Rabbi finds a higher calling in L.A.’s homeless population
Bill Boyarsky
September 24, 2015
Rabbi Marvin Gross’ congregants include Los Angeles County’s poorest, most neglected and most scorned — the homeless.
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How Rep. Adam Schiff weighs the Iran pact vote
Bill Boyarsky
July 29, 2015
As he prepares to decide on the Iran nuclear deal, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) talks to advocates on both sides of the controversy.
LAUSD Mandarin immersion program expansion sparks backlash
Bill Boyarsky
June 24, 2015
\”It’s really been an L.A. story,” said Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board member Steve Zimmer, who is in the middle of a classic Los Angeles conflict that reflects the city’s many cultures and tensions.
Wanted: More women in Los Angeles City Hall
Bill Boyarsky
May 27, 2015
What Los Angeles City Hall needs is a strong Jewish woman.
Another Successful Chapter in Book Festival Legacy
Bill Boyarsky
April 23, 2015
We Jews like to be called “People of the Book.” Although I didn’t take a census or a poll, I imagine there were many of us in the big crowds on the USC campus for the 20th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books last weekend.
Schiff ponders the lure of the senate seat
Bill Boyarsky
March 25, 2015
Rep. Adam Schiff is facing hard choices these days.
Why not support President Obama?
Bill Boyarsky
February 25, 2015
Why should I, a liberal in the bluest of cities in California, the bluest of states — where President Barack Obama now has a 57 percent approval rating — be subject to the whims of the pro-Republican prime minister of Israel?
Improving the aging experience: completing life’s story
Bill Boyarsky
January 28, 2015
My interest in the active aged has been stimulated recently by hanging out with several of them and reading Dr. Atul Gawande’s powerful book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.\”
Congressional candidate Ted Lieu on fight against ISIS
Bill Boyarsky
October 29, 2014
When I sat down with Democratic Congressional candidate Ted Lieu to talk about Iraq, the situation hadn’t improved since I discussed it a month before with Lieu’s opponent, Republican Elan Carr. The militant terrorist group known as ISIS continues to advance, while the Iraqi army remains impotent.
Elan Carr hesitant to support sending U.S. troops back to Iraq
Bill Boyarsky
September 23, 2014
I happened to interview Elan Carr, a Republican congressional candidate with substantial Middle East experience, on a day that may be remembered as noteworthy in the latest American attempt to defeat terrorism in that tormented region.
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