If you care about Israel, you have one very clear assignment over the next two months. In about eight weeks, the U.N. Security Council could vote on whether to recognize Palestinian statehood.
Some big Jewish ideas really get around. Over the past year, New York Times columnist David Brooks devoted one column to the value of Torah study, another to the big idea behind the word haimish. His colleague Roger Cohen weighed in on Aug. 11 with a column on Jewish identity, which was, improbably, also the focus of the season opener of “The Good Wife.”
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Patrick Goldstein writes “The Big Picture,” a column for the Los Angeles Times.
The threatened U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood has pundits and politicians apoplectic.
When I was in New York last week, I prowled Ground Zero.
I asked Aatekah Ahhmad Mir, a journalist from Lahore, Pakistan, and Emal Naweed Haidary, a journalist from Kabul, Afghanistan, what sights they wanted to see while in Los Angeles.
A journalist with family in Syria told me there’s a joke going around that country these days.
Here’s the dirty little secret about organized Jewish life in Los Angeles: We literally don’t know who we are.
If Republicans want a primer on how to keep losing the Jewish vote, all they have to do is look at what happened in Washington this past week.
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