Why Chanukah matters
December 12, 2014
There’s a certain narrative about Chanukah that has become near conventional wisdom among American Jews, and it goes like this:
Jared Sichel
Q&A with Yossi Klein Halevi: Jewish extremists endanger Israel’s control of Jerusalem
December 12, 2014
In 1972, when Yossi Klein Halevi began writing a book that 23 years later would become his “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist,” he was just 19 and allied with the extremist right wing of the Free Soviet Jewry movement.
Exodus at (Cedars-)Sinai
December 11, 2014
In 2003, when John T. Lange was hired as curator of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s vast contemporary art collection, one of his first tasks was to take inventory of the items in the collection’s storage room.
UC grad students endorse Israel divestment by 30 point margin
December 10, 2014
Another domino has fallen in California for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the passage of a divestment resolution sponsored by UAW 2865, a union that represents more than 13,000 University of California graduate students.
With pro-Israel groups all but absent, UCLA student government endorses divestment
November 19, 2014
Unlike in the previous attempt in February, which failed by two votes, the student government voted this time for divestment by a decisive 8-2 margin, adding UCLA to a small but growing list of universities where the elected, representative undergraduate body effectively endorsed the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to weaken Israel and promote the Palestinian cause via economic pressure.
Zim has not suspended operations in Long Beach, says BDS protestors have had no impact
November 19, 2014
On Wednesday morning a spokesman for Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. in Israel denied in an interview a previous report that that the shipping giant has suspended its operations in Long Beach and Oakland.
Kalman Levine: Born in Kansas City, transformed in L.A., murdered in Jerusalem
November 18, 2014
Rabbi Kalman Levine, born Cary Levine in Kansas City, Mo. on June 30, 1959, was murdered Tuesday morning in a terror attack at Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem. He was in the middle of the daily morning prayer service.
A man who in many ways came of age while living in Los Angeles as a young adult, Levine was killed by two young Palestinian men who also murdered three other worshippers and injured at least another 12 in the synagogue.
Q&A with Federation head Jay Sanderson
November 12, 2014
At the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly (GA), held this year in National Harbor, Md., Nov. 9-11, thousands of Jewish professional and lay leaders filled a conference center and hotel to listen to famous and powerful Jews, including two Supreme Court justices and the Israeli prime minister (via telecast), sit through breakout sessions and, most important, network with one another and share ideas that have been tested at Jewish Federations across the country.
Israeli shipping giant Zim suspends operations in Long Beach
November 12, 2014
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., Israel’s largest cargo shipping company, has temporarily suspended operations at the Port of Long Beach, according to an employee in Zim’s Long Beach office.
Israeli-American Council jumps onto national stage with a splash
November 11, 2014
At the Israeli-American Council’s (IAC) three-day inaugural conference in Washington, D.C., last weekend, nearly 800 attendees and Washington journalists witnessed the high-profile entrance on to the public stage of what was, until recently, a quietly expanding and well-funded Los Angeles group created with the comparably modest vision of providing educational, cultural and religious resources for Southern California’s large Israeli-American community.
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