center, the giant high-end mall from the days, long ago, when America was a mall culture, has a new skin, and a new look, that catches the light nicely. It doesn't matter. Malls are half-empty now. Many are gone. America moved on. Beverly Center is just spooky now. So is the neighborhood. It's full of oddities – and in the middle of it all there's the dramatic new Gindi Maimonides Academy with its bold colors and odd angles. Maimonides was that medieval Sephardic Jewish...
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Beverly Center, the giant high-end mall from the days, long ago, when America was a mall culture, has a new skin, and a new look, that catches the light nicely. It doesn't matter. Malls are half-empty now. Many are gone. America moved on. Beverly Center is just spooky now. So is the neighborhood. It's full of oddities – and in the middle of it all there's the dramatic new Gindi Maimonides Academy with its bold colors and odd angles. Maimonides was that medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most influential Torah scholars of the time, so he's here to balance things out – but that's impossible. ~ Thursday, September 13, 2018
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