The event, “Briyut HaNefesh (Health of the Spirit): Mental Wellness Clergy Cohort,” was led by Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn of B’nai David-Judea Congregation 

Early on a typically noisy, traffic-heavy weekday afternoon along Pico Boulevard, one scene was certain to go unnoticed, as intended.

“I wanted answers since I was the only kid in class who had no father. I was curious.”

During their 45-minute discussion, the panelists concurred that the misunderstood, balky and complicated issue of student loan debt forgiveness should be a priority for Congress and influential Americans. 

Four left-leaning international scholars laid out potential solutions to “Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future? (Part One),” a forum jointly sponsored by UCLA and USC.

In recognition of the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, Israel’s first treaties with Arab governments in a quarter-century, the Consulate General of Israel brought the Jewish celebration to the campus of Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy.

Since the pandemic began, in the United States, more than 9,000 hate crimes have been reported against Asian Americans – two-thirds of them women – supposedly faulting them for COVID-19.

A true educator of young children understands what is happening inside of a child’s brain that really lays the foundation for a higher order of thinking for skills they will need later on.

For Jewish entrepreneurs such as Rabbi Shimon Kraft, last year’s timing of the onset of the pandemic—three weeks ahead of the heavy-selling holiday of Passover—was a gut punch.