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Haley has the skills and possibly the support base to mount a credible and perhaps competitive underdog campaign.

During this month of Adar, we read the parshiyot about building the Mishkan, and we are challenged to reflect on what it means to make space for the Divine in this broken world.

Purim is lifted by the rabbis to an exalted place, “Purim will never be abolished.” It is the one holiday that will exist for all time.

I enjoyed Purim because we’d receive mishloach manot, the goody bags filled with homemade hamantaschen, candies, fruits and snacks that our friends would leave on our doorstep.

Why are all these Jewish cemeteries next to freeways? 

Those of us who still read the Los Angeles Times woke up to quite a shock last Saturday morning.

Whether one is observing the right or the left in Israel, references to Herzl are ubiquitous. Both political camps in Israel fashion the founder of the country as their spiritual leader, claiming ideological ownership of his likeness to advance their own agenda.

It turns out that in-store shopping is not the fun it once was.