Why Jews must stay in Europe
Rob Eshman
February 17, 2015
If, God forbid, some crazy Muslim were to shoot and kill a security guard outside a synagogue in Sherman Oaks, would you pack up and move to Israel?
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Chaos is my Heaven: Q-and-A with Itai Anghel
Rob Eshman
February 12, 2015
Rob Eshman: What year did you first meet Commander Media, the leader of the female militia you film in your documentary.
Itai Anghel: The brave Israeli interviewing ISIS, Kurdish fighters in Syria
Rob Eshman
February 12, 2015
Courage is a quality we value so highly we’re willing to pretend we have it.
Netanyahu: Call off the Congress play
Rob Eshman
February 4, 2015
Liberal Democrats are the soft underbelly of American support for Israel, and John Boehner and Benjamin Netanyahu just gave them a swift kick.
Drones, Jews and morality
Rob Eshman
January 28, 2015
My address to the first interreligious conference on the morality of drone warfare didn’t go over particularly well.
Alberto Nisman: The 86th victim of the Buenos Aires bombing
Rob Eshman
January 21, 2015
The murder this week of Alberto Nisman —and now even the Argentine president has acknowledged his death was no suicide — was every bit as shocking and anti-Semitic a crime as the attacks two weeks ago in Paris.
Nous Sommes Charlie: This week we are Jewish Hebdo
Rob Eshman
January 15, 2015
In 2008, I had a chance to make a statement in defense of satire, and I passed.
Gjusta and injustice in Los Angeles
Rob Eshman
January 7, 2015
To get to the newest, coolest food spot in Venice, you have to drive through the newest, saddest homeless encampment in L.A.
Prophets and mensches; Remembering Rabbi Schulweis and Rabbi Beerman
Rob Eshman
December 30, 2014
I’ve only fallen in love with two rabbis in my life. One I married. The other was Harold Schulweis.
Norman Lear on race in America, Judaism, World War II and his bright future
Rob Eshman
December 17, 2014
When I met Norman Lear at his spacious Beverly Hills office for an interview, he immediately told me, “The timing is good.” He didn’t say why — just that it has something to do with what he plans to do next.
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