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Jonah Lowenfeld

Miracle in the Mojave

November 24, 2010

Ed Rosenthal didn’t mince words when he told members of the press about his rescue after spending six days in the Mojave Desert without food or water. “It was a miracle,” he said. “I’m much more religious now than I was.” The 64-year-old recreational hiker took off on a two-hour hike in Joshua Tree National Park on Sept. 24 but lost his way on a trail he’d done several times before. When he was found alive and relatively healthy by a sheriff’s helicopter on Sept. 30, his story quickly made national and international news.

Dissecting Palestinian opinion polls

November 23, 2010

A recent poll conducted in the West Bank and Gaza found that a majority of Palestinians support direct peace negotiations with Israel and a two-state solution to the conflict, but that most would prefer a single Palestinian state to any two-state solution. Conducted in early October by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a leading polling firm based in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by the Israel Project, a nonprofit education organization, pollsters interviewed 854 Palestinians face to face in the West Bank and Gaza. Questions were asked in Arabic and covered a variety of topics, including support for Hamas and Fatah, feelings toward Iran and its president, and an assessment of what the priorities of the Palestinian Authority (PA) should be.

College Essay: Finding the ‘why’ makes it your own

November 23, 2010

As the director of academic and college guidance at YULA Girls High School, Jessica Pashkow has been helping this year’s seniors and their parents through the college application process for the better part of the past year. And with deadlines looming in the coming weeks and months, essays are at the forefront of many of the students’ minds. The dreaded personal statement: Students have just 500 words, sometimes 1,000, to stand out among thousands — often tens of thousands — of applicants. And when it comes to Pashkow’s students, based on their experiences alone, it can be hard to distinguish them from one another.

Poll: Most Palestinians support direct negotiations with Israel

November 19, 2010

A poll of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza conducted last month by a research firm for the Israel Project, a nonprofit education organization, found that a majority of Palestinians support direct peace negotiations with Israel and a two-state solution to the conflict.

It’s not just about Jews in journalist’s ‘Tenth Parallel’

November 17, 2010

With the news that two bombs sent from Yemen were addressed to Jewish communal organizations in Chicago, it would be easy to imagine that Jews are uniquely positioned in the crosshairs of a global movement of radical Islam. And with newspaper headlines about Israel following every shift in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on whether to reinstate a freeze on Israeli settlement building in what is to be the territory of a future Palestinian state, one might think that Israel and the Palestinians are at the center of the global Islamic consciousness.

Carnival closes Pico Boulevard

November 17, 2010

The Los Angeles Police Department-sponsored carnival that took over three blocks of Pico Boulevard Nov. 12-14 got an enthusiastic reception from local Jewish parents. The reaction from businesses on those blocks was decidedly more mixed, particularly from those under Jewish ownership.

Pro-Israel, pro-peaceniks launch J Street Los Angeles ‘Local’

November 17, 2010

On Nov. 11, in an event that felt like a combination political rally, cocktail party and parlor meeting, about 200 Angelenos and a number of local elected officials gathered at the Taglyan Cultural Center in Hollywood to launch the local Los Angeles chapter of J Street.

Celebrating 25 Years of keeping Jews Jewish

November 10, 2010

On Nov. 2, Jews for Judaism, an organization dedicated to counteracting missionaries, celebrated its 25th anniversary. Some 250 people gathered for a gala dinner at the Sephardic Temple in Westwood to honor the organization’s founder and director, Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz, and his wife, Dvora Kravitz.

Valley Jewish war vets fight an old enemy on the home front: Invisibility

November 10, 2010

They fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They served in the United States Army, Navy and the Army Air Corps — the precursor to the Air Force. A few flew through anti-aircraft fire over Nazi Germany, another marched over mountains during the coldest winter of the Korean War. One even watched the Bay of Pigs Invasion from the deck of a disguised aircraft carrier floating “spitting distance” from the shores of Cuba.

Jerry B. Epstein: Developer, philanthropist, irrepressible adviser

November 10, 2010

Jerry B. Epstein is probably best-known as the developer of two apartment complexes in Marina del Rey. He and his wife also have long been very generous supporters of Saint John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica. But as much money as Epstein has donated to his favored causes, which also include AIPAC and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, some of his most notable contributions can’t be totaled up in dollars and cents. That’s because Epstein, 87, has made something of a second, unpaid career out of offering advice on every topic under the sun, even when some of it is unwelcome.

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