Michael Berenbaum
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
Howard David Pilch, attorney and Jewish philanthropist, dies at 69
Howard David Pilch, of Beverly Hills, passed away at the age of 69 on Tuesday, Aug. 30. He was a former President of Temple Beth Am and a prominent Jewish philanthropist.
With gratitude toward Donald Trump
No one compares to Adolf Hitler. He was incomparably evil. Nothing in American politics compares to Nazism. Nothing, not now – and hopefully never!
With gratitude toward Donald Trump
No one compares to Adolf Hitler. He was incomparably evil. Nothing in American politics compares to Nazism. Nothing, not now – and hopefully never!
Elie Wiesel, the moral force who made sure we will never forget the evil of the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel, the world’s best-known and most-influential Holocaust survivor, is no longer.
Jews could laugh everywhere, even in the Holocaust
Chaya Ostrower, “It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust,” Translated by Sandy Bloom. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2014) pp. 439.
Marjorie Pressman, rebbetzin and philanthropist, 94
Marjorie Pressman, a notable communal leader and rebbetzin par excellence of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles, where her husband, Rabbi Jacob Pressman, served as rabbi from 1950-1985, died at home April 4 after a period of declining health. She was 94.
Remembering the November 1938 pogroms known as ‘Kristallnacht’
Nov. 9, 2015, marks the 77th anniversary of the 1938 pogroms launched throughout Germany, a nation that, after March 1938, also included Austria.
Hitler needed plenty of help to kill the Jews – but no inspiration
In a speech to the World Zionist Congress, on Tuesday October 20, 2015, the Prime Minister of Israel said:
Rabbi Jacob Pressman, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am, dies at 95
Rabbi Jacob Pressman, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Am for 35 years, community leader and civil rights activist, died peacefully at his home on Thursday morning, Oct. 1.
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