David Suissa is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewish world. David was born in Casablanca, Morocco, grew up in Montreal, and now lives in Los Angeles with his five children.
When I see the coarse arguments currently raging over the issue of same-sex marriage, I don\’t see any thoughtful or fascinating debates or any embracing of tension. I see two armies shooting at each other.
Back in 2002, when the Second Intifada was raging, she would regularly put on a hijab and attend Islamic conferences all over Southern California. She was there to document the hateful venom that often permeated these events, reporting her findings to private investigators of radical Islam in America.
I have a wish that our eloquent new president will have the audacity to tell the nation that, for most of us, 99 percent of our happiness is in our own hands.
If we conservatives believe in fairness, it\’s only fair that Democrats should get their turn at the wheel. We\’ve had our turn for eight long years — and we should fess up to the obvious: America has veered off course, and it\’s a lot worse off today than it was eight years ago
A young boy with a serious illness was a big football fan. So Grossman, Usdan and the staff made some calls and found someone to donate two Super Bowl tickets, and someone else to sponsor the trip. When the boy found out about the trip, his parents said it was \”the first time he smiled since getting his diagnosis.\”
After seven years of obsessing over security in the context of terrorism, we\’ve all been blindsided by a more pervasive form of terror: sudden financial insecurity.
Film directors call this end-of-day light the \”golden light.\” It\’s not the bright, naked light of the mid-day, nor the dramatic darkness of the night. It\’s the light that bridges those two worlds. Spiritually, it\’s the time when the past and the future caress each other — the day is still fresh in our mind, but we can feel the breath of the approaching night.
\”Not eating is not suffering,\” he said, \”it\’s elevating ourselves to a state of transcendence. The fast, on Yom Kippur, reminds us how little material we really need; that we can do with less meat, with less bread, with less of everything.\”
Most of us neglect what is arguably the most difficult and meaningful ritual at this time of year: Going to the people we\’ve hurt, recognizing our hurtful actions and asking for their forgiveness
Earlier this year, he called the office of the governor of Alaska to ask permission to shoot Sarah Palin for his new film, a documentary about powerful women of the world. Because he had spent a lot of time in Alaska, he\’d heard about the feisty Palin and thought she\’d be a natural.