Danielle Berrin
Israel’s foreign ministry director Dore Gold gets grilled in Los Angeles
While protests over Israel’s homegrown terrorism problem put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on the defensive at home, the Jewish state’s diplomatic corps went on a U.S. offensive to try to thwart approval of the pending Iran deal.
Hillside introduces eco-friendly burial option
As the gates opened recently to Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, the famed Jewish cemetery next to the 405 Freeway as renowned for its verdant lawns as its celebrity occupants, there appeared in almost every direction something sharply out of character: brown, withered lawns.
Jewish Women’s Conference allows women to let down their hair
The fourth annual Jewish Women’s Conference of Southern California, held March 1 at UCLA’s Covel Commons, proved a fertile testing ground for women’s issues today, drawing nearly 200 women of all ages and religious backgrounds to a daylong female-centric confab.
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