At President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress a week ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sat in an honored seat near first lady Michelle Obama.
We are often told, mostly by anti-Israel propagandists, that the early Zionists\’ attitude toward the indigenous Arab population in Palestine was laden with ignorance, naivete, denial, contempt, abuse and outright oppression. Afif Safieh, the PLO representative to the United States, tells audiences on campus after campus: \”[Palestinians] have suffered three successive denials — a denial of their mere physical existence, a denial of their national rights and, the most morally disturbing, a denied recognition of their pain and suffering.\”
Our communities\’ leadership has to absorb the reality that the next generation of open-minded young people sees diversity as a plus, not as a burden to be overcome.
In defending middle-class neighborhoods, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky is taking on an issue that reaches to the heart of Los Angeles\’ ethnic, political and class divide
There\’s a controversy that has bubbled up in the Jewish world today around this question: Is it good for Israel when Jews go public with harsh criticism of Israel?
The gang violence that has recently wracked parts of Los Angeles compels me to ask this question: Where are all the Jewish gangs?\n\nI\’m not being cute.
It\’s my opinion that none of us who are single at 40 are rocket scientists at love (or we wouldn\’t be so uncomfortably solitary in the first place), so drawing the weird requires a little seaside introspection, a new charting of the waves and a definite refocusing of the ship\’s trajectory.
This is the second year The Jewish Journal has compiled a list of our \”Top Ten Mensches.\” Let other magazines slobber over the 50 Sexiest or the 400 Richest or the 20 Most Influential. Rich, sexy and powerful are easy. Mensch is hard.
Write a factually sloppy, unfairly partisan polemic about a complex and sensitive issue and you get just what you\’d expect: controversy at every whistle stop, major face time with Larry King and a book that shoots up the best-seller list.
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