Eitan Arom is a Jewish Journal senior writer, covering a range of local Jewish issues such as civic engagement, culture, Holocaust memory, faith-based activism, politics and people. Before that, he worked as a freelance journalist in Jerusalem, Washington D.C and Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA with bachelor's degrees in mathematics/economics and communication studies.
Standing in the Western Wall plaza at the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City, Alex and Bianca Ross discussed the religious and spiritual roller coaster that brought them there.
At least in my world, it seemed the hackneyed Jewish conspiracy theories of yesteryear had finally died an undignified and well-deserved death.
There was no doubt in his mind about what to do when Rabbi Eli Friedman saw flames he estimated to be 30 or 40 feet high barreling down the hill behind Chabad of Calabasas on the afternoon of June 4: Even though it was Shabbat, he and his family piled into their car and drove away.
Until January, Henry Stern, 34, a top staffer for termed-out state Sen. Fran Pavley, appeared to be a lock to replace her: He had an impressive war chest and endorsements from a laundry list of elected leaders.
Onstage in Carson, Calif., a working-class city south of downtown Los Angeles, Bernie Sanders was just getting warmed up when the crowd interrupted him with a chant: “Bernie or bust!”
For decades, it seemed that the visuals of Nazi propaganda — replete with hunch-backed, leering, long-nosed Chasidic Jews — had vanished. Then came the internet.
When Ellen Geer decided to stage an adaptation set in East Jerusalem of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, the Topanga Canyon-based theater company she runs, she understood it to be a political choice as well as an artistic one.
Shortly after she moved to Los Angeles three years ago, Tamar Schneider Levin, 78, found herself in a lecture at UCLA about Yiddish writers in Venice, Calif., in the early 20th century.
The crowd that gathered on May 13 at the corner of Los Angeles and Ninth streets to dedicate the intersection as “Stanley Hirsh Square” was as wide-ranging as the legacy of the man himself.
As Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon represents the Jewish state in an international body many Jews regard with distrust, or worse.
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