Boycotting the boycotters: California’s legislature set to lead the way?
December 16, 2015
Dear businesses: If you boycott Israel, California will boycott you.
Jared Sichel
The Forward’s CEO salary survey: Good statistics, questionable economics
December 15, 2015
Are the salaries of Jewish nonprofit CEOs too high, too low or just right? Is there gender discrimination when it comes to the salaries of female CEOs of Jewish nonprofits?
At two Inland Empire Mosques, Muslims shocked by attack, disgusted by ISIS
December 8, 2015
For the last two years, multiple times each week, Gasser Shehata prayed around lunchtime at the same San Bernardino mosque as Syed Rizwan Farook, the 28-year-old Muslim who, with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, recently carried out the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Nicholas Thalasinos, a ‘Messianic Jew,’ among 14 murdered in San Bernardino terror attack
December 3, 2015
Among the fatalities in the deadly attack on the social services center in San Bernardino Wednesday that left 14 people dead and 21 wounded is Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, a \”Messianic Jew\” who worked at the Inland Regional Center, a county facility that assists people with developmental disabilities, as an environmental health specialist.
New ADL Chief says Europe and campuses keep him up at night
December 2, 2015
“It’s not about filling Abe’s shoes,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, 44, who took over as national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in July, assuming the high-profile role filled by Abraham Foxman for the past 28 years until his retirement.
How this rabbi with ALS uses his disease as a ‘mission to uplift’
December 2, 2015
Yitzi Hurwitz has plenty of reasons not to have a sense of humor.
How one man’s funny business is fueling the growth of streaming comedy specials
November 24, 2015
“I just beg people. All day, all day,” Brian Volk-Weiss said only half-jokingly, as he hung up a phone that rang just as he began to describe what it’s like being one of America’s most influential (not his words) executives in the big — and growing bigger — arena of streaming stand-up comedy specials.
U.S. teen’s murder in Israel ripples among L.A. parents
November 24, 2015
When Leat Silvera wakes up in the morning and sees alerts on her Facebook news feed for terror attacks in Israel — which is 10 time zones away — she quickly looks for words such as “Alon Shvut” or “Gush Etzion,” the area of the West Bank south of Jerusalem where her 18-year-old son, Joshua, is spending a year studying at Yeshivat Har Etzion before college.
Marvin Markowitz: Knocked down, but standing taller than ever
November 18, 2015
In the middle of a water physical therapy session, Marvin Markowitz, a 65-year-old businessman and passionate Los Angeles philanthropist, telephoned to explain what forced him, 15 months ago, to add rigorous, daily physical therapy to a schedule that already includes running a famous deli, real estate across Los Angeles and an events venue in Pico-Robertson.
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