Adi Jaffe, co-founder of Addiction Alternatives, joins the show to talk about moderation treatment, 12-step, and the distinction between harm reduction and abstention when it comes to treating addictions.
What are some of the more prominent Jewish thought-leaders in the conservative world doing about Donald Trump\’s candidacy?
Beit T’Shuvah’s 30th birthday is coming up, and one of the nation’s renowned residential addiction treatment centers is embarking on a new, if gradual, beginning.
Gary Steinberg, son of a Holocaust survivor, recently donated to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) signed copies of his father’s memoir.
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein joins Tribal to discuss the issues of the day facing young American Jews, his own unconventional path navigating the Jewish professional world and, of course … the Iran nuclear deal!
Three days before the beginning of Passover, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, a veteran mashgiach (kosher supervisor) for the Orthodox Union (OU), filed a lawsuit against Manischewitz and the OU, saying he can no longer stand behind the kosher status of the Manischewitz products he has supervised for 20 years, including its Passover matzos.
On April 12, Simone Zimmerman, a Los Angeles Jewish day school graduate and UC Berkeley alumna, was named head of Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, a dream job for a young, politically active, liberal American Jew.
Seder tables in Conservative Jewish homes may look different this Passover, and it’s not because of a new popular cookbook or changes to the haggadah.
For more than three months, a bill that would counter the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was stalled in California’s legislature.
In 1903, the Yiddish-language Forverts published a letter from a Russian immigrant, who’d written to say he didn’t understand the point of the game of baseball, the sport so beloved by all Americans.
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