About a decade ago, I was interviewing Professor Richard Hovannisian, the eminent UCLA authority on modern Armenian history.\n\nHe lamented the state of the Armenian Diaspora in Los Angeles, with its infighting and confrontations between church leaders, and its American-born generations forgetting the mother tongue and marrying out at an alarming rate.\n
Rabbi David J. Wolpe, along with his wife and 6-month-old daughter, arrived in Los Angeles from New York on June 30.
About the time one is tempted to feel a wee bit sorry for the Swiss over the barrage of flak they\’re now getting, along comes a new probe of the country\’s conduct during World War II to set the blood boiling again.
Members of a small and select club were remembered and honored on Monday with the opening of the exhibit \”Visas for Life: The Righteous Diplomats\” at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The Holocaust has been the professional focus of Dr. Michael Berenbaum\’s life for 30 of his 51 years — as student, teacher, scholar, author, journalist and administrator.
Few, other than historians of the period, will recognize July 12 as a date of any significance in the annals of European anti-Semitism.
As the decades pass, why does the Holocaust retain, and even expand, its grip on the consciousness of the world and of its scholars, writers and filmmakers?
The Jewish newspaper scene in Los Angeles was recently enlivened by the rise and fall of the short-lived \”Jewish Voice,\” and it is being invigorated again by the significant changes taking place in the local Hebrew-language press.
\”When I started this work two years ago, I was like a young child,\” says Cheli. \”Now, many times I feel like an old woman.\”
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