Jared Sichel
Across L.A., Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Charedi, casts wide net
In his six-day visit to Los Angeles last week, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau made some unlikely stops.
Ellen Brooks: Lending a hand at Cedars-Sinai for 38 years
When Ellen Brooks retired in 1977 at the age of 34 from her job as a production assistant on the Warner Bros. lot, she was looking forward to spending some time traveling the country with her new husband, Dr. Philip Brooks, a gynecologist approaching his 50th anniversary at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
In apparent suicide, Levi Moscowitz found dead in Griffith Park
Levi Moscowitz, a young man who recently moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, was found dead Saturday morning, Jan. 3, in Griffith Park. He was 24.
Ben Schwartzman: Giving autistic kids a shot at a team sport
In early 2014, UCLA post-graduate education student Ben Schwartzman and his classmate and friend John Daniel were staring at their computer screens and robotically crunching numbers on Microsoft Excel when they both decided they needed a change.
After uproar, HarperCollins to remove atlases that omit Israel
After receiving sharp criticism for wiping any reference to Israel in atlases distributed to English-speaking schools in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East, a spokesperson for publishing giant HarperCollins wrote in an email to the Jewish Journal that the omission was a mistake and that all the books will be recalled and destroyed.
Man sentenced on sex offender charge
Levi Moscowitz, a 24-year-old man from Chicago now living in Los Angeles, pleaded no contest in late October to charges of arranging to meet a child this past February with the intention of committing sexual acts.
Finding the silver lining in another BDS loss
Although pro-Israel groups roundly condemned the most recent passage of an Israel divestment resolution in California — this time by UAW 2865, a union that represents 13,000 University of California graduate students — the actual results may depict a student body that tends less for or against Israel, and more toward a general apathy over the divestment debate that has played out on UC campuses over the last few years.
Alan Gross, ‘normalization’ of U.S.-Cuba relations and the American spy flying under the radar
The news on Dec. 17 about the sudden thaw in diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana was so surprising that we really won’t know for months — or years — what the impact will be.
Judge fines Chabad of Calif. $845,000, says group misused federal grant with ‘reckless disregard
A federal judge ruled last week that Chabad of California intentionally misused $272,495 in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants it received in 2009 and must pay $844,985 in penalties, a portion of which will go to whistleblowers who brought the suit against Chabad.
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